Elder Corey Miles - Ethiopia Addis Ababa Mission: WK 28

Recently, a hobby of mine has become collecting the bootleg things you can find being sold in the little shops on the side of the road. For example, I bought some 100% legit fully-licensed Apple brand socks a couple of weeks ago. I found my golden item this week though: OBAMA PENS. It looks like a classic Bic ballpoint pen except it says OBAMA on the side. The box they were in at the store had his face on it. Perhaps the greatest find of this century.

Last week we hit up a "Lion Park" which was basically just a tiny sketchy zoo. We did see the lions as well as some sick monkeys too. Nearby the park was the National Ethiopian Museum where we saw the infamous LUCY skeleton, although I can't remember exactly why she is infamous. Selam was cooler anyways. But basically she is one of the oldest humanoid skeletons we've ever found. After that, we ate at a restaurant that gave me mad Disneyland vibes. It was another solid Pday.

We headed downtown to Arat Kilo this week to help pick up mail from the Post Office. The more I see of Ethiopia the more I'm convinced there's no place in the world quite like it. We saw some huge, nice skyscrapers as well as the Prime Minister's Palace. But the Post Office was a mad house and we were there for almost two hours trying to figure out how in the world to get our mail.

Elder Anbesse and I have been running YSA activities here for the Megenagna branch the past couple of weeks and it's been fun, but we're struggling to get people and find things to do. The biggest turnout was this last week and all we did was play hackey-sack again. If you have any good ideas for YSA activities that don't require much talking/funds let me know haha I'm in dire need.

We put two people on date this week, and we are really praying that they are ready unlike our past attempts. One is Estefanos who we've been teaching for a while and we're super excited for him. He's on date for this Saturday.

The other is Dula, and we had a really cool experience with him when we put him on date. We taught the Gospel of Jesus Christ and extended the invitation for him to get baptized. He expressed to us that when he first came to the church (which is how we found him) he was only planning on seeing if he could wash his clothes in the bathroom, but as he met with us he felt super impressed by the family focus that we taught. As he shared that I felt very impressed to bear my Testimony on how I've seen the Gospel bless my family. It really touched him, and he gave us his wife's number who lives 600 km away.

It was an awesome experience, and I want to share that same Testimony with you guys! I know the Gospel brings families together. I know one of God's greatest blessings to us is our families. Being out on a mission away from my family, I've realized just how much they've blessed me. Tell your families you love them! And find ways to serve them!

ማንም ይህንን አይረዳም ፡፡ ከተረጎሙት እና ይህን መልእክት ካዩ አሳውቁኝ ፡፡