Elder Brigham Halverson Greece Athens Mission: ΕΝΑΣ ΕΤΟΣ!!

ΓΕΙΑ!!

Well a ton has happened so I am just gonna jump into it.

So last Monday evening we had an awesome FHE with Dimitris. We were able to teach about temples an Family History work. He said that it was really cool and would like to do what he can to find his own names.

Tuesday we had a good day, we started an exchange and I was able to stay at home and have Elder Albertson come join me. That night we were able to have a good meeting with the Stilo Family. We are really trying to help them read the BoM everyday. We hope that this week we will see some improvement!

Wednesday, on our exchange we had an adventure. In the morning a Professor came from BYU. We had to do translation for her as she interviewed the members of the branch here. She wanted to know about the branch history - oh man my brain got a bit fried. That night we were able to have a Skype lesson with an awesome guy in Albania who is half Greek and half Italian. He is totally prepared by God and his member friend who taught him all the lessons. It was cool.

Thursday, I became an old missionary or you could say I went over the hill but I have now been a missionary for a year. That is pretty crazy. We had an awesome lunch, then we did some good service at the Graveyard for our friend. We also were able to have a good conversation with him. Then that night we celebrated by ordering some crepes.

Lunch

crepe

On Friday, we had a good day and did some good finding in the morning. Then we had a busy evening. We met up with Dimitris, then with our security guard friend Jimmy. He introduced us to a friend! Then we met up with Vasilios and we taught english, but then we were able to talk about our experiences with the BoM it was cool.

Saturday was great! We did service again with our friends in the Laiki and help them set up and take down. They are really starting to trust us which is good. We hope soon things will start happening they are such good people. Then we met up with Dimitris to eat some food with the other Elders. We had a lesson on the baptismal covenant and we all bore testimony it was super awesome! Then that night we were able to Skype with Stelios again. This time we did the baptismal interview questions and he is going to be baptized next Saturday! Super awesome!

Sunday we had a great Sabbath with church. We were able to meet with Jimmy again and share the Family Proclamation. In the evening we met with Kostas who was a former investigator. He loves the Bible and has lots of questions it is cool!

Today we had an adventure. We decided to do a 40 mile bike ride and see a lake. It included climbing a mountain and then going down the other side and then back again. Man it was tough but it was so beautiful. A tear may or may not have been shed when I was just surrounded by nature!