Another week!!!

Hello family. Today I don't have a lot of time but I love you all so much! It wasn't a super eventful week so not much to report. We have a new investigator K that is SO awesome and we are so so so thrilled to be teaching her.

C also came to church last week and it was awesome, she was wearing one of the dresses so got and she loved church. So did her children so we are just super excited for her and her progress.

Today is a really stressful day but a great day. I love my companions and I love Seaside. We are serving in the best area in the world. This Church is SO true and we are so blessed to be able to have the Gospel. We are so lucky to have the joy it brings and the peace it can bring.

We have decided to plan a Luau!! We are SO excited about it. It will be the friday before conference and it will be the party of the year. The tongan branch is doing the food... so YUMMY. I love Tongan culture, I think I am going to move there after my mission. We meet loads of tongans and we serve with them and they are just great. So laid back, everything is just relaxed. Also, they really understand the principle of being brothers and sisters. They treat everyone as brothers and sisters. It is incredible. I love it so much. Last transfer Elder Pese was down here and one day in ward council everyone was complaining about finding this list of people whose records where messed up. Then Elder Pese just jumps in and says they are lost sheep and they are our brothers and sisters and it is our job as members to find them! It was so powerful and inspiring and it really set the ward on fire with missionary work.

Love you all so much

Hermana Fischetti

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FIRST OFFICIAL BAPTISM!

WAHOO!!

Pablo, our investigator, was baptized on Saturday. It was the best day of my whole life except when our family was sealed in the Temple! SERIOUSLY! A member sang I like to look for rainbows and everyone was crying. Then Pablo bore his testimony about how he wants his family to join him and everything it was SO spiritual and so great. I feel so so so blessed to get to know him.

Another miracles this week. Chhayana is an investigator of ours that is so awesome. She was recently homeless and is now living with her sister. She has been wanting to know if this is the right path, and the other day she was walking home and saw two white doves fly through the air. Then a few feet down the street she saw a bunch of things in a for free pile. So she looked in a few and saw this white trashbag that had 5 gorgeous new dresses her size! She said it was an answer to her prayers because she feels awkward going to church in pants. The Lord is involved in the details of our lives. So she is really progressing and I just love her SO much!

An investigator we started to teach than passed to the elders was baptized this week too! It was very exciting. He bore his testimony at his baptism and it was so powerful. New members are SO solid its incredible! I wish I had the testimony that they did somedays.

I love this area. I am learning so much and growing in ways I didn't even imagine. One thing our President talked to us about this week was the difference between happiness and fun. Last fall semester I don't think I could have had any more fun than we did. When I get bummed on the mission I think about fall days scooting around or hammocking up the canyon. Those were fun and happy days. But the happiness that the Gospel brings is SO much better. I am sad I won't be at school with everyone, but I have to be here. Because I have to bring this happiness to people that don't already have it. The feelings the Spirit brings is lasting true joy. A fulness of joy. And it is better than anything else we can feel in this life.

The mission is the greatest thing on earth. Really.

Love you all so so much!

Hermana Fischetti

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3 months out... what?

HOLA FAMILIA!!!

Wow what a week. So Sister Christensen left on Tuesday which was heartbreaking and I miss her so much. Luckily President is cool with her helping me train from afar so I get to call her a lot. I really miss her.

Our new missionary is Sister Poznanski! She is FROM FRANCE!! AHHHH She is so awesome I just love her! She is very happy and a joy to be around. But she is an english sister! Ah! So yes I am training 6 weeks out along with teaching Spanish. It is overwhelming. But if President and the Lord think that I can do this, I most certainly can. We had a lot of miraculous things happen this week. The elders gave us a referral and so we went to their house, and Alex the referral wasn't home, but her sister was! And her sister said this was an answer to her prayers and that she has been waiting for us! So she came to stake conference the day after and it was incredible! The Spirit was so strong and she loved it. We are VERY excited about teaching her. Also, after stake conference a man named Daniel just walked into the church and said I checked out Mormon.org and I want to learn more! So he committed to baptism so we will see! Very exciting! We have another miracle but I don't want to jynx it maybe I will tell you about it next week. We hda an incredible wee

The work is moving forward and we need to open our mouths! I have been studying a lot about charity lately because I need more of it. In Mosiah King Benjamin talks about serving people according to their wants. And it made me realize that we need to serve and love people according to how they receive and feel love. Not just how we like to feel it. The Savior would teach serve and love according to the individual, not just how He would do it. This has always been a problem for me so I am really trying to get better at it. Charity is the key to every relationship. Even hard ones. If we can show love in the way people need it, rather than how we want to show it, miracles will happen. 

I miss you all so much. But I am so happy and thrilled to be serving a mission. If you are ever missing me, which I know you are hehe please pray for us and the work. I really truly need as many prayers as possible to be able to do this.

Love you all to the moon and back,

Hermana Fischetti

P.S. someone tell Erin/Eleanor that Pres. Dong is always talking about them. Thanks for the insider hookup and tell Taylor her family is great! (He is in our stake presidency down here)

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C SIDE CRIPPZZZ

Our new district name is the c side cripz, we even have a gang sign. we can't really do it in public though because we have a lot of gangs hahaha. MAN missionary work is great and we had an AWESOME week.

Armando who was our investigator but we transferred him to the elders WAS BAPTIZED!!!! It was the greatest day ever. The Spirit was so strong. It blew me away. Can't wait for my first real baptism! We counted Armando as half ours haha

Also we went to Girls camp!! We got to speak to the Girls and it was so awesome. The Spirit just guided us its incredible what we can do to help the Lords work. We got them TOTALLY pumped up for missionary work annndd we sang the new lyrics to as sisters in zion and it was mindblowing. so good. the spirit was just so strong. ALSO the Santa Cruz mountains where girls camp is is the most gorgeous place on EARTH. post mish roadtrippin.

So Sister Christensen is now a Sister Training Leader and leaving Seaside :( Which means I am training! AHHHH. so please pray for me and especially pray for my new little trainee! It is going to be a wild ride but I feel really blessed.

As far as investigators are going we are having a hard time so please pray for us to find PROGRESSING investigators. Everyone loves our message but no one actually wants to take action. It is so frustrating at times. But I LOVE being a missionary. I am also realizing the importance of being happy and positive. We have the greatest message in the whole world and eternities and people NEED it. but why on earth would they want it if we are grumpy nasty or tired! We have a few sisters who are like that down here and it is frustrating. No matter what we always have to be just so full of life and smiling because thats like bearing our testimony in itself!

I love you all so so much and miss you tons but wouldn't want to be anywhere else!

Hermana Fischetti

P.S. Because Sis Chris is leaving if anyone can burn some CDs of EFY music we would really appreciate and if you could find teh song Praise the Man its an EFY song we would all love you forever

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