Milagros en Viernes

 singing in the park with some members!

Feliz Navidad!!!!!!!

Well it was a good one. I loved seeing everyone's face.

This week started out slow but on Friday we had a super awesome day!!!!!!

We went to go contact a referral that we had received named Kelvin. When we got to his house he was painting the walls outside and we talked to him for a bit and then showed him the Christmas video (He is the gift) and talked a little bit about the atonement and baptism and just after 5 minutes or so he accepted to be baptized!

Poderoso (powerful).

Then we went to go look for a less active and we couldn't find them at all but we asked a guy if he knew them and then we sang a hymn and said a prayer with him and invited him to church and he said he wanted to come! Hooray! (he didn't end up coming because he slept in and we have 8:00 church, but we will get him next week :)

Then we went to go contact another referall named Edgar who had gone to another ward a couple times in another ward but lives in our area, and he is super ready to be baptized and way pumped for it! 

Que potente!

And we also contacted some people in the street that were way ready for our message and way excited about it! We made appointments to go visit them again.

Hna Lee before her fight with the cactus growing over our wall

Hna Lee and I were way pumped and we are really starting to see some progress in our area!

This week we had an investigator at church!!!! Edgar!!! We were hoping some more would come, but we were super happy that he made it. 

Next week our church changes to 11:30 am! We are hoping that will help us get people to church because it is not so early haha. People don't like to take their kids places early in the morning because it is a little cooler and they get sick easily. 

Hna Lee and I bought a volleyball and sometimes we pepper in the mornings for exercise in the park in front of our house. haha it is fun. 

Even though it is still pretty warm, the water gets cold so we boil a pot of water for the shower and then scoop it out of a bucket with a plastic container. Hooray for warm showers! 

Our cute tree!!!!!!!!!!!! 

This sunday Hna Lee and I gave talks in Sacrament meeting! HOoray! I secretly love giving talks! I spoke about a testimony of Joseph Smith and Hna Lee spoke about the Book of Mormon.

I know that the Book of Mormon is TRUE! and that the gospel has been restored! I know that we truly to have the map of the pathway that will lead us back to our Heavenly Father! We dont need faith in Joseph Smith, we need faith in Jesus Christ and His Atonement, but when we have a testimony of a living prophet, we can know that Heavenly Father is still guiding us and that if we follow His prophets we will truly be happy and have peace! We may have to make sacrifices, and put forth a grand effort. Living the gospel and obtaining a testimony is not easy. But it is happiness. and IT IS WORTH IT :)

Thanks for being a wonderful family! I love each one of you and I pray for each one of you :)

Have a wonderful week! Dont forget to pray, read the scriptures, and serve others :)

Hermana Stacie Fleischer

Navidad en Instustrial!

Singing christmas cheer for all the ward to hear

Well lots has happened this week but I don't have very much time! Good thing we will see each
other soon! Hooray!

Hermana Lee and me on Monday night...

We are getting to know our area more and sharing the Christmas magic with everyone.

an activity that we had in a little pueblo called Tixcokob. We wrapped a bunch of Books of Mormon and gave them away and made a little choir and contacted a bunch of people to help out the missionaries and this little branch.

Something special we did this Sunday is that in the afternoon a bunch of youth and young adults came with us to sing Christmas hymns to our investigators and some less actives in the ward. It was so great and the spirit was really strong! I love our new ward, even though it is small, it is really united and the members are really excited to be a part of the missionary work.

Love you and see you in T minus 2 days!

Every member a missionary!

I love you all and hope you have a very FELIZ NAVIDAD!!!!!

Hermana Stacie Fleischer

Barrio Industrial

Hello fam bam! 

This week was a week of adventures. We are getting to know our new area and it is a lot of work! Since we are both new to the area, we didnt know anyone or anything haha. But the members are really awesome and helping us out. Our ward mission leader called us the first night and helped us about and the next day one of the ward missionaries came with us and introduced us to some members. This week we have been visiting a lot of members to get to know them so that we can get to know our area and work with them as well! It is a smaller ward, pero es muy poderoso!

We walked a ton this week, trying to find people and getting lost a lot. The streets are strange and make no sense. It is a cute little area and there are lot of people willing to listen. The work we need to do is open our mouths and invite the spirit as much as we can so that people will feel the love of our Heavenly Father and desire to learn more and make changes in their lives to follow Him!

My new companion Hna Lee is from St. George!!! She is so sweet and we get along really well. She doesnt know a lot of Spanish but she is really patient and I know that she will learn fast! We walked a ton this week and I wore her out for sure but she never complained and is always happy. 

I am really happy to be where we are and what we are doing and the people we are with! We are pumped to work really hard and to contact lots of people in the streets. We really want to get some investigators to church this week. Church was really great on Sunday! We actually got there late because we got lost on the way haha. But we were on time for the sacrament. There were about 50 or 60 people who came. 

It is still pretty warm here, I still wear short sleeves, but I need a sweater at night. 

I love being a missionary and I am so happy! I love you all and I am excited to talk to you next week! I will email on Tuesday because we have a christmas activity all day next monday with all the missionaries of the whole mission.

Con mucho amor,

Hermana Stacie Fleischer

A donde me mande ire!

Well! This has been quite the week! Being down here brings lots of surprises, lots of awkward moments, lots of spiritual moments, and lots of happiness :)

First things first, CAMBIOS!!!! (transfers)

I left Caucel! Which I was kind of sad, but also really ready to leave. Right now I am in my new area named Industial. My new companion is Hermana Lee and she is fresh from the MTC! Yep, I am training again!!!!! Neither of us know this new area so it will be an adventure. 

On Tuesday I went to the TEMPLE!!!!!!!!! It was the best ever! President Garcia gave us a challenge to memorize the scripture masteries for the book of mormon, and if we memorized them all in a few weeks, we could go to the temple! I did it! We dont really have lots of extra time to memorize things, but walking in the streets is a good time to memorize scriptures. It was so beautiful and I understood everything. I felt so much at peace and so close to my Heavenly Father. It was amazing. I invite everyone to go to the temple ASAP! It will do wonders.

Well the church has a program that is HUGE! And we truly are inviting the whole world to come unto Christ. I dont know if you have seen this video...

christmas.navidad.org

But I invite you all to watch it and put it on facebook and broadcast it to the whole world and to invite neighbors and family to feel the TRUE spirit of Christmas.

Love you tons!

OUt of time but more next week!

Hermana Fleischer

December 1, 2014

Hello fam! 

Well this week passed by super fast, and I feel like I have nothing new to say... haha but this week was a good one.

On Tuesday we had a training with a few zones to review some fundamentals and to do a lot of practices. We were at the stake center all day! But it was super good and pumped me up. Plus I saw hermana Price! Hooray! I will attach a pic!

We found some new less active members in our area. There are tons of less active members that we keep discovering. Most of them are really sweet and give us lots of food to eat, we just need to get them to church. 

We also had some fun contacting some references this week! Something I have learned is to be persistent! haha I am not too pushy but when I know that this message can bless their lives on earth and for eternity well I am going to try to give it to them. I have learned that we have no reason to be afraid of anybody, they are our brothers and sisters! And once you start singing a hymn in their doorway, the spirit will always touch their hearts. 

This Sunday was the primary program and I played the piano for them! Our ward has tons of kids. Probably 60 or 70. They were all so cute and all the little boys had yellow bow ties and all the girls had yellow bows in their hair. The spirit was so strong with all their voices. 

Well we are going to work hard this week! A lot of our progressing investigators didnt come to church this week :( but we had some other people come to church for the first time and we really have a lot of work to do! I love being a missionary! It really is the best thing ever!

Thank you for all the emails and the love and support! I love you all tons!

Hermana Fleischer

Pic with some sisters and the stake center and then me and a cat we found outside someones house.

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 :)