First of all. HBD AMERICA! I hope everyone had a fantastic Fourth of July. This was the strangest Fourth ever because I'm in another country and its cold and rainy, but we made do and celebrated with burgers, fries, and sparklers.
This week was very, extraordinarily, extremely plain until today. Instead of playing soccer like we usually do (and briefly on that, not to toot my own horn but my 7th grade midfielder skills are coming back), we went exploring!! The only goal was to head into the mountains near our area, so that's what we did and the experience was definitely worth the calf-destroying hike. By the time we reached the top I saw something I haven't seen in ages: a forest. And not just any forest, but what you'd imagine an African forest to look like. There were little tin shacks everywhere up there with people coming out and seeing what we were doing. We were probably the first white people some of those kids have ever seen. It was surreal and honestly what I expected when I imagined serving in Africa. I keep having experiences where I'm like "dang I'm really here" and this might've been the most prominent one.
We had some good and bad when it came to the people we are teaching. We had two referrals this week that are awesome, a young man named Estefanos and an older guy named Abeba. Sadly Estefanos's phone got stolen this week and he met with us very distressed, but despite that he came to church!! We ended our streak of not getting people to church and had three come so that was nice. We started second hour too which should help the branch here a lot.
We had a Baptism for Wendesen scheduled on Saturday but he dipped off the face of the planet again so we're gonna take him off date. We put Tolossa on date for this coming Saturday though so we're pumped for that!
Spiritual tidbit for the week: I just wanna say that I know God answers prayers, although sometimes it takes some time for it to be realized. Don't stop praying. Don't stop hoping. Don't stop doing good and trying. God hears you.
Thank you y'all
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Elder Miles
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| So-called "Sun Chips" |
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| Comp Unity |
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| 'MERICA |
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| More pupz |
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| The African Jungle |
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| A nice Pday hike |
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