Hello!
This week went fast
here in Πάφος.
We spent a lot of
our week providing service at a horse farm and pulling LOTS of weeds in a
garden. I'm talking bushwhacking level weeds. The horses are race horses
and are majestic and beautiful. There is a horse with a very bad infection on
its leg, and so we take it to the sea to soak in the saltwater.
We were able to
teach English class on Wednesday—talk about stressful! The people who come
are mostly adults from Russia and Eastern Europe. It is very stressful
trying to teach grammar I don't understand myself. I'm more comfortable
teaching Greek grammar, LOL!
We met with Mary
and Evelyn (names have been changed), and it was lovely. They are going to
Latvia for Christmas, so we won't see them for a while. We were able to
talk to a kid named Ανδρέας (every Greek or Cypriate is named George
or Andreas, BTW!). He had given the missionaries some trouble in the past and
very aggressively asked what we were doing. We explained that no, we weren't
Jehovah's Witnesses or Jewish or Muslim. We had a 30 minute conversation with
him telling him why we leave home and serve for two years. He is very religious
and a strong Orthodox member. We invited him to church, but he didn't end up
coming. We also visited our landlord again last night. He and his wife are so
nice to us. They help us with our Greek and always give us food! They said
it is not enough to only call our mothers twice a year. “MUST BE ONCE PER WEEK,”
she said! They offered their computers and internet if we ever want to call
home, LOL. We haven't been able to contact the man we talked to last Sunday but
are hoping to stop by again tonight.
So yeah, we do lots
of service and walk up and down the big hills here. It smells like
cigarette smoke 24/7, but you get used to it.
Remember that God
loves you and guides your life. It is sometimes harder to accept His help than
it is to push it away. But, please accept it. We get to see God's hand in every
person's life everyday here in the mission field. The comfort that Christ can
bring and the love of our Heavenly Father is unmatched. Everybody go read
Chapter 12 of Isaiah (2 Nephi 22 as well!).
Υια!
- Πρεσβύτερος
Μούλερ (Elder Müller)
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