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We love you all so much!
Mom and Dad
Dear Family!
This week, I've
started what I like to call "Operation: Get Muscles And Be
Impressive". I've noticed that my weight loss has been slowing down little
by little and now it shows no signs of progression, so Elder Haymond and I have
started to do some Hardcore Exercising! We get up earlier every morning and do
some memorized P90X workouts. My body screams like a banshee, but Elder Haymond
keeps rallying me on with this supportive cry: "Mind over Body!"
I actually thought
about that phrase for a while. It made me think that we could use that phrase
in more than just exercise. I was able to use it in a Word of Wisdom lesson and
applied it into how we could fight addictions (the dad of the family we taught
had an addiction to coffee). I encouraged him to write it down and put it
somewhere he'd see it every day, and challenged him to stop coffee completely
for a week. If he did it, I'd buy the family a bit of chocolate. Afterwards,
two weeks. Again, the chocolate. Afterwards, three weeks. And so on until he no
longer was addicted.
The addiction fighting
is going way better and easier than I had thought. Guess it worked!
The same family, The
Aguilars, have also committed to baptism! W00T! This'll be my first complete
family to baptize! They're super nice and awesome! We're baptizing Larry and
his soon-to-be wife, Leysi, their two children, Renzo and Jonathan, and their
nephew, Christian. All of them work in making snacks to sell to people who are
stuck in traffic, and sometimes they give us peanuts or popcorn when we happen
to be stuck in traffic too. They're so cool! Heavenly Father has truly blessed
us!
We're currently
working on getting Larry and Leysi married so they can get baptized, and
they're pretty hyped for it!
Anyways, back to the
exercise. I'm going to start a habit of doing these workouts, so when I get
bikes (hope it's soon), I'm going to become a muscely monster with two
different workouts everyday!
As you can tell, this
week's been pretty good. I'm pretty anxious to see what this new week has in
store for us! Bring it on, week! I'm ready for ya!
How is everyone there?
I'll bet Lilli's having tons of fun being the Baroness! I remember her singing
all the songs of that part! How's Katie doing? Is that new herbal tea working
for her? How did the chess game go? Who won?
I love you all! You
are always in my prayers and in my heart! Thank you for all you have done for
me.
Love,
Elder Dixon
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