On the road again!

Hello fam! 

I will see you soon and I will tell you of all the adventures, miracles, craziness of the past week, but just to let you know that I am well, and full of mixed emotions! But beyond excited to see you all! I will see you wednesday night :) :) :) :) :)

I love you!!!!!!!!! 

Signing out for the last time,

Hermana Stacie Fleischer

A vencer!

doing service

Hello fam!!!

This is probably the second to last email you will get from me while I am a missionary. 

President and Hermana Garcia!!!

This week was full of meetings and doing a bunch of random things. We had a meeting with our mission president with all the zone leaders and sister training leaders! It was super awesome! The spirit is always so strong and President Garcia is really awesome. They always have the missionaries going home in the transfer bear their testimonies and this time it was my turn!!! It is a super weird feeling to be on the last stretch but the most strongest feeling I have is gratitude! I am so thankful I came here, for everything I have learned, for all the people I have met, and the experiences I have had, for a WONDERFUL family, and the gospel in my life :) We are truly, truly blessed.

our district

We also had a zone meeting and I talked about good attitude and faith. 2 key ingredients in missionary work, and really in everything we do. One of my favorite things that I have heard in the mission is when the seventy Elder Valenzuela came to our mission and his wife gave a little message as well, she said "Tire el desanimo en la basura, no sirve para nada" or "Throw discouragement in the garbage, it doesnt work at all."  It makes more sense to me in Spanish, but if we have negative thoughts or bad feelings, the best we can do is just throw them away, and look towards the light, which is our loving Heavenly Father who will never leave us.

John 14:18 {I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you}

I have felt this promise time and time again in the mission and this is what gives me hope and faith for an unknown future.

my last zone meeting! it is fun because I have a couple old companions in the zone :)

This week we found a couple less-active families who are super awesome and ready to come back! One of them came to church and he was really happy.

Our little family Ximena and Idar are doing really well. But conversion is never without opposition. We have a lot of faith and if everything goes well they will be baptized this weekend :)

This is my last week!!!!!!!!!!! It will be a good one.  I sure will miss this little patch of the world. Today we are going to eat lunch with a family in my old area! Familia Aguilar! I love them tons. I hope there is room in the house because I invite everyone to come visit me in Utah haha.

Have the most wonderful week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

Love you all and see you soon.

our pet moth

a truck full of minions at the gas station ??

hermana bailey and I!

waiting for the rain to pass

Pictures

Hna. Alma, the relief society president. She is so short haha. And really great.

 Pics from my area:

My companion.

This week!

Intercambios with Hna. Diaz, from Zacatecas!

Hello family!!!!!!

This was a pretty good week. We have been talking to a bunch of people, in the streets, in the buses, meeting a lot of less-active members and its been a lot of fun. Even though not all of them accept the gospel in this moment, we are planting lots of seeds!

Intercambios with Hna. Lopez, from Veracruz! She is probably the sweetest missionary I have ever met.

It was kind of a crazy week because we did 2 intercambios! When we do intercambios either Hna. Bailey or I goes to another area to work with an Hermana for a day, and her companion comes to our area and works with the one that stayed behind. This week we did intercambios with the missionaries in Industrial! The last ward I was in!! I went there to work with Hna. Lopez and it was super strange walking the same streets I walked for 6 months. We saw a couple of my converts that are still going strong and that was really fun. I really miss that area and that ward, but I know that I am where I am supposed to be right now! We will always need change, we cant have things be the same always, or wish that things were how they used to be. We will always need opposition, because it will help us learn and improve. 

Intercambios with Hna. Diaz, from Zacatecas!

Ximena and Idar, our adorable family that we are teaching are doing so well! This week we had an awesome lesson about the plan of salvation. We talked about the temple and they were like, wait, we can get married there? and they were so excited about eternal families, and they asked us if they could get baptized, we said yes of course!!!!!!! They have come to church 2 weeks now and they are really happy. I feel so much love for them, and I am so grateful Heavenly Father allows us to meet people like them and share the gospel with them. God really has a plan for each and every one of us, and He has a time. For this family, this is the exact moment they are prepared for the gospel, its possible that a few years ago they wouldn't have accepted it or maybe a few years in the future would have been too late, but it is the moment and I know that sometimes we don't understand everything, but if we are obedient, we WILL feel His love and know that His arms are ALWAYS open, waiting for us to come to Him.

Familia Tec Poot!

Ximena and Idar!

I love you all and I love our Savior, because of Him, we can be together forever.

Thanks for being the best family ever. Time is ticking and pretty soon I will see you guys. We can actually talk and hear each other instead of waiting for an email every week haha. 

Mucho amor,

Hermana Stacie Fleischer

Moroni 8:3

{I am mindful of you always in my prayers, continually praying unto God the Father in the name of his Holy Child, Jesus, that he, through his infinite goodness and grace, will keep you through the endurance of faith on his name to the end.}

familias eternas!

Buenas Tardes Mi Familia!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well this week was a pretty good week in the mission!

In front of the "haunted house", in Vicente Solis, Hna Montoyas area where we worked on friday.

We are teaching a family, Ximena and Idar, and they have 2 little kids. They are super awesome! We found them coming out of their house one day and we asked them for a direction that we were looking for and a couple weeks later we went back to visit them. They came to church with us this week and they totally loved it! It was super funny because when we got there, Idar sees the bishop and gives him a big hug, turns out they were good friends when they were little kids. 

They are just the sweetest couple and they are really interested in the gospel! 

little house that we ate in, the older houses in the city are made from mostly rocks, not blocks

just a little pedazo of our area

 Well the time is ticking and we are working hard! A giant problem down here : lots of recent converts that fall away shortly after their baptism. It is super sad. But in this ward we are working a lot with the converts and they are progressing so well!!!! Almost all of them come to church and are participating and everything.

intercambios with Hermana Montoya from Honduras! She is a convert of a couple years and she is an amazing missionary!!!

Another side note.. it is SO hard for the people to find a job here that doesn't require them to work on Sundays, so that can sometimes hurt the progress of a lot of members. But it is a test of FAITH and all things are possible with faith in God :)

So our area is pretty can be pretty bustling sometimes. We were walking down one of the main streets one day and we see a tourist bus at the stop light and some white people waving frantically and we were confused and then realized that they were waving at us so we waved back and I am pretty sure they were members of the church haha.

streets of merida

Well that's about it for this week. I love you all so much. This life is amazing. I know that we are here on the earth for a grand purpose, and all of the trials shape us to reach our potential as children of God! The Atonement is real! We can feel it in our lives when we pray with all our heart, keep the commandments, and make covenants. Miracles happen, and Jesus Christ lives.

Thank you for being the best family ever!!!!!

Hermana Stacie Fleischer

P.S. We had a WELL of a time. (see pics below)