Kings day

Hello family and friends,

This week has been loaded with many marvelous adventures and miracles!
I feel that throughout the year and a half that I have been writing
these emails I have failed to truly express the absolute culture
difference there is between Spain and the United States. In the early
days of the United States we celebrated two holidays, first, the
Fourth of July and second, thanksgiving. Obviously throughout time
more holiday have been added to the United States Calendar. But the
point is, is that there are not many holidays celebrated the the
United States in comparison to Spain. I can't even express how many
holidays are celebrated in this country. Let me try to name a few: (oh
and by the way, every holiday I am going to list is celebrated more
extravagantly than we celebrate Christmas) ok... Semana Santa, día de
Reyes, feria de Abril, Halloween, la Navidad, día De los Santos, los
moros y cristianos, día del virgen María, año nuevo, viernes santo, la
pascua, día internacional de los trabajadores, día de la Asunción,
fiesta nacional de España, día de la constitución, inmaculada
concepción, san Valentín, and every single town has its own party for
some virgin and for whatever else they can think of. Basically they
LOVE to party here and It usually consists of alcohol, fire works, and
screaming.

So this week they celebrated kings day! They have this huge parade
where they go in big floats and throw literally tons of candy and toys
to the literally thousands of people along the streets. We were
invited by some investigators to go and watch it and it was... cool!

I'm feeling better this week, so that's good. I'm averaging a sickness
every 6 months, hopefully that pattern keeps up.

I love the Book of Mormon! It just teaches such goodness! I am
thankful for the great men and woman who have sacrificed so much to
give us the Book of Mormon and the Bible.

I love you all I hope you have a great week!

Elder owens!