Joshua home doing great

Joshua JFlo Is the second of four boys in our family. He has a dog named Tausha. He played sports since he was three non-stop his favorite being lacrosse He was selected for the high school All Star team for lacrosse.  He worked at UPS until he left to serve a full time mission in Honduras San Pedro Sula mission. He left on October 12th 2011 for the Provo MTC and then arrived in Honduras on December 12 2011 He return home on  September 19th 2013.  He is home working for Lexington Law and going to school he had an incredible time on his mission and love the people.
I'm switching this blog to Zach attack ZFlo our third son to maybe hope three times a charm keeping the blig up to date.

Josh time

Hey so sorry i havent wriiten yet but this is what happened haha....




This morning i got on to do my e mail and i wanted to try this new thing that makes it so i can have more time haha and well you get on and read your e mails and then get off so your time stops and then you get on the study journal thing on the lds website and you write your e mail. When you finish you just copy and paste it. Well i finished and it turns out that this week they fixed that problem. So i cant bring it over here. Haha i guess this is what i get for trying to get around the rules when i didnt even need to. Haha i just wanted to try it. But anyways it was kind of a big e mail so i dont want to rewrite it all so mom this is what you need to do. Get on lds.org then go to tools (at the top) and there is a link for a study journal or study note book or something. Click on it and sign in as me.  So yeah do that and it should come up right when you log on. If you have trouble then let me know and maybe ill have to write a letter sometime this week but i dont have much time so that would be hard.
But the good thing is I got to weigh my bags before getting on here. Right now one is 35 and the other is about 25 lbs. That is without everything im using now. Im guessing i will have around 5 or 10 lbs to spare so ill try to think of stuff i need this week but like i said in my letter (study notebook) i think i have everything i need except that jacket.

Well love you all! Sorry about the letter. Im sure you wont have trouble getting it but yeah. ttyl!

1st Thanksgiving without Josh

Nov 24 & 25
Today is Thanksgiving and I am so Thankful for many many things. One being my son Joshua and the service he is doing. You make us very proud Joshua.

This is part of my Letter to Josh on Thanksgiving and Blk Friday weekend.

Really missed you at Thanksgiving today Joshua. Just not the same without the Munch. I'm really curious how your day was and what you ate and did etc...I am sure MTC food is nothing like Grandma's or Matt's Mashed Potato's my rolls, Rod's turkey & ham and etc... I thought about you often.. My first Thanksgiving without you kind of weird to think about it that way. But we know you are where you should be.

 Today we went to Grandmas then went to Gateway to see Tower Heist. The movie was ok... Are family went and Stacy and Kevin to the Movie. Stacy kids went with big Josh while we went to movie. Josh & Stacy have separated. Sad but I guess I hate that kind of change. Hard for me. I think of the blessing they received. But I hope the best for them & there family. I guess if they are all happy that is what matters!

I am preparing for the Santa Run Sat. Morn (a 5k that Tim's is doing and I have to wear Santa suits) Yes I have a Santa suit for it. Kind of crazy. (added photos after) I had a good time but never went through check in went back out to run in with my friends. Kind of silly of me I didn't even think about my time.

Then we are also doing the Christmas craft show in Spanish Fork (Spanish Fork is past Provo). So it will be a busy busy weekend for me. We also have TJ's homcoming on Sunday.

Blk Friday is right now... its late. Scott went to walmart with Jessica and I was going to go but haven't left yet.. (BIG blk Friday) I wanted to write you. I was thinking about last year when we all went to Walmart and to the mall and you got your shoes. So I'm sitting here writing you instead of shopping.  Id rather be right here tonight not to into shopping. One of my shopping partner is not here.

Loved the disk of pictures and the video kind of funny. I will send disk back.

By the way Matt & Candy brought Grandma a picture of the Temple and told her they are preparing to go through the Temple. Your Grandma can not stop talking about it they made her pretty happy. Thought that was neat.

Well Josh believe it or not I made it through my first Thanksgiving without you and I survived.

Love you and I am very proud of you Mom 

(I added photos after to go with page)

Josh more MTC

Nov 18 2011 from Joshua
hola! mom... to make a new line you push shift and enter
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see!! (Joshua loves to tease his MOM. I was on a computer and couldnt figure it out Thanks Joshua!)

First off Mom my xbox account  go to 7 11 and buy a 3 month. Brandon can help you with this just give him the money. pleasse do it this week. So did you find the hair stuff? its crazy how many bald 19 yr olds there and and its starting to terrify me! haha....on your list idea... dont worry about that I dont think I need anything yet except I'd like that jacket at some point that I wanted before I left. very thin but waterproof... My main concern right now is how I will do with the weight of my bags in 3 WEEKS! Its almost here haha basically 2 1/2 sundays... but yeah the suitcases I have are big so with stuff in it im going to be pushing it.
Dad, mom said they picked you on the unemployment thing? is everything ok now? On that subject I try not to worry about it. It sounds like everything is ok so thats good. Thanks for telling me though, its good to here things are looking up.

Mom youre about to be proud but I filled up a card on the camera. I may send you it and just have you take everything off and you could put them all on fb. I do kind of want a way to look back but I dunno. and e mailing them all to me is a good idea but I wont ever have time to look at them so it kinda just takes up space. Oh well we will just figure something out
So mom I didnt quite understand the sears thing... I know you got an interview but you said you were headed to sears. does that mean you are working there? You got the job? I know its hard for you but you will have fun. I have a lot of people i know working there so it should be fun. Good luck though.
(Joshua to answer your question, I was just going shopping at sears for Grandma. But I have talked to Carrie about working there we will see. Have not decided how it will work out with my issues.)

Oh and carmel apple jam sounds good haha ive never heard of that before. I wish I could have been there to try it with Austin. Wish I could take it with me but I cant take it to Honduras. Like I said I'm already going to have trouble with the weight of my bags. . . in 3 weeks! feels good to say that haha

So hows my phone? Mom dont stress over it. Most of my contacts are on the sim card. All I really care about is the numbers. I had some good pics and video but dont worry about it. its not worth t mobile charging us more..... Oh and so the stereo??? you dont know what happened? haha please take care of that. Please put it away somewhere. I only had about 5 things of all I own that I wanted left alone... Dont take that as thats what Ive been thinking about though! Im actually doing very well with the language. I found that the "gift of tongues" only works when you put your effort into studying haha who would have thought? Especially the computer programm the churhc made called TALL. I used to get bored and it didnt help me at all. Now that I actually take notes on it when it explains stuff and I right down a lot. Nearly 2 pages for each lesson in my notebook and I'm really improving. However I know when I get to honduras I'll have to cry myself to sleep for the first bit because nobody understands me! just kidding

(This was junk food sent to the Elders in his room. Glad to see he is eating well)

Dad I would love more jerky. the first bag was a gift dirctly from dios (god)... but dont stress over it haha

Good job Zach and Austin on your grades! Keep it up! Also thats way cool to hear you guys didnt get in trouble. Austin im glad you listened and left home and I hope you realize that wasnt just a thought you had. That was a prompting and im glad you listened

So I talk to Matt about every day. He told me about the robe he got because of that letter haha they sent him on that should have been for a 5 year girl. It barely covers "him" haha but he likes it. Mom dont worry I dont need a robe. wanna know why? Because I have the proud ownership of the Zone Leader robe. Haha I dont really use it much. and yes Mom I'm using really good hygiene skills. I probably spelled that wrong. My english is failing haha.
Mom your Tuesday letter I got wednesday. Your wed. I got Thursday. I dont mind it but I think you mentioned that in the letters

About talking to Tj... I like the mtc but I'm dying to be in the field. Im scared becase until about 12 weeks out I wont be able to speak much. the food is ok but I didnt have a "solid" bathroom visit until my 3rd week haha. Now everything is good though except now I'm gaining weight. I lost a bunch at first which was cool but not anymore haha

Dad mom said you did Grandmas lawn. I hope you enjoyed that. The fall was always my favorite to be over there. Its cold enoguh for a jacket and its always quiet. So im jealous
Mom it sounds like you love zumba and it loves you haha but thats really cool and I think its great you have your sister and them coming also!
Tausha sounds like she is still a little psycho but yeah I miss her. Dont worry I'm not having any troubles haha.

Well my last note I made is about being more active. Please go to the Temple as much as you can! Not just Mom. Scott, Dad. Zach and Austin you too. I wish I would have went more. Every week its feels like going to the temple is something I need. Almost feels like I didnt sleep and when I go on fridays its like I just slept if that makes sense
Well I had a couple other e mails today so I'm actually12 minutes over my time limit haha so sorry again Mom
Im also getting a haircut today so please pray for me! Not only for a good haircut but im told there is a... um... a wonderful daughter of our heavenly father... yeah and id like to have her cut my hair haha... becuase she is good with hair of course and nothing else! lol

Well love you all! ttyl! Elder Floisand

Tausha and the bird

Nov 18 2011

Joshua

Well How are you today? Thought I would get a jump start on sending this so it is there when you get to email. Im pretty happy to hear from you today. First the attached pictures are of tausha and a bird. The bird seriously would not even fly away when tausha would try to run after it. it would almost touch Tausha then jump out of the way. BUt not like all the other birds it would like almost land on tausha.. It was the funniest thing. It finally made Tausha try to ignor it. SHe had a hard time with that one. But that bird wanted to get to her and tease her and it did. LOL

Her and the Bird go at it all teh time.. I think maybe they are friends under that mean old bark haa haa

Nov 11 2011

Hey Everybody!... Well ill start off with telling you the big news... two words... "Zone Leader" haha. Yeah they called me and my comp on sunday morning. We had a new district on wednesday so we had to talk to them a lot the last 2 days. Its a lot nicer being the one that knows everything, they really look up to us.  ok now ill start... Sorry mom i didnt get a pic with Zach or not even Joel. They both left on monday. Me Zach and Matt were supposed to take pictures at the temple but we ended up being there at different times.... Speaking of sunday, yeah it was fast sunday. I was pretty hungry all day but no headaches Dad so that was good. The dinner was awful though, so luckily I had your care package haha.Anyways it was fast and testimony meeting and first off they called us to the stand because in the meeting and thats were we sit in sacrament meeting. Then I gave my testimony. My first time in sacrament and it was completely in spanish. I was supprised how well it went. Im to the point were testimonies and prayers I can basicallly say whatever I want in spanish. Its a cool feeling when it goes that smoothly.

So ive been meaning to tell you more about my presidency. First our 2nd councelor is Brother Warren, and he was a skiier for the olympics. I guess he is a big shot there. I talk to him a lot about how the mountains are and stuff. He is one of the guys that gets invited to all the meetings with like the onwers of the canyons and stuff. Next my 1st counselor is Hermano Farnsworth. Ive been wanting to ask him if he has relation to Sherm but I doubt it. I really like him though, and I'm pretty sure he really likes me. My president is who you guys need to look for. Pres Shumway. He used to coach football at Timpview like when Scott played there in the playoffs. He now refs high school basketball so look for him at Zach and Austins games! btw congrats on you two making it. It sounds like you both had it set before try outs started.

                               
So in my notes I made a note to let you guys know that my missionary goggles are starting to take effect. Its no bueno. And grandma dont worry thats not where my focus is haha

Btw thanks for all the letters! Ill try to get you guys letters today!
For the plaque mom can you use the pic with me looking at taush? the night i left? And for the scriptures one of my favorite has always been psalms 27: 1 and 14 (lord is my light and salvation, wait on the lord) And the one i found the other day while reading is in alma 17: 11 (be patient in suffering) but i doubt either of those are on that page. But if you guys have a good one you are more then welcome to give suggestions haha

(sleepy boy this pictuer makes me smile)

Mom I decided to do Elder on my spanish scriptures. And I'm planning on still using them when I get home ha im not going to put them away ha
                              
Questions... Hows the xbox coming? IF they arent working with you all you need to do is take $20 and buy a 3 month from 7 11 and have brandon put it on my account and then it will stop... DId you find the hair stuff? im needing it haha... And dad did you check the bank?

Mom on the memory card I can send you it but you would have to get it to me quick. And I may want you to just keep the pics on there. I may want to look back while im in honduras but I dunno.

Mom thats great about how you did with Tim's and its too bad I wasnt out on the field when you passed by haha..  You may have fun at sears. I have a few friends there... And mom I love the letters haha I get one every day... But I was wrong. I dont get them on saturdays. They close too early so whatever one I get today will be the last til Monday
Well i guess thats all. Im about out of time here so if i dont reply again then sorry. I should have the letters mailed off today though. hasta lluego!

con amor,

Elder floisand

I added some of the pictures Joshua has sent to us in one of his written letters. Great to see him smiling.

Here are a few more..