Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Mission

First Zone Conference

Hello everyone! Hope everything is going well! Here is what happened this week. Tuesday Today was the most lessons I have ever had in a day.... it was crazy! It was fun and made the day go by way faster, which was nice. Tomorrow i have my first zone conference. We will be heading up to the capital of Addis Ababa in the morning. Wednesday Well today was my first zone conference! Wouldn’t you know it, I was not in typical Adam fashion and we were late. We didn’t

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Today was good- Most days this week!

Hello everyone! Hope you all are doing amazing! Love you all! This week was good, and sadly no crazy stories! November 11 Today was good! We decided in our weekly district meeting that we would be doing a service project and help a member named Merga. The service project was us moving stuff around in his house; there were lots of logs and metal. We moved them and cleared out a corner of his "complex,” which is a house where there is a courtyard that everyone uses. In addit

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Time is moving fast!

Selam, family and friends! I hope you all are staying blessed and having a good time! Listen to some music for me! Watch some amazing movies! Here is my report for the week. November 4 Today was another interesting day. No trainers again, which was hard. They went to visit the zone. They are both trainers and Zone leaders. It’s getting easier because I am learning more Amharic, enough to communicate! It was a good day, and we figured out some stuff in a meeting with our

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Interesting Facts about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Ethiopia.

2,423 Total Church Membership

8-Congregations

0 Wards

8 Branches

The first members in Ethiopia were expatriates attached to embassies who held Church meetings in homes in Addis Ababa. In March 1985 Church Apostle Elder M. Russell Ballard and Elder Glenn L. Pace of the Seventy visited Addis Ababa with Church relief supplies. The Church donated some $2.8 million for famine relief and irrigation development in Ethiopia and neighboring countries, such as Sudan.

The Kenya Nairobi Mission, which includes Ethiopia, was created in 1991, and the first official Church meeting was held in Addis Ababa in August 1992. In 1993 the Church was legally registered and the first missionary couple arrived. In February 1993 the first missionaries arrived, Elder Eugene and Sister Ruth Hilton. The Church was legally registered on 16 September 1993.

The Addis Ababa Branch (a small congregation) was created in January 1994 and was presided over by Girma Denisa. He was the first Ethiopian to serve the Church as a full-time missionary.

In 2020 The first official mission was established. However, due to Covid and then civil war. The mission is still new.

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