Ethiopia Addis Ababa Mission leaders speak about faithfully and flexibly serving the Lord amid trials and the pandemic

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🗓️ 11 January 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Ethiopia’s national capital and largest city, Addis Ababa, hosts a new mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, recently opened in summer 2020. The first leaders of this mission, President Robert Dudfield and Sister Darice Dudfield, join this episode of the Church News podcast to talk about missionary work in Ethiopia and all that has impacted it — including the pandemic and the recent civil unrest that has caused President and Sister Dudfield, along with their missionaries, to temporarily relocate to the neighboring country of Kenya. They are examples of serving the Lord faithfully and flexibly, as well as the blessings that come from serving in the Church and testifying of Jesus Christ.

The Church News Podcast is a weekly podcast that invites listeners to make a journey of connection with members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints across the globe. Host Sarah Jane Weaver, reporter and editor for The Church News for a quarter-century, shares a unique view of the stories, events, and most important people who form this international faith. With each episode, listeners are asked to embark on a journey to learn from one another and ponder, “What do I know now?” because of the experience. Produced by KellieAnn Halvorsen.

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0:00.0	I would bring it back to my experience in the hospital
0:10.5	with the COVID, thinking about why has the Lord called me here to Ethiopia?
0:15.4	Why has he taken my wife to serve in Ethiopia and then to live a lie in a hospital bed and potentially
0:21.9	dive. But I think about for me knowing that there was a purpose for us to be here, to be able
0:28.2	to push through some of the challenges as early as it was in our mission bed and to be able
0:33.0	to embrace every opportunity as a learning opportunity and to submit cheerfully. And taking that
0:39.0	approach has just unfolded miracle after miracle, experience after experience, lesson after lesson,
0:45.7	that it helps to refine us and helps to become closer to the savi as we represent him. He's great
0:51.0	work here.
1:02.1	I'm Sar Jane Weaver, editor of the Church News, and welcome to the Church News podcast.
1:08.6	We are taking you on a journey of connection as we discuss news and events of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
1:20.0	Ethiopia's national capital and largest city, Addis Ababa, hosts the new Ethiopia-Adis-Baba mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
1:23.5	It was announced in November 2019 and opened in July 2020.
1:28.4	President Robert Dudfield and Sister Derees Dutfield, the first mission leaders in the new mission, joined this episode of the Church News podcast to talk about missionary work in Ethiopia and all that has impacted it in recent months, the pandemic and now civil unrest. With their missionaries, President and
1:46.8	Sister Dudfield were temporarily moved to Kenya from Ethiopia in November. The couple from
1:52.2	Melbourne, Australia, are familiar with church service. President Dudfield is a former Area
1:57.2	70 and served as the Australian National Communications Director for the Church. They are connecting
2:02.9	with us despite a 10-hour time difference from more than 9,000 miles away to share their unique
2:09.1	experiences via technology from Kenya. They are each a living testimony that the Lord's work moves
2:15.5	forward despite obstacles and setbacks and because of
2:19.0	great faith and optimism. Welcome, President and Sister Dudfield to the Church News podcast. It is so
2:24.8	great to have you with us today. It's great to meet you. Thanks, Sarah. Well, President
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