Week 5: April 11

Hola familia & amigos,

All is well here at the MTC, so not much has happened here. I'm finally in a regular routine and my companion has healed really well. We had to go to a doctor's appointment for her post op checkup on Thursday, you know it's funny it seems wherever you go someone knows somebody who's served a mission where you live, and that's what happened at the doctor's appointment. So we show up and first the receptionist is where are we going and then she asks where we're from. Then she tells me she has a brother who served in the Hartford mission 10 years ago. It's crazy the things you find out about people when you're a missionary.

 Last Sunday Vai Sekehempa spoke to us and I was so happy because I didn't have to take notes!!! He told us just to sit back and enjoy and listen, it was a nice change of pace. Then on Tuesday, Elder Robert C. Oaks spoke to us and my companion was in charge of the benediction so I got to sit up on the stand, and I had a really good seat. Elder Oaks spoke about the importance of using the Holy Ghost as a missionary and how to use it in our planning to make us more effective. I got the chance to speak with him after the devotional, and he said to say hi to dad. I thought that was cool. For those of you who don't know, he was my Stake President when my family first moved to Pennsylvania. He and my dad were both diagnosed with cancer at the same time. So they made a special bond together when we lived there. 

 Overall it's been pretty low key, we do a lot of role playing to practice learning and teaching the gospel.  Because it's the MTC we get to be the investigators too. A trio of elders are teaching my companion and me, and we are getting baptized in two weeks, but right now I'm not sure about the word of wisdom and so I have to gain a testimony about it. It's really cool being the investigator and pretending you're someone else with real needs and because it's the only way for missionaries to get good practice the Lord really gives missionaries inspiration for the investigators even fake ones like me. It's really amazing because we pray and study for each of our investigators and as long as we are in tune with the spirit we receive revelation for them. 

We got a new district this week, and I'm super excited about it, we got new hermanas and they're really shy so we haven't gotten to know them very well yet. But it's nice to have new blood because the other two districts leave next week and then the week after, so it's good.

I got to go to the temple again this morning, having P-day on Monday really starts the week off right. 

Oh yesterday the BYU men's chorus came and gave us a concert instead of a fireside which was awesome!!! They sang a bunch of different songs and they are sooo gooood!!! Other than that not much to talk about today. Pretty low key, I'm tired but that's to be expected, and that won't go away until I come home. Tell me about everyone and everything. 

Love you all and I pray for you all ten thousand times a day. Hermana Dilzer

PS tell casey to write me!!!

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