Well, we had a great week! On Monday night we had the privilege to have a Family Home Evening with President & Sister Freestone, Elder & Sister Clark and Sean. We had a yummy pizza from Domino's for dinner and then we had a spiritual thought by President Freestone on gratitude. We watch the Mormon Message about living in Thanksgiving daily and we spoke of something we're grateful for. It was pretty nice. We got to Sean and he started talking, and talking, and talking and he almost shared his whole life story speaking about what he's grateful for. It was quite epic! xD But all in all a good FHE.
We also got to meet with Kostas and his girlfriend this week. We drove back out to the little village they live in. We met with both of them this time. They are really cool and nice! We just spoke with them about God and who He is to them. Then they asked us about marriage and family. We explained a little about the temple and about eternal marriage. They seemed to like the idea. We'll see if they can commit themselves enough.
We had an exchange with Elder Barber and Elder Hatton this Friday. It was a really good experience. I got to spend the day with Elder Barber and I discovered that he's an extraordinary missionary. I was very impressed with him. I saw the Lord's mercy in our life this week. When we woke up it was raining like nothing I've ever seen in Greece. All of us were just really dreading the moment we had to go outside after our studies. So, I prayed that we wouldn't get drenched in my morning prayer. Then as soon as we finished our language study the train stopped. We didn't even have a drop hit us during all the time we were out! We also had the mercy to have a lesson with a man that the Elders had been trying to meet for weeks without success. We just walked to the guy's shop and he was there and available and we were able to have pretty good lesson with him about God's nature and how the gospel could help him. Afterwards Elder Barber said that he hadn't ever expected to be able to meet with him. He'd always been telling them that he was busy...
I saw the hand of the Lord in our lives on Sunday too. We got to church and were helping Ralph with the Sacrament. After we finished with that and came out of the Sacrament Room we bumped into to gentlemen from Africa (some country I can't spell or remember) and they were looking around rather forlorn. We spoke to them and welcomed them in to the meeting room for them to have a seat. I got to speak with them a little before the meeting started and it turned out that they'd been invited by someone to come to church. I didn't catch who invited them the first time and we got talking more. They are French-speaking but one of them had decent English. They did great during the meeting. They both tried to sing along with the hymns, which impressed me immensely.
As we got talking after the Sacrament Meeting I asked them again who brought them and they pointed and said that it had been that "old lady over there". I followed their finger and I saw Helen at sitting over there! Helen is and elderly lady that likes to speak to herself. She comes to church every Sunday and also goes to the branch that is in the afternoon at the Akropolis. She isn't all there and couldn't be baptized because of it; however, she has a sweet spirit. I was impressed just how much the church means to her to see that she would invite some people to come to church with her. Even when you don't understand everything, the Spirit that you feel in church makes a great difference and anyone who doesn't harden his heart can feel it.
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