2/23/13

Today was awesome. We woke up and went for a run in the park, or in my case a jog that was probably slower than the pace of someone walking. But something’s better than nothing yaa? Then we headed into Madrid for English classes. So fun. We were going around talking about what we like to do and then all of a sudden an older man in our group, his name is John Anthony, he’s sweet, and he turns and looks at me and was like Faith! Do you like bullfighting? Haha so random…and I continued to tell him how I haven’t seen one and all this stuff. It was funny though, it kinda took me off guard considering he remembered my name from me telling him a couple weeks ago. Turns out everyone in the class don’t like bullfights. They think it’s kinda gory and cruel to the animal as well. That was kind of interesting; I thought all Spaniards had this love for it but apparently not. After class we ate our lunches we brought, Blanca made us a bocadillo. Then we were able to walk next door to the Temple to do baptisms! It was so pretty inside I loved it. Today was Landon’s first time so that was exciting too! For confirmations, they were guys from our ward in Alcalá and they said those prayers so fast. I even tried reading off the card as he said it but he spoke insanely fast. But it definitely was a cool experience having that. Then for baptisms Stan baptized me so that was nice. I am so grateful we have such awesome directors; they definitely make this trip so awesome. After the Temple we went back to the National Geographic store because it seriously is so cool. Then we checked out the Nike Madrid store as well. Everything was still expensive, but it definitely so fun to go and see and look at everything. I love being able to live so close to Madrid it is so nice. On the train back there were tons of people, we later found out there was a big demonstration going on in Madrid, so that was good we avoided all of that craziness today, because I loved everything about today and had so much fun.