Tuesday, May 25, 2021

WK 19 - Amerikawiwoch YELEM

Good evening everyone. Welcome to another episode of the Life in East Africa podcast. Tonight we will be discussing Baptism.

Wendimu got baptized on Saturday! It was a really neat experience. We had to climb through a chapel window to get in and get the font filled in time because the Church was locked and we had forgotten our phone at the apartment. Eventually we got it all together and we only started 20 minutes late! I conducted and Elder Anbesse performed the Baptism. Afterwards Wendimu bore such a sweet, sincere testimony about how he came to know the Church is true. That is a powerful man right there.

We confirmed him in Sacrament Meeting yesterday and that was the most spiritual part for me. Standing in the circle with Melchezidek Priesthood holders from the branch here and listening to the blessing in Amharic was just....so cool. Sorry for the lack of refined language but that's the word that described it for me. The Priesthood HAS IN FACT been restored to the Earth. We have access to that power. What a blessing. It allows us to do so many amazing things for God's children. 

We had to lockdown in our apartments for a day this week because there were some anti-American protests going on in Addis. That's where the subject line comes in. It means "no Americans" in Amharic. I'd imagine that was said quite a bit that day. So we just studied and listened to a BYU devotional. I honestly thought we could've just adopted Australian accents for the day and been fine but like safety first right?

Have a great week! 

አሪፍ ሳምንት አላቹ

Elder Miles 


Wendimu!!!

Chilling in the hood behind out apartment. This is what houses look like in Addis.

Chicken Sammiches


Dynamic Duo

Roof chillin


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