Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Mission

Transfers....Change is sometimes welcome!

Hello everyone! How’s it going? Hope you all had another blessed week! Some big changes this week from transfers! Let me tell you about it! Feb 16 Awesome day! We went roller skating and didn’t eat a bunch of junk food. I think I mentioned that I had found a cool place with roller skating, trampolines, arcades etc. while out tracting. I made note of where it was to come back on our P-day. Places like this are very uncommon in Ethiopia so it was surprising for me to find

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6 Months Out!

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY! Especially to my valentine Ali Robertson ❤️ (you all knew that was coming) hope you all had nice chocolate for me. Surprisingly, I crossed the 6 month mark this week. 1/4 done with my mission.... crazy... Let's hop into this week. Feb 10 Today we met with a member, and all the missionaries went.... I don’t like it when we do that, but that’s the culture of this branch.... and we spent 3 hours. I’m not going to say wasted because it wasn’t. We were wit

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Learning to Lead is Hard

HOLLLLYYYYY I’m tired! But everything is good and going well. I hope you all are doing well and stay blessed! Let's just hop into this week before I lose my mind. Feb 2nd (last P Day) I got a well needed haircut, and it was nice! The guy cut me up better than the guy in Adama where I was before this transfer. It was for some reason a lot cheaper!!!! It is nice to have my haircut by people who have hair like mine. I'll definitely go back before I leave this place. My

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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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