hey hey!
i'm doing so great. i mean lets be honest. the mission is rough. but i love it and it's all worth it! but i'm doing so good you have no idea! i've been writing in my journal, doing p90x, eating healthy, and we've been finding tons of people to teach!!
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| I love this photo! Me & my buddy fighting evil! |
so it sounds like you all still haven't had a ton of time to just relax yet! still trying to recover from everything? haha stay strong family! you are babysitting Cloe, remind me who that is. sounds super familiar...
wow they are on a cruise to jamaica. so cool. and ya'll are going to go on a cruise too?? i didn't know that. i thought you gave it up to them. so tell me about ya'lls!!! are amber and jeremy going on that one too? speaking of trips... when i get home i really want to save up some money and go to Colombia with gramps. ya'll in?? also i wanted to ask ya'll, want to go to utah for the april conference next year? i want to try to go. there is an AWESOME family in my ward that is going to go. i told them i want to try and meet up with them and it would be a sweet opportunity to see some of my friends from the mission who are in utah (there's a TON of them hahaha).
mom this might be the favorite part of my email... haha so my companion and i HAVE been doing p90x and it feels good. i feel like it's been pretty effective, i just still need to work on getting rid of my love handles and i little of my stomach... :) but i'm only on week 2 so it'll come. anyways i would appreciate if you could send those dvds sometime. ALSO, you will be happy to hear that i've been eating much better. my companion and i make salads, SALADS!!! with grilled chicken, spinach, tomatoes, cucumber, carrots, and apple. super yummy. i also like to eat cottage cheese with fruit now. can you believe the change in me?? and i've been doing so much better at writing in my journal. i'm not going to lie, there are some spaces in the mission where i haven't written for months... but i've broken the habit and doing well with that. we'll have to print out these emails to fill the time i didn't write.
well as cool as that is, it gets better. my companion and i have really tried to keep positive attitudes, be obedient, and be diligent! i mean i always tried to do those things, but now it's a much more focused thing. i'm actively trying to make better changes. it's been cool so far! i feel good about the work, and we have been having a lot to do. the past few days we've found new people to teach like EVERYDAY! and guess what? we've found 2 families!! this is a cool story... so we were on exchanges and i had an Elder Harris here in the area with me. he's a great missionary and i enjoyed our day to work together. well, we were tracting a street and not having any luck. the exchange was almost over and we hadn't found anyone to teach yet. so i stopped in the street, pulled out my map, and told him, "elder harris, we need to find someone to teach! where do you think we should go?". he looked at my map and pointed out a street that i hadn't reallly worked on before. that area has less hispanic people in it, but we went anyways. the 10 minute bike ride over there i was praying the whole way. i was asking Heavenly Father to bless us and lead us to someone ready to listen. well we got there and began to knock. a few houses down, we got let in! it was an english guy though (and we hand over english investigators), but i figured, maybe this is who we were meant to find together. well he was an old man and began talking to us. he actually didn't let us teach him and was closed to our message.... haha but that's not the good part, 2 houses later, we got let in! we got to teach Ana and her daughter the restoration and the spirit was so strong. Ana seemed to really enjoy what we were teaching her. oh man i know that the Lord led us to them. she recently went through some bad family issues and what we provided her seemed to comfort her needs. she's been working a whole lot, but we'll hopefully get to teach them this week. i'll keep you posted :)
it seems like all the people we have been finding have been straight miracles from the Lord. it's been so awesome.
well i love you all. thanks for your love and prayers. i miss you all tons!!!
elder derek munoz
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