[4] At the age of ten, Freeman was baptized and became a member of the Holiness Church, the faith his father's family had supported for at least three generations.

After graduating from high school he obtained an evangelist's license fulfilling his childhood dream of becoming a lay minister in the faith.

During the period of investigation prior to his baptism he met Toe Isapela Leituala, a Samoan convert to the faith of six years.

Due to his years of faithfulness and spiritual aptitude, Freeman's ecclesiastical leaders felt that it would be appropriate to ordain him to the office of elder without prior ordination to the Aaronic priesthood.

[10] On July 23, 1978,[11] Freeman was sealed to his wife and their two sons, Alexander and Zechariah, in the Salt Lake Temple and thereby became one of the first men of black African descent to receive this ordinance.