Provecho

Hola familia!!!

The weeks pass by fast! I have been here for 2 weeks already. I am kind of getting familiar with our area but its a little confusing and apparently the streets have names but most of the time they aren't written anywhere. 

I see the weirdest things everyday. I saw a huge lizard in the street and we were teaching someone and they had a ginormous turkey just walking around their yard haha. Our neighbors pet monkey got out of its cage and was swinging around on the powerlines outside and we tried to lure it back in with a banana haha.

As far as food, its not really that foreign. We had a Noche de Hogar (family home evening) with some less actives and an investigator and we had ham and cheese sandwiches haha. Every day but P day we eat lunch at a members house. Basically everything I've had is pretty delicious. They love this drink that is tamarind juice. I still don}t know what a tamarind is but everyone loves it. At first I didn't but I think its growing on me. 

Last week there was one day where it was SUPER windy and then for 3 days it was kind of cool and windy. It was the best. I didn't even sweat that much and I actually wore a long sleeve shirt on Thursday. What?? I didn't think that would ever happen. And I had to sleep with a blanket because it was cold.

Usually I am always sweaty and it is a blessing to have a hammock because air flows through and you can rock yourself back and forth and that helps cool down haha. Plus we have a fan in our casa.

We teach lessons basically all day after studying!! Or at least we try to. There is this one neighborhood that is particularly difficult to find people in their home, but we have lots of back up plans or we just teach people we find. We do not knock on doors, but if people are outside then sometimes we talk with them. 

We teach a lot of less actives too. In Mexico people have to attend church 5 weeks to be baptized. So we have to be very patient because we have some people that are really close to being baptized but miss church. :(

I sure am glad I went hiking all winter long because our area has lots of hills but its no big deal.

I love all the people we teach! It is great to share the gospel! But it is also hard when people are not ready to accept it for some reason or another. 

I hope you all have a wonderful week!!!

Heavenly Father is always listening to our prayers and is always waiting for us to come unto Him! It is so worth it to make the effort to study the scriptures and pray sincerely every single day. 

I love and miss you but I am loving it here and I love being a missionary! 

Hermana Stacie Fleischer (people have a hard time saying Fleischer)