This week I flooded the apartment building.... For the
whole week we had no water, it was actually ridiculous. Well, one night at 4 in the
morning I started hearing constant rings from the doorbell. I woke up and
looked out the window and just saw 4 mamas together at the bottom of the building. I
just ignored it and went back to bed. Well 6 am came around I started to just
do my exercise and then I get some knocks on our door. As I walked to the door
I started to notice the floor was super wet. I open the door find those same
mamas standing there just MAD. They started yelling at me and told me that I
flooded the building. I didn't really know what to say, my french isn't that
good yet, so I just stood there and got wrecked by all these mamas. From
what I got out of it they said water came on at 1 A.M. and we left our kitchen
faucet on so water just flooded our kitchen, which was true, the kitchen was
flooded. It then started going out the door which is right next to the
kitchen. The water ran down all the stairs and into the neighbors houses
flooding their living rooms and kitchens. I apparently broke someone's
suppressor too, which is no good... I spent the whole morning just cleaning
which honestly was the worst. I felt so bad and just felt SOOOOO white.
Everyone in the neighborhood heard about it and made sure to tell me too.
On a
more Gospel note... We had Zone Conference this week and it was awesome. Our
president talked a lot to us about being obedient because we love the Lord. As
some of you might know obedience is kind of a problem here so President Lewis
is really focusing on teaching us the importance of obedience. The things he
shared hit me. For me I feel like I have really been obedient because I want to
prove people wrong. My mindset has been, NO, I want to show that serving a
mission while being obedient is possible. But I think that's wrong. He taught
us that we should be obedient because we love the Savior. I really think that
if I am obedient because of my love for the Savior it'll have such a bigger
impact on me and other missionaries and the people here as well.
I was super
excited this week to fix a baptismal date with the Fr. Brice this week... but
when we showed up to his house this week we found a girl with him. The girl was
awfully young, maybe 17, and they claimed to be getting married. I couldn't
help but just feel so bad for this girl. She seemed super uncomfortable and
didn't really have a family to really support her or anything. Her family
was all in a village so he really is like her only hope. We tried to help but
they claimed that they both wanted to be doing it. Then Brice started to go all
pastor on us and started screaming deliverance speeches. It was really bizarre.
We are going to keep teaching him but it's been kinda interesting for
sure.
I was reading in Enos this week and one scripture really
stood out to me. I think it's verse 2 or 3 and Enos says that he was
pondering on how his father had told him how joyful the members of the church
are. I really love this church because it has made me happy and it's made my
family happy too. I know that anything that does engage in this gospel will
find so much joy in it. The way Jesus lived his life was with joy and anything
we do to get close to him will bring us joy!
I love you guys! Thanks for praying for me! We are all in
this awesome work together!
Bisou,
Elder Freedman
I love you guys as always, thanks for praying for me I
always need your prayers! I'm happy we can be in this together!
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