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Hey everyone!

What an exciting and busy week it has been I hope my email doesn't bore you all because it might be a little longer today.

Ok so last Monday night we went to Syntagma and we did a whiteboard. It went really well we made a couple friends and then we had someone who asked for a BoM. She said she was going to read it and then call us. But we were able to get her information and have been in contact with her so hopefully that goes well.

Tuesday we had district meeting earlier in the day. Then that night we went looking for a less active member. We didn't know which buzzer was theirs on the building so we just pushed one and somebody opened the door without even asking who it was. We went in and then apparently the lady was expecting someone else cause she yelled at us to leave and went upstairs. We just waited a couple minutes and then went to our less actives door because we knew which was theirs. But sadly they saw who it was and didn't answer the door.

Wednesday we went and tried to do some basketball finding but nobody showed up so we went home. Then we went and did some finding and I was able to make a really good friend. Sadly he is a Muslim so we have to do a lot of interviews with him to just be able to teach him. So right now we are just friends and he wants to meet up again sometime which is really cool.

Thursday nothing to exciting happened. We did have a meeting with the CES (Church education something I don't remember) leaders for the area and it was cool, they taught about how we, most of the time, do not see the results of our efforts in the mission field which is true especially in Greece.

Friday was a really good day but it had a rocky start. Thursday night, since we have zone conference today, we had some missionaries from Thessaloniki that were staying with us. Which was interesting I couldn't understand their Greek or English because they had such strong accents they were from France, and Finland I think. So we left our house 30 minutes earlier than usual so that we could get to the church on time for the meeting. But we got stuck at the metro for 40 minutes just to have them tell me I can't buy a monthly pass because they changed how they do it. Because now the Metro is owned by the Russians so there are certain security things they added so that was pretty dumb. It ended up that we had to run from the metro to the church and we made it only 2 minutes late when we thought we were going to be about 15 so that was good. They had waited to start the meeting cause I was supposed to give the opening prayer haha. Then we had zone conference and it was really good and fun, we did a scripture chase in the middle for a little break I will send a picture it was pretty fun.

Saturday was another good day. To start off with a good morning we went and cleaned on Mars Hill. It was really cool but it is also sad how dirty it is. We also found a hobos house up there so we cleaned up all of their trash for them haha. Then that night we were able to watch the Priesthood Session from general conference and it was really good I really liked President Eyring's talk on priesthood leaders it was really good and really true.

Sunday was amazing, so we had the two other sessions of conference that we didn't get to watch with both the English and Greek branches. I was lucky enough to get to watch it in English. Holy cow that last conference was amazing every message just had a great message and it was great, I would recommended reading through those talks again. Then in between sessions that day we had a pot-luck. It was sooo good we had a mix of Greek, philipeanian (sorry don't know how to say that), and American food it was really good. The Greeks had brought this pasta thing and they put like cream and cinnamon on top and then some meat inside it tasted really weird. Then we had rice cakes, they are surprisingly good. It was overall just a good time to be with everyone. 

Then today I really haven't done anything so sorry about a boring day.

Spiritual thought this week comes from General Conference, I am sorry I don't remember who said it but they said "Love without Service is like Faith without Works, it is dead" It is really true. I am starting to realize that on my mission as I serve people I gain a real love for them. Well that's all for today sorry again for the long message.

Love,

Elder Halverson