Catching-up 9-21

Sorry to have missed so many days. I'll try to catch-up. Thursday we went to Espanol Escuela and the teacher (different from yesterday) decided to take on a field trip to an art exhibit. Art exhibits are not usually my thing but when they are in a language that I do not understand it is really not my thing. Lynette and I came home and went for a quick ride (only about 35k or so). I spent the rest of the day on a conference call with work. That's pretty cool to think you can be in Spain and participate in a meeting in Utah.

Friday we went to Segovia and then to Toledo. Segovia is the city where the Romans built an aqueduct with amazing engineering. They also have the castle there that Walt Disney used to design the castle at Disneyland. We loved the city. Very narrow roads with old buildings and churches etc..etc.. etc..

After Segovia, we drove to Toledo. Toledo is another old city with etc....etc....etc.... but it has a few it's own unique features. Toledo is known for making swords and other weapons of war. Every other shop sales swords knives and armor. Weston and I had a great time looking at the weapons Toledo had to offer.

As we drove into Toledo and checked into our hotel, we were told that we had to move our car because the Vuelta was going to be coming down the road the hotel is on. To most people this would have been bad news. To us, it was great news. The Vuelta is the "tour of Spain" cycling tour. It is one of the biggest cycling races in Europe. 21 days of stage racing just like the Tour de France. The Toledo stage was a Time trial race and the next to the last day of the Vuelta. We watched the race just as the racers were starting up a hill then we went to the finish line and watched. Very exciting, very cool for cycling fans.

Sunday was back to church. I Love our Branch. Madison led the music in Sacrament meeting and the new stake president was the main speaker. Again i didn't understand any of it (shouldn't I start to understand a little by now, it's been 3.5 weeks). But the Stake President brought a light and hope to the branch that seemed evident to me. Lynette, Madison and Weston left after Sacrament meeting to go to Catholic mass. Our friends have a son that signs in the cathedrals choir. I asked them how it was and their response was that they are glad we don't have incense in our church. But they did say the singing was good. I taught the english version of priesthood. It seemed to go well I had 3 class members Solomon from Uganda, Jared a returned missionary from California and Ezekiel from Argentina by way of Utah. Stephen the new convert from Africa has flipped out. I called him this week to make sure he would come. He just keep repeating over and over again that he was a christian and that he had a bible. It was weird. It's like he had a breakdown or something. The missionaries said he has been the same way when they contact him.

Today was back to the Espanol grind. We studied most of the day with a break to take Weston to seminary.

That pretty much catches us up.