Well this week was a Rollercoaster.
This week flew and then conference hit. When you sit around as a missionary time goes so slow.. So these last two days of conference felt like two weeks honestly.
Conference was amazing but by the end we were a little sad. For those of you who don't know, I am serving in the Rio grande Valley, which is right along the south most Border of Texas and Mexico. All there is separating Texas and Mexico here is the Rio grande River and so it's super easy for people to cross here illegally. I've heard that 80% of those who live here are illegal immigrants. To get here is super easy, but if you go two hours north of here, there is something called a "checkpoint" which is basically like the REAL border. All of these people here can't get up north across the checkpoint to the temple and they can't go back to Mexico to go to the temple either. Actually there are two temples in Mexico here that are closer than the one in San Antonio for us. So basically, these people here and a lot of the converts who are some of the most faithful people I've met Literally can't make It to the temple because they're stuck between borders - even though they want to go so bad. Regardless, conference was Amazing and I loved the talks. You can just feel and tell that those men and women are God's chosen people to help lead the church. Conference is like Christmas for a missionary. Literally. It's better than any holiday.
Also, my mission president is lit.
In mcallen zone he's letting us watch 2 movies because the lord blessed us and helped us have some success last month. We're watching black panther and the new animated spider man. We're hyped!
This week was good though and we had some MIRACLES!
We literally taught probably the most amazing restoration lesson I've taught on my mission. We also have just been teaching some good people and have had the opportunity to set some baptismal dates with a few people! We will see what happens and what the lord has in store for them 😊
Other than that shoutout to my favorite dad in the world the BIG MAN BILL! APRIL 11TH is your bday! Call you then!
Also. Happy birthday to Andrew on the 13th. Sure love you bro. My Screensaver is a Pic of me and you back in the day balling up playing some lax. Can't wait for you to be out in the field with me real soon!
Love you guys so much!
Email me if you want!
Elder Freedman
This week flew and then conference hit. When you sit around as a missionary time goes so slow.. So these last two days of conference felt like two weeks honestly.
Conference was amazing but by the end we were a little sad. For those of you who don't know, I am serving in the Rio grande Valley, which is right along the south most Border of Texas and Mexico. All there is separating Texas and Mexico here is the Rio grande River and so it's super easy for people to cross here illegally. I've heard that 80% of those who live here are illegal immigrants. To get here is super easy, but if you go two hours north of here, there is something called a "checkpoint" which is basically like the REAL border. All of these people here can't get up north across the checkpoint to the temple and they can't go back to Mexico to go to the temple either. Actually there are two temples in Mexico here that are closer than the one in San Antonio for us. So basically, these people here and a lot of the converts who are some of the most faithful people I've met Literally can't make It to the temple because they're stuck between borders - even though they want to go so bad. Regardless, conference was Amazing and I loved the talks. You can just feel and tell that those men and women are God's chosen people to help lead the church. Conference is like Christmas for a missionary. Literally. It's better than any holiday.
Also, my mission president is lit.
In mcallen zone he's letting us watch 2 movies because the lord blessed us and helped us have some success last month. We're watching black panther and the new animated spider man. We're hyped!
This week was good though and we had some MIRACLES!
We literally taught probably the most amazing restoration lesson I've taught on my mission. We also have just been teaching some good people and have had the opportunity to set some baptismal dates with a few people! We will see what happens and what the lord has in store for them 😊
Other than that shoutout to my favorite dad in the world the BIG MAN BILL! APRIL 11TH is your bday! Call you then!
Also. Happy birthday to Andrew on the 13th. Sure love you bro. My Screensaver is a Pic of me and you back in the day balling up playing some lax. Can't wait for you to be out in the field with me real soon!
Love you guys so much!
Email me if you want!
Elder Freedman
Pic: Some movie sauce
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