Templo!

Buenas Dias!!!!!

Sorry I didnt write yesterday, today we went to the temple!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So today is our Pday.

Well this week sure was full of adventures!!!

The Elders came and gave Enrique a blessing! The next couple days he was so better and didnt smoke or drink anything! He looked so great I couldnt believe it!!!! Our stake had this big Self Sufficiency activity and he went and loved it and joined a group of some sort haha but he was pretty excited. He also came to church on Sunday!

This week we took Wendy to the temple! We had a lesson with her in the waiting room about the Atonement and the spirit was so strong. She is so awesome. The only thing she needs to do to get baptized is marry Edgar! They will get married this week and baptized in a couple weeks!! Hooray! She lives really close to us so we go to her house everynight and it is awesome.

This is a shout out for mom!

She has only been asking me for about a year about the day of a missionary so here goes.

6:15 the alarm goes off and we pray

6:30 exercise! Sometimes we go run in the park, do yoga, other stuff in the house.

7:00 shower and make and eat breakfast

8:00 personal study (scriptures, Preach my gospel, etc. )
9:00 companionship study , share what we studied and plan our lessons.

10:00 language study, normally just out of the grammar book they gave us or read the church magazines in Spanish and look up the words I dont know.

11:00 LA CHAMBA. going to visit members, less active members, recent converts, investigators, and teaching them the gospel! (based on Preach My Gospel) contacting referrals people have given us, talking to people in the street, sometimes Family nights with the members.

2:00 pm, go to a members house for lunch. They pass around a calendar in relief society and the hermanas sign up to give us food!

3:00 LA CHAMBA 

until

9:00 return home!

Then we plan for the next day, wrtie down which lessons we taught, eat a little bit. Get ready for bed.

10:30 to the hammock!

And that is it!

It changes a little bit with different meetings or activities that we have, but really every day is a surprise! Every day there are ups and downs, rarely does a day go as planned haha. It is a good work. This week I hit my 13 month mark. So fast it has gone by! 

Well I love you all and I know the temple is where we need to be, it really is our goal, and I know as a family we can make it there very soon :)

You are in my hearts and in my prayers. I am lucky to have such a wonderful family. If I was born 10 times, I would choose our family every single time.

Have a great week!

Hermana Fleischer

Pokey Tree

Semana 2

Hello family!

Another week of ups and downs in the mission field.

The downs.. Rosy had a lot of problems with her husband and went to live far away! But we talked to her on the phone and sent the missionaries over there to go visit her. 

Enrique had the worst week ever with the word of wisdom. His mom went on a trip to Mexico City and basically he is just home alone almost all day drinking and drugging. The few times we went to go visit him his eyes were bloodshot and he kept saying strange things. Oh no. He didn't come to church either so we are going to pray a lot for him and see if we can literally save his life.

The ups.. Wendy is progressing super well! She loves church and just loves it all and has such a desire to learn. This week we are going to go to the temple and have a little lesson in the waiting room. 

The church made another awesome holiday video "Gracias a que El vive" (Because He lives). But its not public until 28 of march. So its a secret still. But we saw at our zone conference and it is way awesome.

We also found a bunch of new investigators this week! We just are going to pray lots that they can progress.

We were teaching a lady in the park and all the sudden a member comes up and it turns out that it was her best friend! Hooray! Instant support system. 

We went to go help this less active member clean her house but when we got there she just started talking to us and talked and talked for about 2 hours, but then she told us how much it meant to her that we were there to listen to her and to get all of it off her chest felt so much better. Sometimes the best thing we can do is listen. Not just with our ears but with our hearts. 

We taught one of our neighbors this week and he is this really cool hipster kid, and had a lot of questions about why we are here on earth and about who Jesus Christ really was. So it was cool to testify about what we know is true.

I know that Jesus Christ is our Savior! It isn't something we need to understand perfectly but it is something we can feel! I felt so much strength from Him being far away from home and giving me the strength to fulfill this mission day after day. I felt forgiveness and also peace from regrets. I feel hope for the future and assurance that our family can be eternal.

I love you all so much!

How is the book of mormon challenge coming along?

Hermana Fleischer

No pics this week but I promise some next week. 

Hola Familia!

Hermanas Fleischer and Lee

Hola familia!

Well this week had its ups and downs like usual. Enrique came to church, hooray! But he has lots of problems with the word of wisdom. Just about all of it. Sometimes we go to teach him and he is so out of it and it just no use. It makes us really sad to watch him waste his life away with drugs and alcohol. But he has desires to change and has faith.

Wendy is buenisima. We taught her and Edgar (her boyfriend who was baptized last year) about eternal families and the law of chastity. And she said maybe she didnt agree with the commandment or didnt understand why, but she wanted to follow it because she has felt that this is the true pathway and she will do what she needs to do. Wow. Mucha fe.

Pues, we have a less active member in our ward who is really progressing! His name is Heyder, he is a return missionary of about 15 years and there were some problems with his family and he hasnt gone for a few years. But the Spirit is really touching his heart. He saw the movie Meet the Mormons this week and after he saw it he just cant stop smiling and it really motivated him. He has come to church for 2 weeks straight and he really wants to come back. Hooray!

We also had another less active family came to church who brought their WHOLE family! haha all of the children their children and boyfriends. It was great. And very suprising. And wonderful.

Fluffy dogs on the roof

Hermana Petersen is from Cottonwood heights and she got here just one cambio after me. She has also been in Caucel and Sascalum and we have had 2 of the same companions. That is kind of rare but it is fun that we have a lot in common. We get along super well and we are super happy!

Rule for life. We must laugh everyday! Men are that they might have joy!!!! (2 nephi 2:25) We must do something to lift someone else everyday. We must thank our Heavenly Father for our blessings and remember His son Jesus Christ in some way everyday. He loves us, and the love we have for Him can grow each day, if we help it grow like a little seed. Why must we do it? To have the blessings of the Atonement in our life, to be worthy of His presence, and achieve an eternal family.

Love you all!!!!!!!!!! Les amo con todo mis corazon.

Como les va en su lectura del libro de mormon???

Hermana Stacie Fleischer

Cambios!!!

Buenas tardes mi familia bonita!!

Well first things first, los cambios....

I am staying in this ward! 

Hermana Lee left :( I love her so much! I am so glad we were together for a few months. She is really awesome.

My new companion is Hermana Petersen! She is always from Utah! haha. She is really nice. I dont know her very well but I have seen her a bunch throughout the mission. 

This week was really special! 

I just will share 2 experiences that happened yesterday.

Enrique.. we have an investigator who lives a couple houses down from us. He is interested but at first wasnt very sure because he told us it seemed really difficult to keep all the commandments and that he didnt really want to try. He didnt really think it was important to be close to God, but he came to church the last couple weeks and he came to a baptism in the stake center on saturday and he liked it a lot! He came to the stake center on sunday with us to do family history and then we taught him a little lesson about the plan of salvation and he understood a lot and told us that now he sees that being close to God isnt too hard, and he wants to change and when he goes to church he feels really good. Hooray!

We crossed path with him just a couple hours ago in the street and he told us that he was going to the movies to see the movie Meet the Mormons today! haha I know that the gospel can really help him.

The other really special experience yesterday is that we went to go visit an investigator named Wendy. She has gone to church 4 times and she liked it but wasnt all sure. We had talked a little bit about family history and when we saw her in the night time, she told us that earlier that day she visited her some family. Her brother passed away a little while ago, and his wife told Wendy that she had a dream about him, that he was in all white, in a place with white furniture and everyone was dressed in white, and that he was in a lower level. She told us that when she heard this, she thought about the plan of salvation that we had taught her and the temple work and she felt that all of it was true. She told us she had received the answer she was asking for and now she is really excited to enter the temple and be baptized and everything was just so perfect that happened. 

In that moment I felt the spirit so strong and I just could feel that this whole plan that God has for us is all true and we have a special purpose here and an important work to do here as well.

Well I am so happy to be here and I hope you are all well. I love and pray for you.

SORRY! I forgot my camera cord. Somehow it didnt make it into my bag but next week pictures for sure!

Love ya!

Hermana Stacie Fleischer

Happy Birthday Mission!

Buenas Tardes!

This week was so great and so happy.

Hmn Price

To start off the week we had a conference with a few zones and the mission president in our stake center. We talked a lot about the temple, eternal families, and self-sufficiency ( is that how you say it in english?). Then at the end of the meeting we watched the movie Conozca a los Mormones!!!!! (Meet the mormons) It was so good! I laughed and cried. It is going to start playing in the movie theaters here this weekend. 

Mission President and wife

We found some great people to teach this week and on Sunday we had 4 investigators come to church!!!!!! Hooray! It was so great because in this ward we weren't having too much success but this Sunday was great!!!! One of these people was Rosy, a cute little mom we are teaching who is so ready and so awesome but had some challenges getting to church the last few weeks but finally made it!!!! Her husband is a member but inactive and doesn't really want to come back but he is warming up to us and the last time we visited Rosy she told us that he decided that they need to pray every morning and night and they have been doing it! Hooray! 

Today is our Pday because we went to the temple today!!!! I was able to find some people in the family tree that weren't baptized so today I did the baptisms for them in the temple! It was so wonderful and the temple is so beautiful. Everything about the temple is so beautiful and perfect. I know that families can be together forever! I love family history work. In Doctrine and Convenios 128:18 it says that we need our ancestors and they need us! It is true and it is such a great work and we are really focusing on it with all the members and the people who are not members as well!

No furniture yet, so we ate on the floor

On Sunday I met the family of Oscar! A friend from Provo. It was a fun coincidence. I have actually known them for like a month but I didn't know it was his family until just a couple days ago!

Cool Roundabout

Well this week I completed ONE YEAR of being a missionary. Happy birthday to missionary me! Merida feels like home to me. I am so glad I decided to be a full time missionary. Heavenly Father works in wonderful ways. I didn't really understand what a mission really entailed or how it would be or what I would do, but I had always felt a desire to come because I could feel that it was a good thing to do. Now that I am here, I know that these things are true and that we have a Savior Jesus Christ! I would love to stay here 2 more years but it doesn't work that way. 

Our new house

I love you all and I pray for you. I promise that when you trust God enough to follow what he counsels us to do, He will take really good care of us, and let us feel happiness, but a true happiness that can only come from Him, and not any other source in the world.

At the Temple

Have a great week!

Hermana Fleischer

Drug Addicts and Birthday Parties

Hello famiroo!!!!

This week definitely wasn't our best. We had a hard time finding investigators, and the few people that promised us they would come to church called us at the last minute to tell us that they couldn't make it :(

We met a few people with a lot of problems with drugs and it is sad to see how they have become a slave to them, but the best part about the gospel is that the Atonement is infinite! Which means that there is no problem or injustice that the love and sacrifice of our Savior cant heal. 

Some keys for missionary work and conversion and well just about everything in life is patience. If we hold out to the very end, without giving up, we WILL be blessed and find the solution. I think that Heavenly Father tests our willingness to follow Him, even if it is hard, even if we feel like we don't have much success, but that shouldn't change our love for Him. Because even when we make mistakes over and over again or have difficulty following His counsel, that doesn't change His love for us. 

The other one is prayer. If we sincerely pray, with all of our heart, everyday, we will have not just a testimony, but a CONVERSION. We can be just a cucumber forever, and once a while get wet. Or we can immerse ourselves and stay close to our Heavenly Father and He will convert us into a pickle! Once we are a pickle, well we have changed! We cant go back, and that is what our Father would like of us. We were made to be great!! We are His children, which means each and everyone of us has a little part of Him in us.

We have a neighbor, named Maria, who isnt interested in our message but likes us to come visit her, so sometimes we go over and say hi. We passed by and saw her outside and sat down to talk to her and she invited us over for that weekend to eat tamales because she was going to make some for her granddaughters birthday. We returned that Friday and when we got there it was a huge birthday party with a huge family and there was music and they were breaking a piñata and they saw us and said Come in! Come in! and gave us lots of food and cake haha, but we left really quick because it was right about 9:00.

Today our zone played volleyball after district meeting. It was pretty fun and Hermana Lee is an all-star.

I love you all! Have a wonderful week!

Don't forget to do family history this week!

Hermana Fleischer

Abriendo area.. otra vez

Hello fam bam!

This week has been a bit slow, but better than the last week. They divided our area and put 2 more elders in our ward. They are really nice and awesome! One is from provo and one is from Puebla and fresh from the mtc! IT is fun and our ward is going to progress a lot faster with double force!

The area we are in right now is a part that we hadn't really worked in before so we are basically opening a new area, and normally the previous missionaries hadn't worked here much, but there is lots of work to do and lots of people to hear the gospel!

The area is a bit different, some fancier houses and more main roads with little businesses. We still walk everywhere, and once in a while take a bus, but normally just walk. 

the day Edgar received the priesthood

Some good news of the week is the Edgar keeps progressing! I forgot to mention last week that he received the priesthood and yesterday he blessed the sacrament! He was really nervous but he did great. We went to the family historycenter with him (in the stake center) and put some things in family search for his family and we were able to find some info about his grandparents by searching some old handwritten records that are on that site. It was way cool.

On Saturday he went to the temple and did the baptism for his dad!!!!! He loved the temple so much and he keeps progressing. He loves the church and loves gospel and has a strong testimony.

I also had a painful experience on wednesday. We were eating lunch with a family and I went to scratch my eye and all of the sudden it started to burn!! But like really bad. I was like, what in the world got in there? 

The member saw me rubbing my eye and was like oh no! Did you touch the chile and then touch your eye?

Sure enough.

I totally forgot that I had grabbed a little bit of chile habanero to put in my soup and then about 20 minutes later used the same finger to rub my eye and it hurt so bad!!!! I went to the kitchen tried to wash it out with water with little success and then the member gave me some milk to put in my eye. That calmed it down a bit and then she told hermana lee to brush her hair over my eye hahaha we were super confused but then it stopped hurting. You can bet we were laughing about it all day.

We found some really great investigators this week. One of them, Rosi, accepted a baptismal date and she said that right before we came to her house, she had been praying that God would help her know that He exists, and then we came and shared our message about Jesus Christ and the Atonement! It was super powerful and really strengthened my faith in that moment that Heavenly Father listens to His children and puts us where we need to be if we are willing to listen to Him as well.

I know that this gospel is true, and I love sharing it with others! There is nothing better than going to a complete strangers home, and testify of Christ and His gospel and feel so much love for them and help them feel the love that God has for them. 

I love ya tons!

 Have a great week! Dont forget to pray, read the scriptures (even if you can only squeeze in one verse every day), go to the temple, give references to the missionaries, and SMILE :)

Hermana Stacie Fleischer