Eβδομάδα 64: 🌻🎬 andddd action!

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Some more music videos in the works! So fun being able to hear GREEK efy songs for the 1st time ever. That's kept us all busy lately, shooting em is pretty fun since none of us our pros and we just gotta work with what we got. We get some great responses from the videos tho so it's good stuff ;) We're still working on getting more creative. 

We also have decided that instead of putting on a live sacrament meeting for all the members and our friends each Sunday, that we'd just prerecord everything and make an "episode" kinda deal every week for anyone to watch church. Basically meaning we don't have to give weekly talks anymore and we can assign members to send in a video and we'll put it all together. Our 1st episode was a hit tho and we had 60ish members tune it! That's both Thessaloniki and Athens. But still, quadruple the normal amount we have each Sunday in the Thess branch! Makes me wonder how everyone else is doing church and if all the other missionaries have as much responsibility as we feel to make sure the members are being spiritually lifted each week. Partaking of the sacrament is still banned in Greece by the government even though the Greeks think their "cup" everyone will drink from is immune to everything, so that's that. Restrictions are slowly being lifted, but still there. 

Starting today if we're caught without a mask outside we get fined. Masks and heat don't mix in case you're wondering. Far as we know we're still on missionary quarantine until further notice even though the country quarantine ended today. 

We had a mission discussion on the Family Proclamation to the World and wow do I love that. Families are so central to Heavenly Father's plan for our eternal exhalation and eternal happiness! I sure am blessed with the greatest family and am grateful each day for them ♡

Have a great week everybody!

Love,
Sister Gale

PICS!
1-4 behind the scenes of shooting music videos
5 accidental twinnin w cute bunnies to go along with us
6 painted a logo for our new Πάντα Κοντά FB page 
7 1st "episode" of church 








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