Week 14

Hey guys,

So I organized this email a little. So there is a paragraph for the miracle of the week, fun, food, and other stuff. You know, the important things. 

So daylight savings was this weekend so we change our schedule. Now we wake up at 7:00 instead of 7:30 and go to bed at 11:00 instead of 11:30. That also means P-day ends at 6:30 now. 

Fun: We had tons of fun this week. We had some good service on a new farm this week and we went to a Halloween party last night. We haven't been working on farms much lately cause the work here in Zamora has really picked up. We had 2 days this week with 5 lessons. But Saturday we were able to go up to Benavente to visit a less active member and do some service. He makes cheese so he has about 600 goats and sheep, so we thought that's what we would be helping with, but instead he had us painting. We were there for most of the day cause it doesn't make sense to drive for 2.5 hours there and back and only visit for 1 hour. So I painted a big tractor and part of a barn. I was actually thinking of Emma and Erin the whole time. They would have been in heaven.Painting and animals. Then last night we went to a Halloween party, that's a pretty fun story. Last week we were just talking to people on the street and we were asking people about Halloween cause it's not a huge thing here. This one lady was actually prettycool though and said her husband lived in the US for a while and loves Halloween. She invited us to a neighborhood party cause she wanted to know if I thought it was a legit American Halloween party. It was. We had to be creative with our costumes since we still had to have missionary attire, I'll attach some pictures. But we definitely stood out, everyone else was pretty scary looking. They don't mess around here. 

Food: this week was kind of boring as far as food goes, but I think this is an important category to have. We spent a lot of time with Spaniards this week, so the lady from the Halloween party offered to teach us how to make Spanish tortillas. I'm super excited for that. She makes some good ones too, like really basic but good. Some people try to hard and put hot dogs or something in it and it's just not good. The other Spanish food we eat a lot is cocido. We ate it 3 times this week. It's the essential Spanish fall/winter meal. I would recommend finding a way to try it. 

Other: So this last week we had Intercambios here in Zamora. That was super fun. I was with elder tribett. We had 2 lessons, one was with the hippies. It was really funny watching his reactions to the prayer circle and the other weird stuff we do. This next week we're going to vallodolid for Intercambios with the zone leaders. That will be really fun. I'll try to get some pictures for cari. I think dad asked about what kind of workouts we do in Zamora... We go running every morning and take a soccer ball with us and a basketball. Then if we see someone playing soccer we play with them, if not we stop somewhere and play a game of HORSE or something. On days where we dot have as much time we have an app called "7M Workout" that's pretty good. We found a good 5k route that passes by a few courts though, so that's my favorite. Its actually cool hearing about young men's. You guys are doing some cool things. That song they sang is one we sang in the CCM. Super cool song. I kind of wish I would have been more involved in young men's and taken it more seriously. I have a completely different view on that now. 

I attached some pictures of our adventure this morning with the rio duero and the castle. That was super cool. We took some cheesy pictures too. I'm still debating whether or not I should send those. We had some fun though. The other ones are from the Halloween party. 

Talk to you next week. 

Josh