ΜΕΤΆΘΕΣΗ!

ΓΕΙΑ!!!!

Hey everyone! Well it feels like I was just doing the same thing but some different stuff happened this week so let see...

Last Tuesday was Elder Cziesla's last day in Thessaloniki. So we spent our day going all around Thessaloniki to say goodbye to everyone. It was good we got to see Brother Matrapazees, Brother Todi, Dimitris and the Stilo Family. It was a busy day also with District Meeting. 

Wednesday we dropped off our companions in the morning and then me and Elder Albertson hung out together for a day. We had the job of sorting through the Sisters' HUGE area book and split it up accordingly for our areas. Elder A is still having a rough time with his ankle, he met with the doctors this week and they told him he has got no ligaments left in his ankle.

Then Thursday Elder Forsey came up to join me from Athens. He is a way cool kid from Arizona! Then we went out and met with our friend Dimitris. It was good for Elder Forsey to get to know him so they are now friends.

Friday was a good day we got to go visit Brother Matrapazees. It went well he really wants to help us out with lessons it is cool.

Saturday we went back to the graveyard and helped out there. Then we went to visit Fortune for the last time before he leaves for the summer for work and it was so awesome to see what a testimony that he has I will miss him. Then that night we traveled out with the Senior couple to visit the Koutouri family. They are members that live a ways from the church. They are awesome they have been some of the longest members. It was cool to get to meet them.

Sunday was a good fast Sunday for us. Then in the evening we went and visited with one of our friends Basilios and it was cool to get to know him. We may have potential to start teaching him which is really cool!

Today was a good day we went up to the castles again and we had a good time. This time we got lucky and they were open so we got to go inside and look around it was cool!

Ο Κύριος οδηγάει το έργο του και μπορούμε να δούμε το χέρι του καθαρισμένα ελπίζω όλοι εσείς μπορείτε να το δείτε.

ΣΑΣ ΑΓΑΠΩ

Πρεσβύτερος Χάλβερσον

ΚΙ ΜΙΑ ΑΛΛΗ!!!

ΓΕΙΑ!!!

Alright so it was a really good week this week and a lot of stuff happened so it is probably another long one!

So last Monday after email and stuff we went up to what is called the castles at the top of Thess, with our Friend Dimitris, it was cool, and good to get to know him a bit better.

Then on Tuesday we had a good District Meeting. Brother Todi came and helped us out, and also made us the meal for the District Meeting. It was cool. Then afterwords we went and visited Brother Matrapazees and we helped him out by giving him a haircut! It was good fun.

Brother Matrapazees haircut

Wednesday we did some sport finding with Dimitris in the morning. Later in the day we had the last German class! (I may or may not be excited to start English class.) We also got a call from the other Elders to inform us that Elder Albertson had rolled his ankle and was maybe going to be stuck inside for a while.

Thursday we had a fun day with service. We went and helped a friend who is a gardener at a graveyard and we had a giant rainstorm a week ago that had wrecked it. So we had to clean up a lot of stuff. It was fun to smash some headstones! We also were able to see Fortune again before he leaves for the summer. He is doing good and going to keep reading and praying!

So on Friday we got to go the warehouse and help them move a lot of clothes around. Then we went later in the afternoon and had dinner with the other Elders. They had been stuck inside for a while so we paid them a quick visit.

Saturday we went by the graveyard again to help. We are making some good progress but still have a lot of work ahead of us. Then that night we made some good friends with people down at a little corner shop it was way cool. 

Sunday we had a good day! We had a visit from the Heders it is going to be there last time up here in Thess. It was good and we were able to have a good meeting with them. President shared a great message with us on how we need to prepare in every little and small moment so that when the big moments come we are ready and that God will always be with us. It was good.

Today we just had a lazy day cleaned and got ready before inspections. We also got ready for the transfer on Wednesday/Thursday. Just to know I will be staying where I am and Elder Forsey from Arizona is going to come up and join me. I am pumped!

ΣΑΣ ΑΓΑΠΩ!!!

Πρεσβύτερος Χάλβερσον

ΜΕΘΥΣΜΈΝΟ

ΓΕΙΑ!!!

Πολλά έγινε λοιπόν ας το γράψω!

Alright so last Monday we had Family Home Evening. We had 5 nonmembers come and only one was an investigator it was really awesome. We are meeting up with them again today!

Tuesday we had district meeting. After we started an exchange with the other Elders here in Thess. I was back at it with good ole' Elder Nelson! That day we were able to meet up with Fortune again. It went well it is cool to see how the gospel really changes your life when you are willing!

On Wednesday we continued our exchange with some good finding then we headed up to Brother Todi's for lunch. We were able to have a good lunch that just grew and grew as you ate it, it was so weird. 

Thursday we got rained out for all of our activities so we did some finding for most of the day. When it rains everyone goes inside it is just weird there were like no people anywhere but we now know our area a lot better which is good. It gives us a better chance of not getting lost.

Friday we had a busy day. We went to the warehouse in the morning and helped out there. Then we came back and headed to Brother Matrapazees. We had a good time with him. Then we went to visit with Dimitris who is the Sisters investigator but in a week we are going to start working with him. After we went with him and did service on a beach and just cleaned up a bunch of trash it was good.

Then Saturday we did some soccer finding in the morning that went really well. We got told where we need to go to do some real good soccer finding. After we had a lesson with Fortune again. Just as we were getting started an American missionary from another church brought this guy up that was super high. He just wanted help but long story short he started freakin out and tried to choke us. Then a huge Greek man came and just slapped him and he ran away so we didn't unfortunately have a lesson with Fortune but hopefully next time.

(Not my Blood :/)

Where he tried to chock me

Yesterday was also a great day I got to skype with my family for mothers day. We also had a pot-luck at the church that went really well and we had 2 investigators there. 

Well I think that is it for the week it was a great week! 

Σας αγαπώ,

Πρεσβύτερος Χάλβερσον

ΚΑΛΉ ΕΒΔΟΜΆΔΑ!!

ΓΕΙΑ ΣΑΣ!!!

Well it was a good week and I remembered my planner so I can remember what happened this week.

So Tuesday we had a good District Meeting. Then later that day we went down and did some finding at the Beach which isn't really a beach but a boardwalk. It was fun. That night the Zone Leaders came up from Athens so we could do an exchange on Wednesday.

Wednesday we had an all day exchange with the Zone Leaders. I was with Elder Menis who is from Italy he is a really good guy. We did some good finding as well we just made so many friends and ended up giving out a Book of Mormon as well. It was cool.

The next day we headed down to Athens! So on the way in the Athens airport I was sitting there waiting for my little bag and I started talking with this guy next to me. We had a really good conversation about the church and I gave him a Book of Mormon. He gave me his card, it was really cool. We will be meeting up sometime this week. That day we had interviews with President. They went well. Then that night we got to chill at the AP's apartment and so I got to hang out with Elder Goodwin for a little bit it was awesome!

Friday was Zone Conference! It was really good. At Zone Conference we were taught about prayer and what it really means to pray to our Father in Heaven and to work with the Spirit to have the best prayers that we can. It was really cool.

Saturday was an interesting day for sure. We had gone to visit Brother Matrapazees and that went well. But then we had an amazing bike ride home. So right as we left the rain started to just come down in a wave. It was so ridiculus we were soaked within a couple of minutes. We were with the other Elders cause we were going to grab a bite to eat. Out of nowhere Elder Albertson just biffed it trying to stop and then my comp Elder Cziesla fell as well trying to turn to hard around a corner it was for sure an adventure!

Sunday was a good Sabbath Elder Cziesla got to skype his family a week early cause his dad had something to do with church the next Sunday. So that was pretty much our day after church!

That is it for the week!

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