The Eternal Summer

Hello fam!!!!

This week passed by super fast... I feel like I dont have many new things to say.

But this week was a good one! We had zone meetings every single day this week! So it kind of took up some time and didnt have as much time for the lessons. But the training was good. One of the days I gave the training for the zone about how to use the book of mormon. 

I love the book of mormon so much! Even when I didnt really understand it very well when I was younger I loved it because sometimes its not the words you need but the feeling you get from showing the faith to open the pages and look for answers. It is so awesome to give the book of mormon to people everyday and show them how it can help them and what they can learn.

My converts in this ward, Edgar, Wendy, and Enrique are all still doing super great! They have so much light and being a member of the church has blessed their lives and their families. 

We found a couple new families to teach this week, we hope they can progress! A challenge that some people have is that they work a lot! Like all day!!!!! Until the night. So it is sometimes hard to visit them and hard to teach them very often and get them to come to church. 

It is just getting hotter and hotter here. I know that I say it a lot but it is hard to ignore. Hna Petersen and I were walking down the street and we saw a perfectly good chunk of ice in the middle of the sidewalk. We thought maybe we should stick it in our water bottles because our water was really hot (and the water bottles have a filter) but then we decided not to haha. But we should have.

We also tried cooking an egg on the sidewalk today but I dont think we did it at the right time of day because it didnt work but it should.

I have learned a lot about being persisent, patient, boldness, and love in the mission. All of it is super important in missionary work. We have to be really dirent and fearless to find people and invite them to come unto Christ. There is nothing to be afraid of when I remember that I have something so special that I came to share with the people here.

Jesus Christ is our Savior. He came to this earth and lived a perfect example, and gave us a perfect gift through His perfect sacrifice. He is the difference! It cant be denied. Sometimes I see a lot of sad things here, lots of alcoholism, broken up families, poverty, but when we have the Holy Ghost and the hope that comes from our faith in Jesus Christ, it can overcome it all. The lightness will always outshine the darkness.

I love you all!

Have the most wonderful week! :)

Hermana Stacie Fleischer

bautismo de Enrique!

Hello fam bam!

Well this was a great week!

Enrique was baptized!!!!!! Hooray! And guess who baptized him.... Edgar Sosa!!! Our convert who was baptized a few months ago. It was super awesome. A lot of members came and we ate cake afterwards. Hermana Petersen and I sang come thou fount, but with a verse in Spanish (the words of Oh my Father). I have sang at all my baptisms. It makes it special. Sometimes Edgar asks us to sing the song we sang for him at his baptism because he loved it so much. 

Wendy´s husband received the priesthood and that little family is progressing so well. I love them tons!

On Friday we took Enrique to the temple to have a little lesson in the waiting room.

This week we went to go to service at a members house to help her clean her backyard. She said we could come at 6, when the sun wasn't out. We thought she meant 6 in the morning so we went over to her house and knocked on her door but she didn't answer... then we sent her a text message to say we had arrived and we were so sleepy still so we just laid down on her driveway and fell asleep for a little bit hahaha. Turns out she wanted us to come at 6 in the afternoon. Well we went the next morning and got it all done. 

Its been SUPER hot. When we come back to visit, we are going in November or December... ok people??

Thank you so much for all the prayers, I really do feel them every single day! I have so many blessings, I have great health, I am really happy! Thank you thank you thank you!

Zone Conference

Today we went to the temple! We were going to do a session, but a lot of people went and there wasn't room so we did baptisms in the temple. Hooray!

Self timer fail... :)

I am so humbled by the people here. They are so amazing and so wonderful. There are some members who are super willing to help and it really shows their conversion.

Zone Conference

This week we saw a little video about john tanner, one of the early members of the church, he was pretty rich and he gave everything to the church when he got baptized, its a really cool story. I hope you can look it up.

Well, like always, time is up!

Love you tons!

Enjoy the pictures. 

Hermana Fleischer

Bautismo!

Buenas Tardes mi familia maravillosa!

This week was cambios... but we didnt change! Hooray! Hna Petersen and I are going to be in this area again! I am super happy about that. We are working really hard, probably the hardest I have worked in my whole mission. I am super excited for all the things coming ahead.

On Saturday morning Wendy got baptized!!!! Hooray! We went early to get it all ready and fill up the font. We also bought muffins and juice for afterwards. It was about 100 degrees that morning! haha. It was a super great baptism!!!!! Elder Rodriguez, a missionary in our ward baptized her. When she came out of the font she was smiling so big! She was so happy and she is just super excited about it and about the church and everything. 

Enrique is progressing a lot! He should get baptized this week. He had a beard and longish hair, but one day we went to his house and he had cut is hair and shaved and was wearing a nice shirt and looked good as new! haha it really surprised us when he walked out. He also has a lot of light in his face and his prayers are really sincere. 

We contacted this guy who happened to be from Germany! We talked to him in English and in Spanish and in the little german that I know haha. It was kind of an interesting guy, we will see if we can get him to church. He accepted baptism, but I dont think he really understands it yet. But the good thing is that we are here to help him know it and feel it!

Also this weekend we had a devotional called Gracias a Que El Vive. (Because He Lives). Inspired by the new video and Easter! It started out as an idea Hna Petersen and I had for our ward and it grew and it turned out really well!!!!! We made a choir with some members of the ward, and all the missionaries in our zone (about 15 hermanas and elders or so). I played the piano, and a member played the violin and another played the oboe. We sang 5 songs and there were 5 short talks about the life of Jesus Christ and ended with The Resurrection. It was cool because the whole program told a story, starting with His birth, and ending with the resurrection and new beginnings! 

We did an arrangement of I Know That My Redeemer Lives, and it was super powerful and the spirit was so strong in that moment.

The church was full of people that came and it was just a super great way to end the week.

These days are the really hot ones. Really really sweaty. When I come home you people wont even recognize me! My hair is turning blonde from all the sunshine!!!!

Please dont hate me... I left my camera cord in the house! :( And I dont think there is enough time to run back and get it. But I have lots of good pictures and I promise that next week will be lots :) :)

I love you all and I know that we will be an eternal family if we all do our best. Our weaknesses will make us stronger, and maybe Heavenly Father wont change all of our weaknesses, but He will change us through our weaknesses. We can always come back to Him if we have made a wrong choice. He is calling our name and He LIVES :)

Les amo con todo mi corazon.

Un gran abrazo y beso de Merida,

Hermana Stacie Fleischer

La Conferencia!

Buenas Tardes mi querida familia.

Well. This weekend was so beautiful! Probably, the best conference ever. I planned to share some of my favorite things with you BUT there were too many. I think I especially loved Elder Holland! and Elder Uchtdorf. I love how both of them talk. Elder Holland really direct and powerful, his testimony just bursting at the seams! And then Elder Uchtdorf, with a lot of love. You can just feel the message and know that we have a wonderful Savior who loves us, who is there to rescue us from the fears or falls that we may have.

I also laughed a lot when Pres. Uchtdorf started speaking in German hahaha.

I hope you can all remember the spirit you felt during conference and make goals to grow closer to Christ durante the next 6 months.

Enrique came to all 5 sessions of conference!!!! Woo hoo! He has made lots of changes in his life, it is a miracle. If all goes well he will be baptized this week.

Wendy is also going to be baptized this week.

We also found some more investigators that are really awesome! But didnt come to conference :( That is one of the hardest parts, getting people to attend church. Pero ay vamos.

Conference is kind of fun because a lot of members go to the stake center, and then bring a bunch of food to eat in between sessions, so all the classrooms are filled with a bunch of people eating and so we ate with some members in our ward.

The members really love us here and I feel really blessed to be in such a wonderful part of the world!

Well sorry it was a short one, but time runs out quick.

Love you all.

Hermana Fleischer

Dont worry, I will give an epic mission recap when I get home and tell lots of cool stories when I have time. If you do a mission right, there is just not verymuch time for anything haha.

Here are some pics.

Tying the Knot

Hola familia!!!!!

Well just a few hours ago Wendy and Edgar got married!!!! Hooray! Our zone leaders let us leave our district meeting a little early to go to their wedding. Then we all went to this nice restaurant to eat breakfast. Wendy is really excited to be baptized! She would be getting baptized this weekend, but it is general conference, so we are going to wait until next weekend. Hooray!

Enrique is doing really well! This week he hasnt drank alcohol or done any drugs. He still smokes a little bit but yesterday he told us that he was going to stop smoking all at once. He is pretty excited to get baptized too. I think the years and years of drugs have affected his mind a little bit and sometimes he forgets things, but he is really sincere and wants to do good.

every good day starts with a cactus leaf

Well I sure hope you all have seen this video :

http://www.mormon.org/easter?cid=HP_FR_3-27-2015_dMIS_fMRMN_xLIDyL1-A_

We downloaded it onto a USB and we carry around our little dvd player and show all the members, investigators, people in the street. It is pretty fun and really powerful. 

I know that it is true! It is something tangible, that we can feel, He is here. He really does love us and has the beautiful plan for us. We can lean on Him for everything and we will feel true happiness.

Well this was a pretty good week. We found some new investigators and others are progressing. A few came to church and we are hoping that a lot of them come to the general conference!

Hooray!

I hope you all have a wonderful week and take advantage of this wonderful weekend! On saturday we will be watching it at the same time! Hooray! But sunday we have daylight savings .. mexican equivalent.

Love you con todo mi corazon y queda poco tiempo hasta que nos veamos de nuevo :)

Hermana Fleischer