Transfer 1, week 3: No blisters!

I'm pretty much recovered from my cold. It was pretty bad the first week I was here but nowhere near as bad as what mom had. I tried to play it down with my companions so that it wouldn't prevent us from learning and doing the work. They told me this week that they didn't even realize I had a cold. I used a lot of Kleenex and my saline bottle was a huge blessing. I also took a lot of Mucinex. After the blessing I received from my Elders the Monday we were here it all turned around. I still cough sometimes but nowhere near as badly.

I exercise every day. They have exercise bikes, ellipticals, medicine balls and weights. We play volleyball a lot. I'm learning how to shoot baskets for basketball. I play soccer sometimes with Elder Mitchell and Elder Wride but it's mostly just passing the ball around and trying to do cool tricks. I rode almost 8 miles earlier this week on one of the exercise bikes. I felt so good afterwards.

I have an amazing thing to tell you! I have seen a miracle. I HAVEN'T HAD ANY BLISTERS THE ENTIRE TIME I'VE BEEN HERE! Even wearing the shoes that gave me blisters the day before I left on my mission I know that it's all because of the blessing you gave me the day I left on my mission. You blessed me that my feet would be strong and they have. My feet have cramped up three times twice during gym time and once in my casa but that's the extent of my feet issues.

The food is pretty decent. I will say I have been craving some Cafe Rio and Taco bell. For lunch today I had Chicken in molé sauce and they serve hot corn tortillas with almost every meal so I have perfected the art of making lots of little street tacos. Andrew would probably love it. Before I came on my mission, I hated corn tortillas, now though I eat them every day. I will say that they're not very good at removing fat from meat and that is something that you would hate. I think the food at the Provo MTC might be better but I can't really complain. I have probably gained weight here but not very much. I eat a salad with almost every meal and I drink a lot of water. When I say a lot of water it means I try to drink at least 3 or 4 of my insulated water bottles a day. I had one day when I'm pretty sure I drank 8 or 9.

My Spanish is coming along pretty well. I still can't communicate everything that I want to but I know that that will come with time.

My daily self assessment is ok. I don't do it every day and I don't write in my journal every day because we don't get back to our apartment until 9:40 or 45 every night and then we sit and talk about how we can improve and how the day has gone and funny things that have happened and then we read for 20 minutes in Spanish as a companionship and then we get ready for bed and say companionship prayer and then maybe sneak in 5 minutes for journal writing. Nights are pretty crazy for us.

I'm trying to email you the some of my journal pages.