Another Great Week in Greece!

Hey Everyone,

Wow what a good week it was here in Greece!

Last Monday, after p-day, we went to Syntagma and did a whiteboard. We asked people who their heroes were. It was amazing! So many people said there Mom and Dad which was surprising, but really cool, because that is just the Greek people. We had a lot of success with getting contacts and people to follow up with. It was a really good night.

Tuesday, there is a Greek holiday on Saturday called όχι day. The branches are doing something and they want all the missionaries to sing. I don't know who would ever want that - but oh well. It was a funny night cause the lady that was in charge started to roast one of the missionaries because he was breaking the rules and flirting with her daughter last Sunday - yeah that was fun. This night we got Elder Albertson in our companionship because his companions were leaving to Thessaloniki for a week. Elder Albertson was with us until Saturday.

Wednesday, nothing to interesting happened except I had to wait an hour and a half to get my metro pass. Cause they changed it all and we got a call saying we had to do it this day - yeah that was pretty fun.

Thursday was a fun day. In the morning we got to take over the other companionship's job at the Salvation Army handing out clothes. They are all refugees and they have nothing but they don't take any of the clothes that you try to give them. It sucks and it made me sad. We brought all of the baby clothes for this lady and her son up. She didn't want any and them. We had to tell her to leave but she said she needed clothes. We told her we brought them all and she then just stormed out with nothing it was weird.

Friday, was a good day we got to have a lesson with Ralph which is always exciting. Then there was a baptism for a little girl in the English branch. We had one of our less actives there named Manolis. He loved it and even came to church on Sunday - so that was good.

Saturday, the only exciting thing that we did was change back companions so we were back to just having two of us again.

Sunday was a really good day. On our way to church we again got stopped by Zoe, an old lady we met last Sunday. She had called us to talk with us during the week. She just loves us for some reason it is really fun.  She even offered to clean our apartment for free, which was a little weird, and gladly we have rules so she can't - haha.

Me sitting in the kings chair

Today was an awesome day, we went to the original olympic stadium. It was so cool! The track is really weird shaped it is elongated - so yeah it was weird. I got to run a lap on it so that was cool! This was the stadium for the 1896 Olympic games. They have a museum. They have all of the torches from the summer games since then which is really cool. As we were leaving the stadium we ran into a couple that stopped us. They were Mormon and really nice. We talked and they bought us some gelato - that was cool. 

Spiritual thought from the week. Go and read Alma chapter 5. It is so amazing! I read it this week and it is so awesome we need to apply all of the principles from this chapter.

Sorry for the long email but it was a good week.

Love,

Elder Halverson

Pictures and Videos from the Olympic stadium

Nerf Wars last Monday

We drew pictures for each section of lesson one of preach my gospel for district meeting