Milagros en Viernes

 singing in the park with some members!

Feliz Navidad!!!!!!!

Well it was a good one. I loved seeing everyone's face.

This week started out slow but on Friday we had a super awesome day!!!!!!

We went to go contact a referral that we had received named Kelvin. When we got to his house he was painting the walls outside and we talked to him for a bit and then showed him the Christmas video (He is the gift) and talked a little bit about the atonement and baptism and just after 5 minutes or so he accepted to be baptized!

Poderoso (powerful).

Then we went to go look for a less active and we couldn't find them at all but we asked a guy if he knew them and then we sang a hymn and said a prayer with him and invited him to church and he said he wanted to come! Hooray! (he didn't end up coming because he slept in and we have 8:00 church, but we will get him next week :)

Then we went to go contact another referall named Edgar who had gone to another ward a couple times in another ward but lives in our area, and he is super ready to be baptized and way pumped for it! 

Que potente!

And we also contacted some people in the street that were way ready for our message and way excited about it! We made appointments to go visit them again.

Hna Lee before her fight with the cactus growing over our wall

Hna Lee and I were way pumped and we are really starting to see some progress in our area!

This week we had an investigator at church!!!! Edgar!!! We were hoping some more would come, but we were super happy that he made it. 

Next week our church changes to 11:30 am! We are hoping that will help us get people to church because it is not so early haha. People don't like to take their kids places early in the morning because it is a little cooler and they get sick easily. 

Hna Lee and I bought a volleyball and sometimes we pepper in the mornings for exercise in the park in front of our house. haha it is fun. 

Even though it is still pretty warm, the water gets cold so we boil a pot of water for the shower and then scoop it out of a bucket with a plastic container. Hooray for warm showers! 

Our cute tree!!!!!!!!!!!! 

This sunday Hna Lee and I gave talks in Sacrament meeting! HOoray! I secretly love giving talks! I spoke about a testimony of Joseph Smith and Hna Lee spoke about the Book of Mormon.

I know that the Book of Mormon is TRUE! and that the gospel has been restored! I know that we truly to have the map of the pathway that will lead us back to our Heavenly Father! We dont need faith in Joseph Smith, we need faith in Jesus Christ and His Atonement, but when we have a testimony of a living prophet, we can know that Heavenly Father is still guiding us and that if we follow His prophets we will truly be happy and have peace! We may have to make sacrifices, and put forth a grand effort. Living the gospel and obtaining a testimony is not easy. But it is happiness. and IT IS WORTH IT :)

Thanks for being a wonderful family! I love each one of you and I pray for each one of you :)

Have a wonderful week! Dont forget to pray, read the scriptures, and serve others :)

Hermana Stacie Fleischer

Navidad en Instustrial!

Singing christmas cheer for all the ward to hear

Well lots has happened this week but I don't have very much time! Good thing we will see each
other soon! Hooray!

Hermana Lee and me on Monday night...

We are getting to know our area more and sharing the Christmas magic with everyone.

an activity that we had in a little pueblo called Tixcokob. We wrapped a bunch of Books of Mormon and gave them away and made a little choir and contacted a bunch of people to help out the missionaries and this little branch.

Something special we did this Sunday is that in the afternoon a bunch of youth and young adults came with us to sing Christmas hymns to our investigators and some less actives in the ward. It was so great and the spirit was really strong! I love our new ward, even though it is small, it is really united and the members are really excited to be a part of the missionary work.

Love you and see you in T minus 2 days!

Every member a missionary!

I love you all and hope you have a very FELIZ NAVIDAD!!!!!

Hermana Stacie Fleischer

Barrio Industrial

Hello fam bam! 

This week was a week of adventures. We are getting to know our new area and it is a lot of work! Since we are both new to the area, we didnt know anyone or anything haha. But the members are really awesome and helping us out. Our ward mission leader called us the first night and helped us about and the next day one of the ward missionaries came with us and introduced us to some members. This week we have been visiting a lot of members to get to know them so that we can get to know our area and work with them as well! It is a smaller ward, pero es muy poderoso!

We walked a ton this week, trying to find people and getting lost a lot. The streets are strange and make no sense. It is a cute little area and there are lot of people willing to listen. The work we need to do is open our mouths and invite the spirit as much as we can so that people will feel the love of our Heavenly Father and desire to learn more and make changes in their lives to follow Him!

My new companion Hna Lee is from St. George!!! She is so sweet and we get along really well. She doesnt know a lot of Spanish but she is really patient and I know that she will learn fast! We walked a ton this week and I wore her out for sure but she never complained and is always happy. 

I am really happy to be where we are and what we are doing and the people we are with! We are pumped to work really hard and to contact lots of people in the streets. We really want to get some investigators to church this week. Church was really great on Sunday! We actually got there late because we got lost on the way haha. But we were on time for the sacrament. There were about 50 or 60 people who came. 

It is still pretty warm here, I still wear short sleeves, but I need a sweater at night. 

I love being a missionary and I am so happy! I love you all and I am excited to talk to you next week! I will email on Tuesday because we have a christmas activity all day next monday with all the missionaries of the whole mission.

Con mucho amor,

Hermana Stacie Fleischer

A donde me mande ire!

Well! This has been quite the week! Being down here brings lots of surprises, lots of awkward moments, lots of spiritual moments, and lots of happiness :)

First things first, CAMBIOS!!!! (transfers)

I left Caucel! Which I was kind of sad, but also really ready to leave. Right now I am in my new area named Industial. My new companion is Hermana Lee and she is fresh from the MTC! Yep, I am training again!!!!! Neither of us know this new area so it will be an adventure. 

On Tuesday I went to the TEMPLE!!!!!!!!! It was the best ever! President Garcia gave us a challenge to memorize the scripture masteries for the book of mormon, and if we memorized them all in a few weeks, we could go to the temple! I did it! We dont really have lots of extra time to memorize things, but walking in the streets is a good time to memorize scriptures. It was so beautiful and I understood everything. I felt so much at peace and so close to my Heavenly Father. It was amazing. I invite everyone to go to the temple ASAP! It will do wonders.

Well the church has a program that is HUGE! And we truly are inviting the whole world to come unto Christ. I dont know if you have seen this video...

christmas.navidad.org

But I invite you all to watch it and put it on facebook and broadcast it to the whole world and to invite neighbors and family to feel the TRUE spirit of Christmas.

Love you tons!

OUt of time but more next week!

Hermana Fleischer

December 1, 2014

Hello fam! 

Well this week passed by super fast, and I feel like I have nothing new to say... haha but this week was a good one.

On Tuesday we had a training with a few zones to review some fundamentals and to do a lot of practices. We were at the stake center all day! But it was super good and pumped me up. Plus I saw hermana Price! Hooray! I will attach a pic!

We found some new less active members in our area. There are tons of less active members that we keep discovering. Most of them are really sweet and give us lots of food to eat, we just need to get them to church. 

We also had some fun contacting some references this week! Something I have learned is to be persistent! haha I am not too pushy but when I know that this message can bless their lives on earth and for eternity well I am going to try to give it to them. I have learned that we have no reason to be afraid of anybody, they are our brothers and sisters! And once you start singing a hymn in their doorway, the spirit will always touch their hearts. 

This Sunday was the primary program and I played the piano for them! Our ward has tons of kids. Probably 60 or 70. They were all so cute and all the little boys had yellow bow ties and all the girls had yellow bows in their hair. The spirit was so strong with all their voices. 

Well we are going to work hard this week! A lot of our progressing investigators didnt come to church this week :( but we had some other people come to church for the first time and we really have a lot of work to do! I love being a missionary! It really is the best thing ever!

Thank you for all the emails and the love and support! I love you all tons!

Hermana Fleischer

Pic with some sisters and the stake center and then me and a cat we found outside someones house.

Perseverancia!

Hola familia!!!!

Well this week was my HALFWAY MARK! Too crazy. I cant believe how much I have learned and grown and all the people I have grown to love as well.

I have been in this area. Caucel, for 6 months now!! I'm thinking they are going to kick me out in a couple weeks haha. But I love it lots. The members are really great and they are willing to help us as well. 

Our recent converts, the familia hernandez come with us sometimes to visit people. Gilberto came with us this week and shared such a sincere testimony that brought the spirit so much, how can I not know that all of this is true?? When we live the gospel and share it with others, we can develop stronger faith in our Savior and feel His love and Atonement more in our lives. 

Birthday party

There are lots and lots of inactives and less actives in our area but we are reactivating some and they are coming to church and participating in the work! Hooray! Some people just need a little bit of love, someone to care about them, and to feel the spirit again. When I first got to Caucel I met a less active named Frida, who has a tough family situation and has faced a lot of problems in their life but she has changed SO MUCH! Inside and out. She finally has a smile on her face, and she entered the temple again for the first time in over ten years. 

I love her tons and I see a bright future for her. 

At the Zoo

I love the scripture in Doctrine and Covenants 122:7.

I would invite you all to read it. I know that life will be full of challenges, disappointments, weaknesses, mistakes. But I also know that we are here for a beautiful reason and we have a loving Heavenly Father and Savior to lift us through everything and turn every stumbling block into a stepping stone.

I love you all! Have a wonderful week!

Hermana Fleischer

More pics from my birthday and we went to the zoo last monday! :)

veinte años

Hello fam bam!!!!

Well this week had its up and downs like always, but the most important thing is that we press forward, humble ourselves and always pray to our loving Heavenly Father, and learn from every day! :)

Well I am 20 years old! hooray! It was a pretty good day I will say. Hna Garcia (mission presidents wife) called me in the morning and sang happy birthday. Then we went to church. Hooray! I love church. And I hope I go my whole life long. Then we went to go eat lunch and the members we ate lunch with bought some cake for me, hooray!!!

After lunch we had to go to the stake center for a training, but we didn't really have to go visit someone for a lesson or else we would be late, so for the 20 or so minutes that we had we contacted a bunch of people in the street and talked a little bit about the restoration and invited them to come to church. Chispas!!! Fue bien dificil. We learned why lots of missionaries don't knock on doors anymore, its really not that effective. Its SO important to work with the members to find people or else they just see 2 foreignerers that are interrupting their cochinita.

After our stake meeting we went to visit some members, Familia Caballero, who invited us over and when we got there they started singing and then they we ate panuchos and they gave me cake and smashed my face in it hahaha which is what every one does for bdays.

Today we were grocery shopping, because on mondays are p days and we buy our food for the week, a couple men came up to us and asked us if we were missionaries, and then asked us where they could buy Rosarios (those catholic necklaces) because their uncle died. We explained that we were missionaries for the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and we taught a little bit about the plan of Salvation right there in the vegetable section and then we made an appointment to visit them again. 

I know the Lord puts people in our paths for a reason!

I love being a missionary, it really is the best thing ever. I know the church is true and it gives us so much hope and light when it seems like there are only dark clouds.

Thank you for the birthday package and notes! I love you all and I cant wait to see your beautiful faces in just a month in a computer screen. haha.

Have a wonderful day and week!

Con mucho amor y besos y abrazos,

Hermana Stacie Fleischer

Ps, pictures are loading insanely slow so I will send a bunch next week :)

Nohoch Semana

us and Samuel, who just got baptized. He is already set on going on a mission and came with us to visit some people!

 Hello my dearest family!!!!

Well, this week was a great one!

Last week I got my hair cut... about 4 months ago my companion cut it, and it turned out, well, horrible. And so we went to a salon that a member has and she cut it so it looked nice and normal!!! Hooray!

On Tuesday we had to go the immigration offices in Merida for my companion (all the foreign missionaries go to get their visas worked out at the beginning of their mission) and we kind of got lost on the bus routes but we made it safely and on time! We talk buses pretty often and for some reason I love taking the bus. When we left the immigration office I had to use the bathroom and the only one near was in some random Christian church so I snuck in their and used it and hoped nobody saw me haha.

Although I miss the mountains, the skies in Merida have my heart

The members in our ward our so wonderful!!!!! They always give us lots offood or fruit or random things and I just love them tons and also want you to know that I am being taken care of very well down here :) They are very loving and there are a lot of families in Barrio Caucel that I love tons! I will be sad to leave them. 

On Friday we had a talent night that we had organized for our ward! Actually a ton of people came! Members and non members. We sang Be Still my Soul in English (it actually doesn't exist in the Spanish Hymn Book) and other people danced and did skits and it was pretty fun.

Since Thanksgiving doesn't exist in Mexico, a lot of people already have their Christmas decorations up. Hooray!

Today we got together with Hna Martinez (mi mama!!!!) and her compie

We found 2 families this week that are super awesome and they came to church! Hooray! We had lots of people that came to church this week and a lot of less actives too. A lot of people just need a little bit of love in their life to change! We have an investigator names Dieter! He is a young man that is way awesome and he told us an experience where he was going to read the chapter we left him and he didn't understand it at all. SO then he said a prayer and afterwards he understood everything he read and applied it to himself! I know that the spirit will guide us always always! Heavenly Father wants to guide us to the truth, and sometimes he just requires a little bit of faith from us.

I know the gospel is true!!!! And it is not weight, but wings! Being a missionary is the best thing to do and the best place to be with the best people in the world!!!!

Love you tons and hope you are doing well!

Hermana Fleischer

November, 30, 2014

Hello fam bam! 

Well this week nothing too exciting happened, but we are doing great in Caucel! There are a lot of people here that live really difficult situations, but I have faith that the gospel can help each one of them! 

The weather is finally cooling down which is great! I actually wore a scarf one day.

We went to go visit a muchacha we are teaching and we asked her about how her family is doing and she was a little sad and said that her mom had a lot of health problems and that basically any day she could have a heart attack or a stroke, so we sang Families Can be Together Forever and she started crying and I felt the spirit really strong in the moment testify to us that it was true! We have the hope of an eternal life with our families and our Heavenly Father! When we pass through difficult things in this short earth life, we need to always remember our Heavenly Father and Savior Jesus Christ who can lift us through all of these worries and burdens. They may not take them away, but they will make us stronger. And when we endure it well, we will rest in eternal peace :)

Today we ate frijol con puerco, yum! Tradition for the Yucatecos to eat it one Monday. 

I love you tons! Have a wonderful week! I will send pictures next week. 

Come what may and love it :)

Hermana Fleischer

PS: my birthday is soon, letters are more than welcome!

Bautismo!

Rainy days in Caucel, the streets fill up

Buenas tardes mi familia!

This week was cambios!!!! But I am still in Caucel with Hermana Cockerham so nothing changed. I have been here for almost 6 months! 

Samuel, Gilberto, and Ismael were baptized!!!!!

Here is what happened this week.

On tuesday it was raining all day long!!! We got so wet but it was ok. We walked around a lot because the people we were going to visit werent home but we did find some people to visit. One of the families we are teaching has a dad who is inactive and his wife and 2 daughters that arent members. Well turns out he lived in Salt Lake for a super long time so thats kind of fun. Everytime we visit them they give us food and on tuesday we went to see them and he made us "Hotel Utah" hot dogs haha. 

The elders, and Sandra and leo who they baptized, and then the hernandez brothers and us

Another day was rainy and we went to visit a girl and her little 5 year old sister came out and saw that we were super wet and ran and got some blankets and put them around us and made sure we were all covered with blanket and gave us a hug and said "I share my things". I adore the people here.

Friday was the baptism of the Familia Hernandez!!!! HOoraay! It was really special. The elders in our ward also baptized a mom and her son that day so we had it all together. We sang "Nearer My God to Thee" with the elders and it sounded pretty good. The Young Mens president in our ward baptized the Hernandez brothers, and it was really special because he helped us out a lot by taking them to the activities and visiting them and being so welcoming to them and they were like his little sons. He has only been a member for about 6 months or so and it was the first time he had baptized someone! It was just all a good day.

Their mom, Elvia will be baptized in a couple weeks. She has so much faith and she is an awesome mom. 

On Sunday they were interviewed for the priesthood and got temple recommends! Samuel, the oldest brother, already made plans to go on a mission, and they are just such a special family! They have a lot of faith and I love them tons.

Sunday night we ate dinner with a couple that we are teaching that invited us over and we ate tons of potato salad with crackers, which is a very common thing down here.

a couple young men from our ward who are leaving on missions this week!!! Abisai, the one on the right always came with us to teach people. He was like our best friend haha.

I have way too many blessings. I LOVE being here in Merida and sharing the gospel with the people here. I have felt a lot of love from these Yucatecos and from my Heavenly Father. 

I hope you all have the most wonderful week!

Hermana Stacie Fleischer

Ocho Meses!!!

Mi familia bonita!!!! Ya cumpli ocho meses en la mision! No puedo creer que el tiempo pasa tan rapido.

Happy 8 months!

Also on Saturday was Hna Cockerhams birthday! Its kind of hard to do surprises when you are always with someone, but I made her a chocolate banana smoothie for breakfast and stuck a nice note in her scriptures while she was in the shower. And we bought bolis (delicious things like a popsicle ice cream dream). 

This week during the sacrament, I felt the spirit so strong! And it should be like that every week. I have learned how important and sacred the sacrament is and can be a very special part of our week. I will challenge you all to prepare yourself this sunday to feel the love the Savior has for each and every one of you! And read 3 nephi 20: 8 - 9. 

I also love how the spirit can direct us. Many times this has happened to me, and it happened again this week. We were just walking down the street and we didn't have an appointment but we were going to go visit someone and we passed a house on the corner and I said, lets go here! We had talked to someone we met on the street about a month or 2 ago, and I thought that they lived there. Well, when we asked if Carlos was home, we figured out it was the wrong house, but the family accepted us in their home and we talked with them and we felt the spirit so strong.

I know for our Heavenly Father there are no accidents! The spirit will come to us in the most subtle ways, and we can be the answers to other peoples prayers. 

The familia hernandez will be baptized this week!!!!! Well, the sons are, Ismael, Gilberto, and Samuel. We found out the parents are married so they will be baptized a little bit later. WE are super pumped. They are beyond ready and they make me so happy. I am so so thankful that I had the opportunity to meet them and be a small part of their lives and watch them progress.

I love you all and hope you have a wonderful week!

Familias Eternas

Hello fam bam!

This week had some good moments. 

Yesterday an area 70 came , Elder Mendoza, and talked to a lot of us about the importance of working with the members. He spoke really directly and it was good. The leaders of the church always speak very inspired and I know that they are being led by our Heavenly Father! 

My mom, and 2 daughters

At the conference I saw all of my companions I have had! haha. The first thing I saw when I walked into the Stake Center was Hermana Price waving her arms and jumping up and down saying Mi Mama!!!!!!!! And ran and gave me a hug and I was way happy to see her.

Our cute little Familia Hernandez is progressing SO well. The three teenage boys went to seminary everyday this week and they love it tons. They are so prepared and them and their mom have so much desire to follow Jesus Christ. We went to go teach them about the Sabbath Day and it was kind of a funny lesson and they had lots of questions about what type of movies they could watch and where they could go, and we laugh a lot with them and I know they want to keep the commandments and be good. At the end of the lesson they offered us a drink and I have learned to be cautious and ask what people give us, because when it looks like apple juice, a lot of the times it is tea! The bad tea. So then we ended up teaching them the word of wisdom that day as well haha.

Things are going well in Caucel and I feel the Spirit every day. I love being a missionary!

God be with you til we meet again!

Hermana Stacie Fleischer

October 6, 2014: more pics

A little girl from a family we are teaching gave me this note, it translates to:

Hermana Fleischer, I like your English classes so here is a poem for you

Your heart is sweet, your hair is a waterful, your blue eyes are like golden pearls.

October 6, 2014

What a wonderful week!!!!!

I loved General Conference!!!! We watched in English and it was so great. Passed by super fast. We watched it in our church and in between the sessions some members brought some food so we kind of chilled in the church all day. I think one of my favorites was President Uchtdorfs about revelation and prayer and also Jorge Klebingat about spiritual confidence. So great.

We are teaching the most precious family I have ever met and they will be baptized at the end of the month! La familia Hernandez. They have 3 teenage sons and they are so nice and spiritual and I just want to give all of them a hug, but I cant. 

Here in the mission, the goal is to have a baptism every week per companionship. Its a high goal but I know we can do it!!!! Sometimes being a missionary is a little overwhelming, there are a lot of goals and lots of people to visit and things to accomplish and sometimes it seems impossible, but like Nephi said, I will go and do! The Lord never gives us something we cant accomplish. NEVER! We are pumped to work hard this week.

Love you lots!

I would love to hear about your missionary experiences, and if you havent had one, I would invite you to pray for one. :)

Hermana Fleischer

September 29, 2014

Buenas Tardes mi familia maravillosa!

This week was a great week. We worked super hard and visited lots of people. We have a few great families that we are teaching that all want to get baptized.. the trick is getting them to church! That seems to be the trial. One of the families we are teaching we went to go pass by for them Sunday morning and they were all eating breakfast in their jammies and watching a movie and they said they would come to church next sunday and we were really bummed. But we went to visit them afterward and helped them realize how important going to church was and I think it helped and we will get them there this week!

This week is conference! Hooray! On Saturday we have to go to our stake center which is about a 40 minute bus ride away but on Sunday they will have it in our chapel which is only about a 20 minute bus ride away. 

Hermana Cockerham is still doing great, she is improving Spanish little by little. 

This week rained a ton! Which is nice sometimes because it cools down, but I dont sometimes we are wet all day and its not the best but its alright. The only thing is when it rains, the shower is really cold!!!!! But you get used to it really fast. Just stick one toe in at a time and its fine. 

I love being a missionary! Its the best ever. I love going to church and the little kids run up to us and give us hugs. I love teaching with the spirit and helping people feel the Atonement of Jesus Christ in their lives. Being here is one of the best, if not the best, decision I have made in my life.

Thank you for being a wonderful supportive family! I love ya tons! 

Have a wonderful day!

Hermana Stacie Fleischer

September 22, 2014

This week I received another daughter! Or, I got a new missionary as my companion. Hermana Cockerham! She is from Texas. She has a lot to learn, but she is super determined to work hard and learn which is great. She has a super good attitude and even though we faced some rejection this week, she said its the happiest she has ever been.

I do miss Hermana Price a lot, but you will all meet her one day because she is from Utah and we already planned a lot of things and vacations to do together :)

This week started out really slow because we didnt really get working until wednesday and the rest of the week we didnt really find a lot of people.. it was kind of a weird week. But we have a good week planned ahead of us with lots of appointments!

We found a cute little family on Sunday! One of the boys that sells bread on a little tricycle is our friend because we always buy bread from him and so we got his direction and went to go visit his family this week. It was pouring rain when we went over their and so they gave us some food to eat and a rain jacket to borrow because my companion didnt have one yet and we taught them a lesson and they loved it. Both the parents and their 3 sons work every single day but sunday. Hooray for the Sabbath Day! Their name is the Familia Hernandez. I hope they can progress :)

I taught Sunday school this week and played the piano in sacrament meeting! Fun fun.

It has poured tons of rain the last couple of days! Today we had to go to like 5 different computer places because none of them had internet because the power went out for a little bit.

I think I forgot to mention that a couple weeks ago the Area President of Mexico, Elder Benjamin De Hoyos, came and spoke to us! He talked a lot about working together with the members and also personal revelation. I played the piano for that meeting too and also shared a spiritual thought in Spanish! (Every meeting they have a spiritual thought in Spanish and one in English).

I love being a missionary, and there are only a few tough days amidst all the great ones!

Que tengan bonita semana!

Hermana Stacie Fleischer

September 15- Part II

 A horse, when we took this picture the guy who was selling stuff on the cart and owned the horse came up to us and said "Subete!" (Get on) and he wanted to take a picture of us haha but thought it wouldnt be a good idea in skirts

 Another one of our favorite families, La Familia Jauregui!!! The muchacho in the tie just got his mission call! He is serving in the middle of Mexico and leaves next month. They are pretty much our best friends here, I love them so much.

Hermana Price and I in our last taxi ride together this morning. We rarely take taxis because they are expensive, but it is almost impossible to take 2 huge suitcases on a bus.

September 15, 2014

Hello Fam Bam!

Our English Class sign we made 

CAMBIOS!!!! Hna Price left to another area, but not too far away, and I am staying in Caucel and I am going to TRAIN! We were a bit sad to leave eachother but I am really pumped to train again!!! I loved training Hermana Price and it really pushed myself to be my best and I found strength beyond my own (hymn #220)

Adriana, a recent convert who has a wonderful growing testimony :)

This week a lot of people accepted baptsimal dates! But only a couple investigadors came to church. But our area is growing a lot and the members are helping us out more and I have a grand vision for these next few months.

Liliana is still so happy! She came to the ward activity this week and is reading the book of mormon and just way pumped. We also gave her a challenge to give a Mormon.Org card to one of her friends and invite them to church, and the next time we saw her she told her she did it! 

My favorite part about finding and teaching people, is the lesson after their baptism, they have so much light!!!!! Its something that you can see and feel and you know that the Holy Ghost is with them and that the church is true!

We went to go visit one of our investigators this week, Malakias, and when we got there he said that he wanted to give us back the book of mormon and thanked us for our time and that he was scared to make changes in his life like give up drinking coffee and other things, we told him to keep the book of mormon and to read it and we left kind of sad. We were walking to another part and I felt so strongly that we needed to go back. So we returned and he was suprised but we asked if we could just share a special message with him and he said it was ok. 

We taught him the restoration and felt the spirit really strong and his heart opened up to us and he said he was very grateful that we came back and said we could keep coming back. Yay!

I didnt want to give up on him and Heavenly Father didnt want us to either.

Tomorrow I will meet my new companion! Hooray! Please pray for her that she will adjust well to the missionary life, that I will have patience and love, and that we can help a lot of people recieve the gospel :)

Les amo y espero que esten muy bien :)

Hermana Stacie Fleischer