Piraeus

Monday, April 22, 2019

Hello, guys! This week, we had zone conference and transfers. I am now in Piraeus.

TUESDAY, April 16th: We had transfers. I am now with Elder F. He is my first American companion on my mission. We are in Piraeus, and it's beautiful here. It is very different from Kato Patisia, lol. Elders A. and A. slept at our apartment that the night with us because we had zone conference the next day. Elder F. and I had a miracle-filled first day and a meal with a less-active member who gave me the album Back in Black by AC/DC on vinyl!

WEDNESDAY, April 17th: We had zone conference, and it was all about technology training. I finally got my phone to start working that afternoon, which was nice. We took the APs (Assistants to the Mission President) to Piraeus to do finding and traumatized them with stories about the metro and things getting stolen from missionaries. I was exaggerating a little bit because they were so nervous, hahaha, but to make it even better is that as we were walking up to the apartment door (after successfully managing to not get robbed on the metro), we got a phone call telling us that a member of our district got his phone stolen. It was the icing on top and sealed the fear into their hearts, mwahahaha. We even got some interesting responses that night at our whiteboard that made them even more fearful. But, we also met a cool guy from Germany.

THURSDAY, April 18th: I finished fixing my phone and getting it set up. We also had district leader training at the church building and interviews with President Anderson. We had a whiteboard with the Trunky Trio (joking of course), and it went pretty well. Having Facebook is great for contacting.

FRIDAY, April 19th: We had Weekly Planning, and we saw N. and A. at their new shop and had a conversation with them. We had another whiteboard with the Trio, but this time in their area, and it was poppin’. Elder H. told me about Nicosia and how everyone is doing. It's good to hear how people are progressing after you have been gone for a while. 

SATURDAY, April 20th: We had studies and then went out to find two addresses and speak to everyone on the way. This area is not the most alive right now in regards to teaching, so we spend most of our time on the streets speaking to people. We met a craaaaazy Albanian guy who loved us waaay too much, and a guy who told us how only the 12 Olympian Gods and the ancient Greek religion is true and how HE is God. Though if you look deep into the ancient Greek religion, just like EVERY single religion in the world, you see relationships to ours due to the fact that the gospel was given to Adam, and all religions are fragments of that first, one, and true religion given from God to man. We went to Family Home Evening, and I am still a champion of the egg and spoon game. 

SUNDAY, April 21st: We had the last talks from Elder and Sister Finlayson before they return home this week. We had a potluck after church, and that is always nice. I saw Brother and Sister Hoppe from my stake in sacrament meeting as well! Talk about two worlds colliding. We did a whiteboard in Syntagma with all of the missionaries, as well as music finding. It was the busiest whiteboard that I think I have ever seen, and all of the missionaries were smashing the new technology to get them contact deets (details). We met a group of American girls, and I swear, I met one of them before. Like, it was the same feeling I had when I saw the Hoppes came into church, but it turned out that I hadn't met her before. But her and her friend are like obsessed with our religion and love it. They have a group chat called "LDS Ladies" but aren't members. It was a strange but cool experience. 

Brother and Sister Hoppe from Florida

MONDAY, April 22nd: Today, we went to the Archaeological Museum to see some cool historical things. Then, we got the spare key from the Finlaysons because we locked ourselves out this morning accidentally... :) Later, we ate lunch with the trio and got ice cream as well. 

I am excited for Easter this coming week here. Yes, it is a week later than normal in Greece [Editor's note: See more about Orthodox Easter]. We will be going to the Holy Light (Το Αιγιο Φως).

- Elder Müller