Phillip in Madrid and Parla
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P-day trip Trip to Manzaneres El Real Castle (just outside of Madrid, close to Villalba) as a district plus the Barrio 2 Hermanas.
 Not quite an American sized "Knight in shining armor."
 Barrio 4 district: Hermana Bell, Hermana Svetlecic, Elder Scoville, Elder Sewell, Me, and Elder Cutler.
 Cool spiral staircase.
Fun window pictures at the top.
 This is the oldest restaurant in the World! This picture was taken by a woman from Utah who ran into us and was so happy to see missionaries! Hermana Bell has a new companion, Hermana Davenport from Washington, and Elder Sewell has his trainee, Elder Meek from Farmington, UT.
 This is a little difficult to read because of the glare, but it is a Guinness World Record Certificate stating: "The oldest restaurant in the world is Restaurante Botin, in Calle Cuchilleros, Madrid, Spain, which opened in 1725 and has been operating ever since; it even retains the original 18th century firewood oven. It is currently run by the Gonzalez family."
 Elder Cutler on "his"street ("Cuchillero" means cutler, or knife-maker, in Spanish).
Me making my steel-cut oats!
My first baptism in Parla on my first night there (Jhon Alvaro and Angela Aguirre and their two sons, Jhon Daniel and little Juan Manuel who just turned eight).
 The birthday cake Nichole sent me, with all twenty-four candles! It was the "funfetti" kind with the little colored bits inside. I felt like a kid again!
 Eating with Aldo, our branch mission leader, at a place that boasts "posiblemente las hamburguesas mas grandes del mundo" (possibly the biggest hamburgers in the world). I know it looks like an optical illusion, but it was really that big.