Gijon * Oviedo * YSA activity
Despite staying up late we did our best to get an early start so we could make our 1:30 lunch appointment with Stewart's most recent companion. He had planned to meet them at the church in Gijon for a church picnic. Gijon is about 3 1/2 hours from San Sebastián.
We enjoyed meeting Elder Lords (Stewart's companion for the last month of his mission) and Elder Lords' new companion of less than 24 hours. We learned that Elder Lords was from Idaho where his Stake President was my cousin's Husband (Grant Francis) and was good friends with Stewart's 2nd cousin (Cameron Francis). Small world in the church. Stewart and Elder Lords recently enjoyed teaching and baptizing an 80 year old Spanish man they meet on the street while he was out riding his bike. After the 2 hour lunch break - the Elders were off to work and we were off to Oviedo, an area where Stewart served for 6 months nearly a year ago.
We stayed in a hotel in Oviedo since we were only there 1 night. Stewart gave us a walking tour of the older district of Oviedo and we found a great place for a tapas dinner. We love the tapas concept. Small, yummy, inexpensive appetizers that if eaten in groups makes a light dinner. Stewart introduced us to a baked bean dish called, favada. We also sampled our first churros con chocolate; we're going to need to have that again!
We arrived at the Oviedo chapel just in time for the YSA activity. The bishop was there and about 10 YSA. (The bishop met his wife at a YSA activity and you could tell he was doing everything in his power to get these kids married to each other - the problem is - the small dating pool).
Maren jumped in to play the piano for the opening devotional and then we played games until 10:00 - EFY games like "big bootie" except they called it Pedro, Pablo - which incidentally at the end of the game Maren was the winner, despite speaking no Spanish. We also played "symbols" and the "states" games (though we used countries, in Spanish - which was a bit harder for the non-spanish speakers).
The activity went on until 10:30 p.m. The spaniards are night owls, but it's taking a toll on us, we are tired.
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| I can't believe we fit in this car |
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| Lunch in Gijon |
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| Oviedo walk |
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| Oviedo dinner |
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| YSA activity, Oviedo ward |
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