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Well it was a good busy week so lets get to it.

Monday was a great day we met up at the church with some other missionaries and we played volley for hours it was sweet. Then that night Elder Gaskill accidentally grabbed the wrong phone at the church and had grabbed Elder Goodwin and Forsey's phone so yeah we eneded up having to figure that out for our evening but we were just happy we didn't leave the church without a phone which was good. 

Tuesday I had a fun last day in Athens. For lunch we ordered some pizza to have a good last day. We each had a pizza. Then we headed to teach mission prep to Nikos. His mom surprised us with lunch of a porkchop and potatoes it was really good. But after that I was full! Then we had to head to a dinner apointment with Hami and Oddyseas. We had some greek salad and then a big peice of pestichio, which is like the greek lasagna, and that was good. Then she came out with a huge plate of chili con carne and that just about killed me but it was really good. Then she brought out some greek yogurt for dessert and I just had to pray I was going to be able to finish it all - haha - but it was good. I am really going to miss those two they bought us little souveneirs as well it was awesome! Here is a picture with them:

I got up early on Wednesday Morning and headed to the airport to come to Thess. The trip went smooth and uneventful which was nice.

​This is my new companion Elder Nelson he is from Highland Utah so I have another great comp from Utah. He just finished training so yeah I again have a lot of work ahead of me this transfer but I am excited.

Thursday was a good day. The Sisters in Thess had invited the Elders to come help with English class just to figure it out. We told them we could come help. As we were hoping on the bikes to head to the church we got a text saying that we needed to teach, and good luck. So yeah we taught English class. It was for sure interesting. We will see if we end up doing that again. 

Friday I got to meet a member Brother Matrapazis he is super cool and just a great member. He has a short tounge and so he is pretty tough to understand sometimes.

Saturday in the morning we went and played soccer with the other Elders and Orestis a member in the branch. He is really a cool kid. That night we had a BB-Q at the church which went well. We had one of our investigators there and I got made the "grill-master" 

We had a good Sunday. We went to church. We had about 10 people there. I also gave my first talk in Greek it was great but I struggled a bit at points but overall it was good. That evening we had a whiteboard along the "Beach" which is really just a boardwalk. It went well. We had someone say they wanted to come to church and he gave us his number it was really cool.

(The other Elder had to run to the bathroom and missed the picture its to bad)

But yeah overall a really great week. This week my talk in church was about planting and nourishing our seed of faith. I focused on the fact the if we read our scriptures and pray daily then come to church every week we will be blessed and have our faith grow into something great!

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