Tuesday, September 21, 2021

WK 36 - Hot Glue for Dessert

Sadly, this was probably one of least productive weeks of my mission but we learned a lot and had some funny experiences. We had a bunch of lessons fall apart in the most extraordinarily unfortunate ways. 

For example, we set up a meeting with Brother Duop for Friday night. We went to the roundabout where we were going to meet him and ran into another member, Brother Robert, and he took us to his home. We thought it was just a coincidence, but it turns out he thought we were another companionship who set up a member visit with him at the same time as ours. No problem. We were meeting with someone else anyways. Well, we left and called Brother Duop...only to hear the other Elders on the phone. Turns out "Brother Duop" is just Brother Robert's other phone, and we set up the lesson for other Elders. This story pretty much sums up the whole week. 

I had an interesting beverage one day. We visited our Sudanese friends and dropped off a Book of Mormon. They gave a dessert drink, kind of like hot chocolate I guess, but it was a mixture of milk, flour, and sugar. It wasn't bad. The first couple of sips were nice. But after a while the flour taste became overpowering and it just started to taste like glue. 

We're still teaching Patrick from Burundi. That guy is so meek we love him, and he loves the Gospel. We met with him four days in a row which is a record for me. We also started meeting with a runner named Kelemu and we were able to teach him in mostly Amharic! Honestly being forced to speak the language has helped me with it so much. 

We had District Conference this Saturday and Sunday and it was awesome. We sung as a missionary choir for the Saturday session. All the branches in the area got together and listened to some powerful talks from the leadership. The best were from President and Sister Dudfield. President Dudfield gave a "talk" on the covenant path and the iron rod, but it was more of a live demonstration. He is a such a funny dude; I have never been so entertained yet felt the Spirit so strongly at the same time. 

I've been thinking about working hard and diligence this week. Sometimes, like this week for us, when things aren't working out, it can be hard to have the motivation to keep working and do your best. But, if you do your best anyways, God will make up the difference and work through you despite weakness and unfortunate occurrences. President Eyring said in a talk once: "Hard as things seem today, they will be better in the next day if you choose to serve the Lord this day with your whole heart." I testify that it's true. 

Love you guys, and God loves you too. 

Remember that he is on your right hand and your left. Those that are with us are more than are with them. 

እግዚአብሔር ይባርካችኋል

Elder Miles

 

It's ya boi Patrick

Mission Choir practice selfie

Elder Burger make burgers

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