Fr. Rodhes got baptized!!!! Wahoo! I was so happy for him!
Kinda funny because right before the baptism service the ward mission
leader started the conversation of how hard his life has been ever since his
baptism. Everyone in the ward started chiming in too and I was honestly worried
that Fr. Rodhes was going to back out right before the baptism but instead he
did something super cool. He just said, "hey guys yeah I know it'll be
hard but I've made my decision and I'm ready to follow Christ". I was like
wow you're such a beast, everyone got super quiet and after that we
honestly had a super good baptismal service. Another cool thing that happened
was with the Fr. Brice, when we started talking to us he told us that he
just sees something different in us. He feels like we are really sanctified and
different from the world. I've heard so many stories about other missionaries
having these kind of stories and it was cool to feel like whoa I'm like them
too. I'm not saying that to be prideful or anything I just think it's cool to
see that things that Jesus said about how "we will be lights to the
world" is true. After that we taught a super good lesson and he told us
that as long as we had piano he would come to church. (the africans love noise
at church). So I was super excited to finally see him there and made sure we
had piano, but then he didn't come. I honestly don't know what we will do with
him, but we will keep trying. We also set an ADBF for our friends, Sr. Sandrine
this week and that was really exciting. She's awesome because she always makes
us food whenever we are at her place. She makes really good futu banana
and all these crazy sauces to go along with it.
Water Update; Nothing changed.... Still no water. We had a
new American elder with us this week because his companion was sick and its
been fun to see his reaction to bagged water. I have definitely forgotten a little
bit just how abnormal it is to not have water. I have loved laughing about it
with him, it's been super refreshing.
Everything else is going well here. It feels like I just ran
over an accelerator power up on Mario kart and time is starting to go a
lot quicker.
I really like a scripture in D and C section 78 verse 18, it
says 18 And
ye cannot abear all
things now; nevertheless, be of good bcheer,
for I will clead you
along. The kingdom is yours and the blessings thereof are yours, and the driches of eeternity are
yours." I love how he says "for I will lead you along" Even when
times are hard I know that he will lead any of us along.
I love you guys. Thanks for being awesome and for giving me the
strength to do this. I love you.
Shoutout Ben
Love,
Elder Freedman
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