June 19 & 20

Hey everyone-
     Got the first two pieces of mail today, thanks Natalie B. and Dad. If you guys can do me a favor and date your letters that would be nice.
     To answer your questions, Chow is great! It's 3 times a day. Breakfast chow is around 0600. We get up at 0500 everyday.  Lunch is around 1100 and dinner is around 1800. On average, I get a salad, jello, and like 4 packets (1 in. by 4 in.) of peanut butter. Then there are 3 main choices you can pick from and 3 veggies to choose from. Then you can have a little dessert (most of the time it's 2 small cookies). We hit the racks around 2100.
     I've been sick for about 4 days now with a bad cold. You just have to battle through it. Training is getting harder but I'm still enjoying it as much as I can. Today (120620) was the bayonet training and pugil sticks. Pugil sticks is where you have padded poles and you fight each other. I lost, but all well. I'm also a prayer leader for the Church in my platoon. That means during our 5 min. devotional every night. I read it for the guys that are LDS in our platoon. I also get to go to church every Tuesday night for training. It's great.
     I've made two really good friends in my platoon, Chhuth, my rack mate and Barrus who is LDS as well. We talk and tell each other what we are going to do right after we graduate. :)
     Well I got to go. Letter are appreciated as well as prayers.
                              Miss you all,
                                    Bryson