A post from the Minnesota Minneapoli Mission Blog

Elder Brooks / Elder Howard

Habtamu Mamo is from Ethiopia and grew up as a Christian. He was baptized on Saturday, Oct. 9.th In Ethiopia he was imprisoned and released 1 ½ weeks later; he is a political torture victim. Escaping from Ethiopia, he paid to be smuggled into Mexico, then America. The border control caught him, and gave him asylum because he was a torture victim. He came to MN, saw the Mormonads --- at the very end they would say “I’m a Mormon!” He wondered what that was, checked out mormon.org, the missionaries on mormon.org. told him where to go to church. But the missionaries saw him the very next day on Friday and stopped him on the street. On Saturday they taught him a first lesson; the spirit was really strong --- he pointed out the spirit himself and on Sunday; it was stake conference. Elder Gong was the visiting authority. If the missionaries hadn’t met him on the street Friday before stake conference, he would have gone to an empty building for church; they gave him the stake conference address. He found the missionaries and told them he had heard the word of God that day! They taught him again later that week. His wife is waiting for him to gain asylum, then she will come and be taught here, as well. She is in Greece.