Elder Brigham Halverson Greece Athens Mission: ΓΕΝΙΚΗ ΣΥΝΕΛΕΥΣΗ!!!!!!

ΓΕΙΑ ΣΑΣ!!!

Well it was just a great week so lets get to it.

Last Tuesday we started our exchange with Elders Amoz and Ala-Jaaski. Elder Gaskill and I stayed in our area with Elder Ala-Jaaski who is from Finland. It was a good day and we got to teach English Class that night which went pretty well.

Wednesday we got to go out to the Friendship Center for the refugees and to again teach English this time it went really well. We then switched back and got to teach Awesome a lesson. It was super cool we had taught him the same lesson before and he was very skeptical and did really like it but this time we were able to teach him and he accepted it and agreed to ponder and pray about our message which was just awesome. That night it was Elder Gaskill's year mark and for our dinner we bought gyros and went and sat on Mars Hill looking out over the city at night. It was super cool. Then we asked this guy to take our picture and so he did and as we are leaving I told him to have a good vacation turns out he actually lives here and was from Latvia. His name was Remus (and he looks just like a blonde version of Remus Lupin from Harry Potter) We got talking he was cool then he let us know he moved to Greece from England for some "health reason" haha too funny, but he was super nice and had a nice camera and offered at the end to take our picture with that and to send them to us it was awesome!

Thursday was a great day we got to go out in the morning and help out in the park and to talk with one of our investigators about coming to church which went well. That night we went and did some Voice of the Lord survey finding and it was just a good time.

Friday we went and helped out at the Soup Kitchen for a good chunk of the day. That night we went and did a whiteboard and asked people what the world needs. It was a good question. Then we ran into a member that night he was just a sweet old man and it was awesome we ended up taking him with us to General Conference the next night it was a cool experience.

Saturday we did a whiteboard in the middle of the day that went surprisingly well and then that night we were able to go and watch General Conference it was awesome I loved being able to hear from those inspired. One of my favorites was David A. Bednar's talk about just being united in Christ it was really awesome!

Sunday was a good day of church. After church we were able to go as missionaries of Athens to do a music finding activity in the center and it went really well and we ran into some members right before we left for conference who took our picture.

We were able to watch the Sunday morning session of conference and I loved President Nelsons talk especial his response to "are you a mormon?" haha.

Today was good we went again up to the hill above the city to celebrate with Elder Gaskil's group for hitting 1 year it was really cool it is super pretty.