A new friend

The man at our church in charge of international student ministries (?) met an Ethiopian guy recently and e-introduced us. Tonight, we had "the King" over for dinner. We talked about a lot of things, including Ethiopia, for which I was grateful. He also tried to convince me that although Amharigna has 33 x 7 characters in its syllabary, it's actually quite easy to learn. (Okay, I'll try again.) AND, he pronounced our son's "amazing" name a few times so that we could get it just right. We definitely have the first name down, but we have some work to do on the third syllable of his second name. Again, we have time... Thank God for this connection.