Λοιπόν μια άλλη εβδομάδα έχει περάσει και ακόμα συνεχίσει να πάει πιο γρήγορα και ακόμα αγαπάω το έργο πιο πολύ κάθε μέρα!
Alright so lets get to it. Last Tuesday we did some finding. I also was able to try my first μπουγαστα which is a really famous desert here in Thessaloniki. It is really good. And I may or may not have fallen off my bike for the first time.
On Wednesday in the morning we did service on the streets. I was able to help an old lady cross the street. Yes I actually did it. We also had some good conversations. Then we visited a less active family. It was pretty fun and interesting they are a bit lost but want to start getting involved with the church again. I hope that we will be able to help them. They gave us φακές which is lentils and it has some stuff with it. The Greeks now are fasting and so they don't eat meat. It is one of the things they eat around this time of year and it isn't to bad. That night we did some basketball finding and were able to make some friends that invited us back to play with them whenever we want.
Thursday we went out to do service and some guy yelled at us in English to come and have a drink with him. It was actually really cool. He had lived in Philly for a couple years and we had met his wife on the street on Wednesday. They wanted to thank us it was cool. That night we went to visit our neighbors and it was super cool. They are funny they also gave us some Greek nicknames so they could remember us. I am Haris and then my comp is Γλυκουλης which means little sweety it is really funny.
Friday we went and helped out at Salvation Army. We also were able to do some basketball finding again in the evening which again went well.
Saturday in the morning we went and did soccer finding with the other Elders and all the youth in the branch. Which is just Orestis the branch presidents son. It went really well and we played with some 18 year olds that were really good so it was difficult. Then we went and had lunch at Brother Todi's house. It was really awesome he is such a good guy.
We then got up on Sunday morning to a beautiful day. We even did part of companion study on the balcony but then things took a turn for the worse. It got super windy and rainy. So we had a fun ride to church in the rain in coats and suits. I would say it was a really good adventure. After church we had a linger-longer which is basically just a lunch with the members. It was cool. That night we were doing another whiteboard and not even 5 minutes into it we started to have a conversation with a guy about the Book of Mormon. It went well. For me it felt like maybe 20 minutes but I turned around and the Sisters had left with the whiteboard. It had been about an hour and half it was crazy. We are going to be having a new investigator this week.
That was my week. It was great. Something that I have really realized is how amazing the atonement really is. Because every one of us has it offered to us. Nobody is more fortunate than another. It is something really neat to be able to have in our lives!
Σας Αγαπάω,
Πρεσβύτερος Χάλβερσον
συγγνώμη για το μακρύ μήνυμα.
P.S. Sorry I don't have any pictures this week I will make sure I get some for next week.
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