ΟΠΑ!!!

Hey everyone!

Well I am just going to apologize now this is going to be a long one because it has certainly been an interesting and busy week, but I promise the next one will be short.

Ok, so not this last Monday but the 23rd, we made a friend named Aley playing soccer. We are probably going to play soccer with him again on Saturday which is cool.

Tuesday and Wednesday last week were pretty uneventful days, but we did order some Domino's on Tuesday which was good.

Thursday we went and played basketball and made some good new friends which was pretty cool. They were really good at basketball.

Friday was a good day that night we went and played basketball again. This time we played with a girl named Emma and the Sisters. Emma has an interesting story. Basically she is a youth and was baptized this year but then her parents flipped out and made her remove her name from the church. She now has to report home every Sunday to make sure she isn't going to church anymore. It is really sad but she still reads the Book of Mormon and she loves the missionaries. She likes to hang out with us sometimes and she is really cool. It was fun it get to know her. 

Οχι day

Saturday, wow this was a good day it was a Greek holiday Οχι day. It is big holiday because everywhere closes. Luckily we had an activity at the church. It was a good activity about how we need to be strong in our standards and say no to stuff. -oh yeah οχι in english means no. After our meeting the church had some greek food for us and also some Greek music. We had a really good time. We have a crazy old lady in the branch who snuck into the kitchen and grabbed a plate to smash and yell opa because that is what they do. Luckily somebody stopped her but she still was shouting opa all night it was a fun time.

Sunday, was just a normal day with meetings at church and studies. It was a good relaxing Sabbath.

Spot of bible picture

Monday, was an awesome day we got a treat because President and Sister Heder took us to go and see Corinth and a cool city called Naphlia. It was really cool. At Corinth we went to the spot where they took the bible picture which was really cool. We also went up to a fortress that they had on the mountain there and you could look over the city and the ocean it was beautiful.

Then we went to this little city called Naphlia which was the origonal capital of Greece or where they declared their independence. We were able to go to a cool fortress and walk along the ocean it was amazing and really nice to see how old Greece was before they built up the concrete jungle of Athens. It was just nice to get out of the city. That is why I didn't email on Monday.

Tuesday, we had plans to do our shopping and emails. Just as we were about to go out the door we got a call that they needed help at a refugee camp. So we changed and headed out to the refugee camp. They were closing down the camp and they had planned on having a week to move out but it got changed to a day so we went over and moved stuff all day it was a great opportunity to serve.

​That night we started an exchange with Elder Cziesla who was over from Cyprus with his companion who was at the Leadership meeting so he was with us.

Wednesday, we had Elder Cziesla with us all day so we again could not email so other than that is was a regular day.

Today we had a lesson with our investigator Alex at the church. That went really well he is even going to come to church on Sunday which is amazing! Then we had companionship study with President Heder it was really cool we talked about the Atonement and how it is only going to work for us if we accept it.

Well I think that is it sorry again for the long one but it was a good week. Also this week I realized the importance of reading the Book of Mormon everyday some days were super busy and we didn't have time to do any studies but I was able to read just a chapter from the Book of Mormon and it is so amazing the spirit it brings to our lives.

Σας αγαπάω,

Elder Halverson

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