July 28, 2014

recent convert Jazibe and her cousin Belen

Hola mi familia maravillosa!

This week twas a good one. We had intercambios with one of the sister training leaders (who is a missionary, but goes with all of the companionships one day to see how they are doing) and she helped us out with some things we could improve on and I loved it so much! We also had interviews with the President and he gave us some advice and I think it will really help us.

I found Hermana Harper! O-town shout out!

Our ward, Caucel, is the biggest ward in the whole mission! There are 6 missionaries in this ward. With all these members, we gotta put them to work! We made a lot of plans and coordinated with a lot of members on Sunday to come with us and to visit people and I am really pumped for this week.

The Lord is hastening His work!! In the scriptures it prophesies of this and it is says the gospel will be taken to all the world. When I read it, I know that this time is now!!!!

One thing that happened this week, on Saturday we were walking down the street when a car pulled to the side and a lady got out and said Sisters! I have a reference for you! I just visited my friend and I was hoping I would find you. She gave us the name of her friend and then gave us a ride to where we needed to go (we had to walk to the other side of our area). She was a member from another stake. On Sunday (last night), we went to go visit her friend, Jose Luis, and we found him and we had a super spiritual lesson and he accepted a baptismal date. I could feel the spirit so strong in that lesson, and I know that Heavenly Father puts people in the right place so that people who are prepared will hear the gospel! 

This week hermana Price and I went running a couple times in the Forbidden Forest by our house and we couldn't believe how sore we were the next day haha.

I love the scripture Matt 11:28-29 

Please read them. Jesus Christ will help us in everything in our life.

Have a wonderful week! I love you all and I definitely feel your prayers everyday :)

Hermana Fleischer

We wash our clothes early in the morning before our meetings with a bucket and a plunger, (definitely a different plunger than the bathroom plunger)

July 21, 2014

 Buenas tardes mi familia!

Some highlights of the week!

So in front of our house the tree branches were super low and the weeds were a little crazy so we had to crawl through the jungle to get to our door, but on Saturday the bishop and one of the boys in our ward came and cut it all back and pulled all the weeds!!! We were so happy and we felt so loved! Especially because we know the bishop is really busy and he took the time to serve us. Picture included of me infront of our house. It finally looks like a home!! Today we are going to deep clean our house because it really needs it... we wil see how that goes.

One of our investigators is really loving the book of mormon and church but we knew he smoked so we taught the word of wisdom and set goals to help him stop smoking. He has a lot of determination!! And faith. He aso drank coffee and tea but he completely stopped right away. He is a really intersting man, he is from cuba and had fought in a war in Africa in one point of his life. 

La Familia Reyes (from my ward) says hi to the Fleischer Family!

This week we had a lesson with someone and they gave us jugo de tamarindo to drink! I was really excited because I drank it all the time in Campeche but it was the first time I had it in Yucatan and it brought me back to my first area :)

We went to visit a future investigator whose house is a panaderia (bakery) and we visited them and they gave us tons of free delicious bread! We were so happy.

My 5 month mark this week and i feel good.

I love being a missionary! It is the best ever. I love it more and more everyday. I love the history back in New Testament times when Jesus was with a large group of people, teaching them. It was passover time and they were supposed to have a passover feast but there was only one lad with a few loaves of bread and a few fish. But he gave everything he had to Jesus and He miraculously broke it and fed the thousands of people. 

We may not feel adequate for what we are asked to accomplish, we may fear that we will fall short, but when we give all we have to our Heavenly Father and continue to serve Him with all of our heart, he will multiply our efforts and we will be able to bless others! 

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

Hermana Stacie Fleischer

July 14, 2014

Buenas Tardes Familia!

Hello again! I cant believe how fast time is passing, this week I will hit my 5 months mark! I am really blessed with my Spanish and I am so grateful to my Heavenly Father for helping me out tons and tons with it! 

This week was a good ol week in the mission field. We worked a lot this week and found some awesome new investigators. The Lord works in mysterious ways sometimes. Some days we go and try to find references and we cant find anyone, or our appointments fall through and we are walking around a lot with little success, but 

then people are put in our path and it is always unexpected!

This week we were walking down the street without having found anyone when a Senorita ran out of her house and said Hey! We are selling freshly made cake! Come and buy some! So we went in and starting talking to her and her family and we sang a hymn and talked a little bit about the gospel but then it was cut short because her son ran in the house and said that he had his school festival so they hurried and packed up the cake and left. But then later that week we were walking down the street and she drove by and picked us up in her car and we went to her house and had another short lesson and the next day she came to church! 

On Sunday we left a couple hours early to go pick up people to take the bus to church together and we got 4 people to come! So that was kind of fun. Our church is about 20 minute bus ride from our area.

Remember when you read the scriptures and go to church, that just listening to the words and feeling the spirit for a small moment is not enough. We must work to put the things we learn into practice in our lives! It will take humility, diligence, and patience, but it is so worth it.

It is like if we have a cake recipe, we can read the recipe over and over and over again, we can memorize it, but we are never going to have the cake unless we put it into action. Sometimes we wonder why it isn't easy, and also why missionary work isn't easy, but Elder Holland said that salvation was never easy, when Jesus Christ suffered for all of us, of course it was not easy, so we should not expect it to be easy for us.

What is important is that we are not alone! We have to spirit to guide us and sanctify us everyday! I love the gospel and I know that it has been restored in these days! I love being a missionary, I am so happy to be here.

I love and miss you all! Have the most wondrous week! :)

Hermana Stacie Fleischer

July 7, 2014

Hola Familia!

Este semana fue muy buena.

We are working hard and improving as a companionship and having lots of fun too. Some fun things that happened this week. Yesterday al of our zone went to go work in an area and we visited some less active members. We went with a couple members of that ward and they took me and Hermana Price in their red 1970s Volkswagen bug and it was too funny because it was just such an old little car and the members were so nice to us. 

 

Also this week we had a big rainstorm! Those are always kind of fun, as long as we have our plastic to keep us dry! Which we did. :)

 

We found someone playing the drums outside and I was really excited so we went up to him and I said I played drums and he invited me to play a little bit and it was too fun. We made an appointment to teach him a lesson, and he told us his name was Alex. We went back to his house the day we had scheduled the appointment for and we asked for Alex and a man named Alex came out but it was definitely not the same person and we were super confused... haha but he said it would be ok if we taught him a lesson.

 

Hermana Price and I celebrated 4th of July by buying an ice cream cone that night.

 

The people here really are so nice! Lots of people give us food, and one day a perfect stranger saw us on the sidewalk and invited us to come eat with them and gave us a papaya.

 

At the beginning of my mission, I could hardly understand Spanish and I couldnt really speak that much either. I thought to myself, why would Heavenly Father send me here, if I could teach much more effective in my own language and be able to help more people?

I also asked myself, how can I train someone who doesnt speak Spanish, when I myself am still learning Spanish and learning my area and learning how to be a good missionary.

But I have realized that I am here for a reason! And I have learned so much about patience, humility, and putting my trust in Heavenly Father to give me all the fortaleza that I need to fulfill my purpose, to speak the language, and be a good missionary!! I love Heavenly Father so much. I hope that each and everyone of you can pray to Him this week to receive the strength you need.

 

Love you tons!

Hermana Stacie Fleischer

Dragon fruit