It is indeed a somber day. The original group of missionaries called to the Ethiopia Addis Ababa Mission Amharic speaking are finishing today. This includes my comp Elder Ayre, so I will be “killing” him. This generation of missionaries has been super influential on the mission and some of my closest mission friends are a part of it. It's way sad to see them go, but such is the circle of mission life. These next months will be different for sure but I'm looking forward to them.
We had Zone Conference this week. President Dudfield had us play Preach My Gospel Jeoparde and my team took a phat W. We talked a lot about member work and relating to people of other religions. As a zone, we talked about daily planning and making backup plans to make the most of our time. Every time we have meetings, I recognize just how much more I have to learn as a missionary, so it's always inspiring. I look forward to them.
We did service again this week. The coordinator asked us to play basketball with the kids because they bought a new basketball, and we taught them how to play a shooting game that President Dudfield would have us play in Kenya.
It’s been pouring lately and mega cold, so that's been not so fun. It causes lessons to cancel and people to not come to church, but we make do. We went to Arat Kilo to do a joint lesson with the Elders up there that way we could pass off Tekaw's friend Esias, but because of the rain it ended up just being us. We taught him in the huge, new library up there. Then we met up with Tekaw after. Those two are awesome.
I went on exchanges with Elder Ferrin this week. We got in one good lesson then rain made the rest of the day bare, so we prepared for and taught English class.
This week we taught two new people. One's name was Alemu and he was a gray dot. We had one good lesson with him and then he came back a little bit fiery. Apparently, he knew more about the church than he led on and began to bash us a bit about baptism. We could not understand the point he was trying to make, so we called a member and had him talk to him. Alemu wanted to meet with the member Sunday morning but he never came so...
The other was a young dude named Melaku. We got him as a referral from a high dude on the street. He told us his friend needed help and his friend ended up being Melaku. Melaku is a super nice guy that loves the Gospel, but has had a hard life and some obvious word of wisdom problems, but I feel like we can help him a lot.
Tesfay and Tekaw received the Aaronic Priesthood yesterday. We are super pumped for them and their progress.
"Nothing happens in this church unless you work."
-President
Hinckley
We have
to work for what we want tomorrow.
Love
you guys! Let me know how you are doing!
Elder
Miles
እግዚአብሔር ይመስገን
Bye-bye lunch 
Playing some ball with the ልጆች 
The nice, new library 
The boys going home and the guard 
Getaye Elder Fry at ZC
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