La Reunion de Domingo

Another early morning! We got up early because we had no idea how we were going to get to the meeting room! The numbers Natalie was given were not working! At first we were a little worried, a little frustrated, and with only three hours of sleep, a LOT tired (due to our lovely hostal lady-we blame everything that went wrong on her!). Leanne and Cheryl were ok with getting up early because of the great motivater, Starbucks, right down the street. Problem, when you have a city that stays up till four in the morning, they aren´t exactly ready for business at eight! We had a solution, walk up the street a couple more blocks and hit the next Starbucks. Yeah, no. Not working for us! So turning around, we pasted smiles on our faces, and marched back in high heels to meet the other girls who were still trying to contact the meeting people. So what were we going to do? We had a brilliant idea! Hop on the metro and just go find it! We all know how good we are at finding things! So we had a vote. It turned out that this was probably not our best option. So a few trans-atlantic cell phone calls later (we would appreciate any donations towards that bill!), Cheryl´s Uncle Bob phones at only about three in the morning his time. Pretty eager to help us out, he arranged for us to be picked up and taken care of before we knew what was happening! Thanks Uncle Bob! We love you and want to forgive you for making us haul 60 pounds of Bibles around Europe! JK, we actually really appreciate the biceps we have developed!
Anyhow, we were picked up at the metro stop by a very nice man, Gaston. We hadn´t yet been exposed to the European greeting (double cheek air kiss) and were a little shocked at first! We followed Gaston around the corner to his house and met his wife, Milca, who had prepared a huge breakfast for us! Cheryl and I finally got our coffee!!!!!!!! They even had comfort food such as cocoa puffs! As well as this most amazing cheese. We safely delivered the bibles and calendars to Gaston and the extra weight was totally worth it when we saw the look on his face. He was thrilled! Apparently SUVs and mini vans are pretty much non-existent in Europe so they had to shuttle us to meeting in several different cars. We met a ton of wonderful people (there´s about 20 or so in the Madrid meeting) and got a ton more double cheek air kisses. With all the cheek contact, we started wondering exactly how these people keep such beautiful skin! Meeting was interesting. Amanda and Leanne understood pretty much nothing, but Cheryl, Char and Natalie were able to pick up quite a bit. They have a 30 min Sunday School, launch right into Breaking of Bread for an hour, followed immediatly by a 30 min Gospel meeting. This was a little hard to pick up with the lack of spanish skills but we managed it. For Breaking of Bread we got to talk in meeting. Well we actually just read our own names in our letters of commendation because the brother was having some difficulties with it.
Anyway this will be continued soon as we have much more to tell you and this day was not over yet. Photos are arriving soon! We promise!!!!!