Week One:)

Hey everyone,
I cant believe it’s almost been a week here at the MTC. The days are long, but when you get to the end everything seems to have passed in the blink of an eye. There are four hermanas in my district, making eight in the entire zone. Hermana Rivera is my companion and is from California, the other companionship is Hermana Payne and Sorensen. They’re all really nice. Everyone except Hermana Payne is going to the same mission. All of us including the elders are Spanish speaking. The language is coming slowly, but I work hard, pray and do my best which is all I can ask of myself.  We’re teaching our first lesson on Wednesday and thankfully this time it’s in English, however all the rest of them will be in Spanish. They have us do a lot of memorization and because our missions are stateside we have to learn our lessons in both English and Spanish.  So far I’ve been able to memorize the mission purpose and the baptismal commitment and I’m hoping by the end of the week to have finished the first vision and D&C 4. The food is typical cafeteria food so its ok, but I miss home. There’s an Hermana in my zone named Hermana Williams and she reminds me a lot of Casey, she even played the symbols. Sunday we took pictures in front of the temple, I’ll send those later due to time. My companion and my other roommates are big exercise fanatics so I find myself waking up at 5:30am to go to early morning exercise classes in addition to our normal gym time, I guess its good for me. Today is P-day so I’m doing laundry and writing this letter but this morning we got to do a session at the temple. The MTC  is pretty big so I find myself getting lost luckily my companion has a good sense of direction. 
I miss the greenery and talking to all of you. I’m looking forward to hearing from everyone, my best to the family and the ward, but most of all home. Only eight weeks till my departure date which is tentatively set for May 10th. I love you all. Please keep me updated. My testimony is already growing by leaps and bounds.
Love,
Hermana Arianne Dilzer