Valencia! The City of Oranges, Conferences, BurgerKing, and more...
This week we spent several days in the beautiful city of Valencia. It is a long 4 hour drive that occasionally rewards you with a breathtaking view of Montserrat, the Mediterranean Sea, or abandoned castles atop a distant hill. We drove down on Tuesday and booked a room at a Holiday Inn Express which ultimately provided a false sense of security that seeing something familiar brings. Small room and no water pressure was offset somewhat by it's proximity to the church and Burger King (which was totally legit and I actually made two visits to get my fix of American cuisine). We had a wonderful zone conference with the 24 missionaries of the Zone Sur. We are down to only two zones, the North and the South. Lunch was a fast-food place's paella that included snails which led to a lot of challenges to see who was brave enough to eat. We also were able visit all the missionary pisos in Valencia and help with small repairs that will make our young (and old) missio...