1st week in the mission field

Hey everyone!!!
     I was really happy to talk you you on Wednesday, It's been a really crazy week this week. So I got to Houston on Wednesday in the early afternoon and it was wicked hot and humid!!!! So we met the mission president and his wife, President and Sister Moldenhauer. They're really nice. They took us to this BBQ place for lunch and when you walk in and the first thing you do is you choose your piece of meat and they cut it. Then you pick out the rest of what you want the vegetables and the macaroni and cheese and beans and other things. Pretty awesome. Afterwards we went back to the mission home and we had our interviews and they gave us some info and then at around 5:30 we were introduced to our companions and told which area we would be serving in. My companion's name is Hermana Naufahu and her family came to the US in the late sixties from Tonga, and she grew up in the Bay area of California. My companion is very nice but we a definitely different people and we are still working out the kinks of our companionship.
Our area is in the Broadway 2 which is technically in the Houston south mission boundaries but our Spanish areas overlap their English areas so Broadway 2,3, and Pasadena are actually part of our mission but not within the mission boundaries because they have a Spanish Stake.


 The language they taught me in the MTC is not the language that I hear and I barely understand any of it. When I went to church on Sunday I only understood one word and that was because the said it in English.
 The ward members here are nice but I have to get used to the hugging and the kissing me. They also like to feed us and so we have a meal appointment almost every day. They give us a lot of food and my companion and the members can pack it in, but I can't at all. Not nearly to the degree that they can! The food is super spicy and they're all telling me that it's not spicy at all. We had this meat cooked with chocolate and peppers and  my companion thought it was sweet but it was the spiciest thing I had ever eaten. The Pelacio family fed us Sunday afternoon and they made ham grinders with some other sort of spicy meat, mayonnaise with lime and guacamole, and they packed on the onions. Oh my gosh I could barely get it down. Suffice it to say I don't like guacamole, mangoes, or warm pasta salad. Hopefully, as time passes I'll get used to the food, but until then I'll keep drinking lots of water to fill me up.
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The land is really flat here which makes it a great place for biking and we bike most of the time. I always push to bike, so I can get out of driving. My companion used to drive before I got here but for some reason she doesn't anymore. I don't know why, she hasn't told me, but apparently the mission president knows so I'm the designated driver. On my first night here I had to drive the freeway all the way in from Kingwood into Houston because our area is in the city. 
 The area is taking me a lot of getting used to but my heart is softening. I'm starting to come out of the "crazed"... I don't understand anything zone and I'm beginning to really enjoy it.
 So, funny story the other night when I arrived my companion told me that we have a cockroach problem here every once in a while. So, the next evening when we got back to our apartment, in the kitchen there were tons of cockroaches and it was disgusting!!!! BECAUSE you just don't allow things to get that bad!!!! So I freaked out. I was on the verge of asking to be transferred to English speaking area (they are the nicer areas) or go home. Well, we called Elder House and found boric acid kills them and so I'm in cockroach killing mode and we have boric acid everywhere!!! 
I love and miss you all, Hermana Dilzer

Week 9 & 10 :

Dear Family & Friends,

      So we're in the final stretch to the end of the time here at the MTC. I'm kinda getting nervous but I'm still excited at the same time. It's kind of crazy but I can't wait to get into the field. It's weird to think that in six days I will be off doing the Lord's work. Apparently I will  be with my trainer for three months which I think will be good to set me off on the right foot.  I know that this is the Lord's work and that I'm learning so much from this and please pray for my future investigators that they will be prepared and that I may be able to discover their needs.

      Today was our last temple trip which is a bummer because it's the last one I'll have before I get off of my mission because the temple is in the Houston mission not the Houston East.

      I'm almost done with reading through the Book of Mormon and now I'm going to read the new testament the whole way through too.

      Oh if I get a phone in the airport and can call, it's not necessarily a sure thing depending on how much time we have between getting to the airport and our flight. Please wake Casey up so I can talk to her too. It was nice to hear about your garden and I definitely miss digging my hands in the dirt and planting flowers. I just miss the sun, but in just a couple of days I will be getting my fair share of warm sweaty humid sun.

  Happy Mother's Day to everyone! 

 Love,  Hermana Dilzer

Dear Families,

Your Missionary has arrived safely to T.H.E. Mission! They were treated to a Texas BBQ and we enjoyed a great afternoon together. Wednesday evening they met their new companion and arrived safely in their new areas. They are now out diligently searching for our Heavenly Father's children and doing the work of the Lord. Thank you for sending your daughters and sons to us, they have added great strength to our small army here in the Texas Houston East Mission. We love them and are so grateful to have them with us. You will find attached a picture of  your newly arrived missionary with Sister Moldenhauer and myself and a picture with their trainer. 
We are delighted that your Missionary is here and look forward to working with them.
Sincerely,
President and Sister Moldenhauer