WHAAAAAATS UP! WE. ARE. BACK from Eastern Africa. I realized my last email was a little slow and a bit TOO much to the point so I promise to do better to include more spiritual excitement and missionary shenanigans.
Last P-day we hit up the Shiro Meda market to get our hands on some traditional Ethiopian clothing. Elder Jensen, an Elder now living with us, promised to show us how to make Ethiopian fabric ties if we bought scarves there, so we made the purchase and after a few hours of mediocre hand-stitching I have an Ethiopian fabric tie! Picture attached. I also got a fresh cut from an Ethiopian barber down the street and let me just say a bowl cut never looked so good.
We did a ton of teaching this week. On Friday I think I spoke the most Amharic I have ever attempted. We taught two guys named Dawit. They asked us about the Book of Mormon so we taught about the Restoration while one Dawit translated to the other Dawit in what I think was Tigrayan. We taught a man named Adinew who works at the One Planet school we toured a while back. And more on top of that.
We've been teaching someone named Tesfaye recently and he might be the most powerful investigator I've taught so far on my mission. He is separated from his family right now because of the war and is going through a difficult time, but he loves the Gospel. A lot of churches here prefer to keep people in the dark and don't let them ask questions, so he loves how we encourage him to learn and ask. We give him invitations and he goes the extra mile. My man has developed an impressive love for the Gospel Library App.
Happy Halloween! Psych. Nobody knows what Halloween is here. The most Halloweeny thing that happened this week was we found a rats' nest in our oven. Somehow they even got a tie in there. The way we celebrate holidays here is pretty much just by eating good food so we treated ourselves to burgers and noodles, but of course we had to celebrate on Saturday (what did you think?)
We celebrated for real by baptizing Patrick and Tariku. I was able to baptize Tariku. They are awesome! So excited for them and their future. We are at a point now where recent converts of a few months are helping welcome the brand new converts and it's an amazing sight. The Church really is the Kingdom of God here on Earth.
I read President Nelson's most recent talk on spiritual foundations more in depth tonight, and I love how he says that as we keep our covenants, we will be able to access Christ's power. Not only that, as we pray and study to better understand Temple Covenants, "Spiritual doors will open. You will learn how to part the veil between heaven and earth, how to ask for God's angels to attend you, and how better to receive direction from heaven." Those are some pretty powerful promises. Follow the prophet folks.
Sorry for the long email! I hope something in here can make ya smile. Love you guys.
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Elder Miles
Getting lined up The Ethiopian fabric ties Chilling after Baptismal Interviews Decorating the house pre-Halloween lunch featuring Elder Heiner Tariku All the Halloween baptisms Companionship baptisms Rats' nest
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