So my week hasn't been as eventful as last week but it was still a really good week. I was also able to give out my first book of Mormon this week it was actually pretty cool the guy also said that he wanted to come to church. He gave us his number we tried to call him and the number didn't exist so yeah. We were supposed to have 6 appointments this week and only 2 actually went through. They were the two that we had with members. We were supposed to have 3 lessons with investigators two had work come up which is understandable and we should be meeting with them soon. The other one we called the day before organized the lesson and then she didn't show up. I guess that is the life in the GAM.
Contacting was good but tuff. We did another whiteboard and made a friend which was good. Then we did a lot of bench contacting where we find someone to sit by and then ask if I can practice my Greek on them. Most of the time when they see you are trying to learn Greek they are really understanding which is cool. We also did basketball again. Before we went a friend we made last time called us and asked us to go with him which was awesome. We are going to have a meeting with him soon so hopefully that goes well. His girlfriend wants to come as well which is also awesome!!
Contacting was good but tuff. We did another whiteboard and made a friend which was good. Then we did a lot of bench contacting where we find someone to sit by and then ask if I can practice my Greek on them. Most of the time when they see you are trying to learn Greek they are really understanding which is cool. We also did basketball again. Before we went a friend we made last time called us and asked us to go with him which was awesome. We are going to have a meeting with him soon so hopefully that goes well. His girlfriend wants to come as well which is also awesome!!
Last Monday after I emailed all you guys we went to the church where we met up with all the other missionaries in Athens. We played some basketball and had a barbecue which was really fun. Apparently just the fact of being an American makes you good at basketball. I am really not good but compared to everyone else I was actually pretty good. I guess that is what you get when you play American sports with Europeans.
Tuesday we had district meeting and a member named Heidi from the English branch made us a lunch of Chinese food. Holy cow it was soooo good.
Wednesday ok so in Greece they have some really good juices but they have it in like every fruit flavor that you can think of. So this week I decided to go with strawberry and banana so I decided to mix the two. If any of you have ever had danimals smoothies it was like the exact same as that so that was pretty cool.
Thursday, well really nothing happened on Thursday except we went down into Glyfada which was an area that was shut down as its own area and integrated into ours because it had no success. I can see why we went to visit our less active members there and got yelled at a couple times which was pretty fun.
Friday, again we didn't do much except we did basketball contacting again. We met up with one of our friends who plays there. We are going to meet up with him again sometime soon which is cool.
Saturday, nothing to eventful happened except for this night we were able to watch the Saturday morning session of conference Live!! Holy cow there were so many great messages and we should all definitely try to apply the teaching from conference because they are totally applicable to all of us in every aspect of our lives. I know that we do have a prophet and apostles that lead and guide this church today and that is such an amazing thing to have.
Sunday, was really busy for us. We got up and went to church. It was fast Sunday. People got up to bear there testimonies and I couldn't understand but it was good. There were so many visitors that returned to Athens that served here 10-12 years ago. That is when the mission was apostate and you could really tell by some of the stories that they told us haha. After church we had a dinner appointment with the Thorntons. With all the other new missionaries. They are from America and work at the Embassy so they get all American food. It was awesome! We had some Hawaiian Haystacks and they were really good. It felt just like home there haha. After dinner we returned to the Church to watch the Sunday Morning session of conference which was again amazing.
That is all for this week, I would like to leave you all with a challenge for this week. I would challenge you all to pick one thing from this last general conference and apply it into your lives. I can say that it really will make you happier in your life as you do so. I love you all.
Love,
Elder Brigham Halverson
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