This week was strange. We were super busy: we never had any time where we weren't doing something we needed to, yet I feel like we got almost nothing done. Plus it just flew by. I don't know if this is a natural missionary phenomenon but here we are.
Funny story of the week. We were eating lunch one day in a tiny restaurant the size of a bedroom, when a bunch of old dudes poked their heads in. One let out a little bit of a screech and they all came in and started singing and dancing. As most things like this in Ethiopia go, they wanted money, so they kept going until a few birr was coughed up. Then they left us with some grass as a blessing and were gone.
Updates on our people: Dula was confirmed on Sunday and I had the opportunity to confirm him. We gave him the new member pack with a white shirt and tie and he was quite emotional about it. Our teaching pool has been refilled so we've got people like Temesgen, Abenezer, Theo, and Mana who hopefully pop up in later emails as they progress.
The main part of this week was our Chapel open house on Saturday. The branch here is in dire need of activities so we had this planned as one, as well as to help find people. Two birds with one stone. We passed out tons of flyers and made an Amharic-dub, Oromic-sub version of the "Ask of God" video. Not a ton of people showed up, but luckily for us, our buddy Robel came and loved it. He also got talking to President and Sister Dudfield afterwards and that definitely left an impression on him. He decided he wanted to be baptized!
I don't remember what I talked about in the last few weeks, so if I repeat forgive me. But Dula shared something with me that I loved. He read a story in the Liahona about a missionary who died on his mission, and his parents found out his motto was "do a little better every day." I love that motto and how it applies to repentance! Christ doesn't expect us to be perfect, and frankly if we expect ourselves to be we will always be disappointed. But as we intentionally do just one thing better every day, slowly we will begin to see his countenance in us! Bit by bit a change of heart and mind will occur.
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Elder Miles
Only one picture this week. Elder Larson and I in our traditional Ethiopian Gabis 🥶.
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