Roundabouts and Switzerland

This week we had some great experiences teaching the gospel. We got to go visit a referral from Switzerland xD out in a village out of Athens. His name is Kostas and he's Greek but he lived in Switzerland for a little while. It was really cool for us to go and visit him. It took us a super long time but we got there and he turned out to be a great man. He is very sincere and was taught quite a bit already. He said he was reading from the Book of Mormon and how he wanted to learn more still.

What I feel, was the Hand of the Lord in his life, is that he got in contact with the church in Switzerland at bus stop close to his house. He'd only been in Switzerland for 2 months when he met the missionaries and only a month later he had to leave again. I really think that he went to Switzerland to be able to come into contact with the church in a more neutral (no pun intended) setting. I really hope that he'll take this opportunity and continue with the church up to being able to strengthen the kingdom.

We had some other cool experiences. On Wednesday morning we called President Freestone if we could come over to his house (down the road) to pick up some desks for our apartment from the  ones he has in storage. He said sure. So we took the van and drove over. When we got in the house we met President Freestone drenched from head to toe. It turns out that a pipe had broken in the room with the water heater and water was just spraying everywhere. President had tried to find the valve that would close off the water. During the time we were there he managed to find the valve and someone came over and we could get repairs arranged. I'm just glad that we'd decided that morning to try and pick up the desks. Because, we'd considered doing it another day and then President Freestone might not have noticed the leakage for a much longer time.

We also had an exchange on Thursday. That was really fun. We got to be outside all day doing contacting. I worked with Elder Kopischke and we said that we'd talk with everyone we crossed paths with. That was a great experience. We managed to give out 9 BoM to people on the street throughout the day just speaking with them all. We also met some very interesting people. We met one funny guy who spoke to us on and on explaining that he didn't really like words because they can't truly explain reality. (He sure like to hear himself talk considering how much he hated words and language xD). That was funny and just before him we met an elderly Greek man that got quite worked up about the Swiss. Why didn't they just give a check to Greece with all their money to help the Greeks. It was just all so unfair.... I understand that he was upset but I didn't quite know how Switzerland could pay for all of Greece's debt. Well, it was at least a very entertaining day.

Driving has been a treat here in Athens. People are crazy on the roads. Wow, it is quite amazing how crazy people drive. And you have to adapt or you don't survive xD So, I'll probably be worse driver for having driven here xD That's ok I guess... They do have some really strange rules and things on the streets here. I found them quite difficult to adjust to. In Greece, the person coming into the roundabout has the right of way. So you sometime have people just stopping in the middle of the roundabout to let someone in. It is quite disconcerting. I've also seen some strange stuff like stop signs and a traffic light right next to it. I also saw a stop sign coming into a roundabout. I seems that they like their stop  signs here. NOT that anyone pays attention to them xD

What our screen looks like on an average computer day.

It has been a great week and many cool things have happened. We're going to have a specialized training next Tuesday which I'm looking forward to and another exchange.

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