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)