Another great week in Ethiopia! I am really starting to love it more here. Zone Conference and Interviews really helped me out a lot too. Met with President Collings. That was awesome. I am doing well right now.
Yesterday was Ethiopian New Year sooo no emailing because we were on lock down for the weekend except to go to church!
Well first I will just respond to some questions. Haha your thing about the Lion of Judah made me laugh. Yep, that is Ethiopia for you. Their Orthodox religion is just so confused and loves worshiping idols and all that. As far as Amharic goes, sadly I don't think I will be here in Ethiopia very long. Maybe 5 more months or so. So speaking on the streets is good. They also supply us with church approved language study materials that are really good.
Well, as for the work things are still a bit slow. We have had a few random people just come up to us and ask us about our church. One guy is named Daniel. This guy just jumped in front of me as we were rushing to meet someone in the city and yelled "Latter Day Saint!" He also told us he read a ton of stuff online about our Bible and all these crazy false doctrines. I have some funny tricks for people like that and I settled him down. We are meeting with him tomorrow. We will see how that goes! On Wednesday we got in to a little tussle with a guy that ended in him getting a free phone and other things. :(( Fortunately phones are completely replaceable. UN-fortunately contacts are not. The worst part is there were a few investigators like Weynshet and Abel were lost when we lost the phone. Man we were devastated.... We went through the whole week having to restart some things. On Saturday we were sitting there at the house trying to think of what to do. We felt like we should just go walk this one direction for a while and see what we could find. Well as we were walking we found Weynshet and Abel boarding a taxi! I yelled for them and just ran up and gave them huge hugs. They were really confused why I was so happy to see them but that was our only way of continuing to teach them! We found them! That was a good day.
I do miss cars a lot and am really excited to come home to some work on mine and the others. That sounds so awesome!
I gotta continue on. Have a great week! Thanks for all the help.
Love,
Elder McLain
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