Elder Corey Miles - Ethiopia Addis Ababa Mission: WK 38+39

Oh my goodness! Elder Miles missed a weekly. The streak has been broken. I'm sorry to interrupt your constant stream of random information about Ethiopia but I promise it was for a good cause.

Elder Burke's Mom runs a non-profit charity organization here in Ethiopia called Korah Kids, and she was in the country last week! We got the green light from President to spend the day with her and go do some service. It was amazing! We were able to distribute food and toys for families, check in on the progress of sponsored families, hang out with the kids, and we even visited a legit leprosy colony (little did I know it is nowhere near as contagious as the Bible makes it seem). The pday before that we got to play some ball so we've had good preparation days for sure.

We've met so many people and have so many members to reach out to that it's honestly overwhelming, thankfully I'd rather be busy than bored. Patrick is doing good. Tariku is doing good but his baptismal date might get pushed back because we haven't been able to teach all the lessons. We've been visiting a man from Uganda named Emmanuel and his JW roommate Aniset and have been answering their questions. We met a soccer coach from Kenya named Samson that we started teaching. Quick updates on those people.

We met a man named Miki on the taxi coming home from church last week and he's a homie! He met with missionaries pre-covid but then they disappeared on him so he didn't know what to do. We found him and started to meet with him and he's my favorite haha. He's super small, speaks great English (he was a tour guide), and is just funny. He calls me 100 miles for some reason. He came to church and then we actually brought him with us to a lesson with a family that lives in our area. The mom stopped us and wanted us to teach her kids about God. So we went over there and Miki was our assistant for it. But we're pretty much teaching him at the same time too.

I'm a little late on this because of the time differences, but I still haven't been able to watch all of Conference! Even yesterday for church we watched it in Amharic with the members, and I tried my darndest to understand but alas to no avail. Then just before it ended I found out that they were showing it in English upstairs.

But the point is that I have loved the messages I actually have heard! Brad Wilcox's message on worthiness not being flawlessness was great. Sometimes we forget that we don't have to be perfect to receive God's power. And then President Nelson came with the super inspired talk once more. We need to do things we have never done before to strengthen our spiritual foundations. Carefully ponder and pray about how you can do that! I promise that President Nelly knows what he's saying.

Thanks y'all

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Elder Miles