Please send ideas of healthy meals!!!

Ok well it's monday again. This weekis the start of the new transfer and Iam staying in Angers with my same companion. Last tuesday at interviews with president I got a pretty good idea that I'd be staying but found out for sure on saturday when transfer e-mails came out. So I have six weeks left here and I would bet I'm out after that. I was happy to be staying here, the ward is awesome and me and my companion have gotten along great.

Thank you very much for the package. I got it at interviews & everything in it was greatly anticipated. So not a ton happened this week that I can think of. We had our interviews with president like I said, those were good. We did some service a couple days. Friday I did some gardening and Saturday a bunch of digging and shoveling stuff. Then yesterday after church we went to a member family's house for a barbecue, which was very good, though I was scared because the first time I ate there it was kind of crazy. That made us six for six for meals with members on Sundays for that transfer, which is pretty impressive.

So as far as the assignment to send simple, healthy recipes, the emphasis is probably more on healthy than simple, though they do probably need to be relatively simple. The thing is just that I don't know where to really start or what to even buy when I shop. As of now I get whole wheat pasta for one, lettuce for salads though I don't make them too often because I don't know of any healthy dressings that I like here, I also get tuna and a couple other things but I really don't know what I'm doing. Even with the pasta, it's whole wheat which is good but I don't really know what to put on it that is healthy. I use pesto sometimes because I heard that wasn't bad, I don't know about red sauce as far as healthiness but I could probably swing making that. Basically I just have no idea what I'm doing. But ya that is an assignment, to find healthy things that would be doable.

By the way I got Kristi, Marilyn, and Stacy's e-mails, but I didn't see them till today and I believe they were sent last week. So thank you very much for those, they were much appreciated. But I better cut thisoffquick, love and miss you all.

Eating mushrooms & other "gross stuff"!/Loving Angers

I believe in a letter I got recently somebody mentioned something about me having two meals in a row with members or something and asked if we do that often. That is actually one thing that we have been doing a lot of. Last week we had 4 meals or something with members, and we have more lined up and stuff. We've been having a ton lately, mostly because working with members is about all we've been doing lately. We haven't really had other appointments for a while. But this is a really good ward and I think we can pretty much set stuff up with members as we please it seems. I don't think most places, if any other places, will be this good as far as members and what not but as for now the members are awesome. I kind of don't want to leave Angers, and am kind of maybe even a little dissappointed that I started here, just because few other places will be close to this good as far as members etc. I'm sure other places will be great but I think Angers is really kind of special. So anyways, ya as for right now meals at members' houses are very common. They weren't nearly as common last transfer but now we are just scheduling more things with members and can just about have as much set up as we want i think.

By the way you'd be proud, because of all our eating places I think I'm maybe getting to where I can eat more gross things. The other day we went to a member family's house and they made a sort of pie thing with just chicken and mushrooms, so the mushrooms weren't really get-aroundable. So I just told myself I was going to have to eat the whole thing, and I did. Maybe not a big step for most people, but I can think of no other time in my life that I have eaten actual mushrooms. I have also eaten numerous other things I would have never eaten before and I kind of hope I will just start to be more tolerant of gross stuff.

Oh another meal we had was yesterday a family from my companion's ward in Scotland was here and they took us out to a chinese place. So that wasn't going along with the gross stuff necessarilly, but that was just a little interesting and kind of cool to have people he knew come.