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 :)