We officially started our training today, and it went pretty well, all things considered. There was some running around to different offices to get registered and acquaint ourselves with the campus, followed by some initial training and splitting us up into districts of four couples each. Tomorrow is our first full day, starting with breakfast at 7am and classes from 8am until about 4:30pm, so it's going to be busy. There's a small store for missionaries here in our building, and it had a nice selection of a bunch of things: medications, stationery, clothing, snacks, laundry supplies, etc., which we took advantage of. You can even order more missionary name tags, which we did.
The problem was my foot. Dee was exhausted and went to bed relatively early last night, thinking maybe she was coming down with a cold. She slept pretty well and feels much better today, perhaps avoiding getting sick. However, I woke up around 11pm with an intermittent shooting pain just below my right ankle. I took some Alleve, which helped a little bit, but I didn't sleep much all night for obvious reasons. In the morning, I felt something like a little bone spur sticking out there below the skin, which was red and very painful to the touch. The painful "zingers" in my foot came and went all day, one or two almost every minute, which meant that I wasn't terribly focused on the classes.
This evening we went over to a local Urgent Care facility, where the doctor was a bit puzzled by my symptoms. He ultimately prescribed some steroid anti-inflammatory pills and some Norco, in case I'm still in pain during the night. Hopefully I won't be loopy tomorrow -- or at least no more so than usual <g>
While we were out for the doctor/pharmacy, we also got some dinner at a nice little Mexican place on State Street, then did some shopping at the grocery store next to the pharmacy. It was nice to walk around and get a few things we needed. You can tell you are in Utah when no one is surprised to see a missionary name tag and knows what it means. We took a Lyft back to the MTC and are now looking forward to some sleep.
Everyone has been really nice all day, and several couples checked up on me tonight to see how I was doing.