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!