Today was sweet though, I´ve been trying to get my comp to go hike with me on mondays and today we finally did. Thank goodness. We started at 7 and it was a pretty short hike an hour and a half up, and proly alittle over 3 miles, 2000 ft. elevation. So it wasnt to bad, but it was beutiful, Elder Morales was way shocked, Everything is green, and there is no trash, it smells like flowers and is beyond beutiful... haha, it was sweet. We got up there, and sat for a good half hour, I also got the chance to pray at the top... The two places in my life that I feel God is always there is the top of the mountains and the Temple. Remember before Moses had a Temple he climbed to the top of the mountain and talked to god face to face. Well I had an experience like that today, it was way spiritual, that is one of the reasons I love the mountians. We jogged off, well I jogged off the mountian, waiting for my companion alot because we cant really split up but it was way fun, the trail wasnt bad. We also found a cave, that a huge barn owl flew out when we got in it.
As I was ontop of the mountain I began to jog, just an easy pace nothing to hard. Feeling free and like I owned the world. The mountain platued and so as I jogged the reletively flat, burnt ground. Picking my trail out I let my mind relax and my body go free. Only thinking of the next place to place my foot inbetween the rock scattered ground, or what bush I was groing to jump over, What trick I wanted to do, Or which way would be the most fun, I was free, and loving it. What was that, a jack rabbit...does it have horns? Where is it going? man its fast..... I think I´m faster... I think I can beat it.... Well hey I´ll try to beat it there is no harm in that. As into my mind entered a different objective my body sprang forth like a hound out of the gates, My mind was alert, and just like the dog runs down the rabbit I was to do the same... (Really the only difference is I wasnt spitting all over the place) As I pushed forward and with all my strenght began to run, I new I could catch this rabbit, as it ran under in through bushes I jumped over and around them, sometimes hurtiling two or three at a time. My mind was set upon the goal and my body ached to achieve it, My adrenaline pumped and I was in .... THE ZONE.... in front of me was a batch of bushes, but they were all small. As I jumped up and over, hurtling them as if I was running a 10.0 in the 100 meter, I came down and with a shot of pain through my foot, My mind was again reawakened, it stung and felt as if fire was burning the outer half of my foot, As I picked it up and thought to my self what was that, I saw as I began to slow the cactus that was once loggeged in my foot fly up through the air.
So yeah, I put a cactus in my foot, It hurt pretty bad. But wasnt really much. I only had to pull out a couple of spines :) Last cool thing before I leave you all for another week wondering what wonderful things are happening here. Is in our hike we came to a point that we could see into the US whats up. Wait.... the phone who texted us? boom AT&T saying the we were now using international... or towers from the US... Then as we peaked out.... Yep we crossed the border :) The border for tecate was on the other side of us. I have returned....
