Merry Christmas everyone! It's fun just saying that because
honestly you don't hear it here at all. But that isn't necessarily a bad
thing. One of my favorite things about Christmas every year has always been the
Sunday before Christmas. I love the songs the Choir sings and just the Christmas
Spirit that I always feel when I'm there. I was super excited to see how they
did it here and listen to their Christmas songs. When we got there I bore my
testimony and centered it around Christ's birth so I definitely felt like
we got off to a good start. Then the next person got up and started talking and
just said nothing about it, the next person nothing, then the Bishop got up... I
was like ok here we go, Light the World, Bishop! And then he started talking
about Adam and Eve. I was like NOOOOOO hahaha. We had all of these
investigators there and we promised we were going to have a Christmas Sunday
and it was just not Christmassy at all. But it's all good, just thought it was
kinda funny.
The first week as Zone Leader was super exciting. I honestly just
feel like I'm learning so much. One day my companion just tells me I need to
prepare a Spiritual Thought for a meeting so then I have to go study some topic
and it's just extra reason to study and learn stuff and I really like that.
Also
this week we got to go to Dabou which is like an hour and a half outside of
Abidjan and it's more like a village. We have a District out there so we
went to do a district Council and that was really fun. This week we also had a
Christmas party as a mission and it was super fun. We did a nativity
reenactment as a Zone and at the end of it the night before the party my
companion decided we needed to sing a song... But it was literally like the end
of the night so we didn't know what we could do to sing. My companion
really likes this song on my MP3 player, it's called Far Away by National Lights, and so he asked me if I could sing it for the Christmas party in
front of everyone. I didn't want to say no; after all it's just another
opportunity. So I sang a solo in front of the mission. It may have been painful
for people to listen to but I thought it was kinda fun.
French is definitely the biggest struggle right now but
I think I'm pretty hard on myself too. I can teach and talk and my companion
says I'm actually pretty good. So I know that I'm getting it but I'm not totally
fluent yet. I love being Zone Leader though and getting to know other
missionaries and getting to be an example. I love that about it.
I hope all of you guys have the best week ever. Something I
haven't really thought about too much until I got here is the beauty of the
manger. When I think about the mission of the Savior and the manger they go
hand in hand. Everything he did on this earth was to understand us. he
was born in a manger to understand us. He was born in literally the worst
of the worst. And because of that he is Wonderful, he truly is the Prince of
peace, our Savior our Redeemer... the mighty God. I know that he was born and I
know that he lives. I know that there is peace in him and I know that he loves
us. I'm grateful for him and for this Christmas Season. I love the Christ.
I love you guys. I hope you all have a Merry Christmas!
Thanks for being in this work with me!
Bises,
Elder Freedman
Andrew's Companion Elder Cola from Haiti
There are many more trees and jungle in his new area
They recently opened the first KFC in the Ivory Coast very close to their apartment
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