Week 53 - July 6, 2019

this week was crazy. we had the mission tour with the ocampos this week and it was really good but pretty exhausting hahah. Tuesday we went to mission, Mcallen, and hidalgo zones. the next day Brownsville and Harlingen. after that corpus Christi and robstown. while there we actually went to the horne road chapel which is where two of my uncle's were baptized. I took a pic in front of the font. after corpus we went to Laredo on the fourth of July. we ate some tacos and then went to the Laredo outlets with his family. pretty sick cuz we got to go to the mall on a Thursday ahaha. after that we had a pretty long meeting about transters . the next day we met with Laredo zone and then drove home. we finally got into our area for the last little while at 7:00 at night. probably one of my favorite things that happened this past week is we met a guy who was SUPER cool. let us in, asked perfect questions.. then all the sudden he was like "have you guys studied in the bible about the firmament?" and then proceeded to literally go insane about how the earth was flat and that we couldn't convince him he was wrong. it also rained hard a few days which was such a blessing here as it is so hot and dusty. i just was getting absolutely soaked and i loved it. today is our pday because on Monday we have transfers. it's been a really cool experience and has been different with the ocampos but it's a blessing! also some of my best friends in the mission are going home on Monday which is super weird like elder allen. life goes on though. I'm so thankful for my companion, he's just such a good guy and its crazy how much there is to learn from other people. definitely lots of learning experiences and honestly something im realizing is we can not expect perfection in this life. if you expect perfection you're never going to be happy, but we can try to be better every day and appreciate the little things. as we do that we'll be so much happier.

"we would do well to slow down a little, lift up our eyes, and see the things that matter most in life. pay attention to the divine things that matter most. diligently doing the things that matter most will lead us to the savior." -the boy Dieter F.

it's true though. focus on the simple important things, and little by little we will see big changes in our lives and ao much more happiness. its ALL about our perspective. love you guys!

elder freedman 

 
1 pic this week sorry - pila where my two uncle's got baptized