Mars Hill

 Every Saturday the sister missionaries go to Mars Hill to pick up trash.  Mars Hill is significant because of Paul and this past week we celebrated the gospel in Greece for 50 years by the missionaries sharing testimonies at Mars Hill only we had appointments so we will catch that next week when the new missionaries are brought to Mars Hill. 

Elder Bradley from England has only a week and 1/2 left.  He came to Athens to finish out his mission and all the Elders are in quarantine until the end of the week so he is staying with the Reidheads.  Nothing like going out in a blaze of glory.  This is on the way to Mars Hill. 

I just thought this was interesting what they had to entertain families in Greece. 

Sister Reidhead and I paused from picking up glass, cigarette butts, pop and beer cans to pose with Athens behind us.  We are keeping each other sane.  We laugh a lot, a lot!  While we were picking up glass, a few school age children were watching and said "Bravo"  and "Congratulations" to us.  Then a couple from Boston after watching us, picked up glass and put it in our garbage sack.  They had just gotten married and were on their honeymoon.  We visited with a man from Quebec that was there with 20 other people that were going to ride their bikes on Crete.  He spends the winters in Florida.  We told him he needed to bring his bike to Utah to ride all the cool trails there.  We could see his mind considering it.  I spoke a little French and he said I had a good accent.  That is the second time I have been told that.  Life would be much easier if we were in a French or Cantonese speaking country.  Maybe.  Greek is amazingly different and unique.  We are doing duolingo but I fear it is not enough. 

We are saving the Parthenon for November when tourist season is over.  It was so crowded today.  It was also lovely weather.  Hurray for cooler weather.  We were so happy to visit with people that spoke English...real English without an accent that makes you focus so hard and still not get what they are saying.   We are having a branch social today and the sister missionaries were handing out invites to people.  I was quite impressed that they would think to do that.  We will see what happens!