Week 7: April 28

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Hello Family and Friends,

      Okay lots of news first of all they completely changed the MTC schedule without telling us anything ahead of time so from now until May 11 my p day (prep day) is Thursday instead of Monday. They completely reorganized everything on our schedules so I now get to eat really early and everything dinner is now at 4:30.

      Please thank everyone so much for the letters it really meant a lot to me. I definitely miss being able to see family and friends but I'm constantly reminded that I'm on the Lord's time and that as long as I'm focused I will be blessed. The letters and package made my Easter amazing! Plus we had really really good speakers all week. So last Tuesday Elder Richard G Scott spoke to us about pretty much everything under the sun and whatever came into his head. The cool thing about MTC talks is that they are for the missionaries right then and there. They will never be heard again even though they are recorded they are not available publicly. Anyway so Elder Scott asked all of us who are learning a language to raise our hands and then he told us that with his apostolic authority he bestowed upon all of us the gift of tongues. My branch president said that's exactly the same as if he had laid his hands upon us individually so I thought that was pretty cool. He seemed a little ill and he didn't shake hands with us and he said that he normally does. Oh but he gave us all virtual hugs. On Sunday Elder Allen an area seventy spoke he used to be in charge of church films and mostly the commercials and so he did a talk completely based on old church commercials and so that was funny and a nice change. Tuesday Elder Dallin H Oaks and his wife spoke to us about the Holy Ghost and how to be the best missionary that we can. Plus he gave us some really cool missionary statistics like there were just under 1600 missionaries in the MTC on Tues (it's the slow time of the year) and over half stay in  the US or go to Canada and over a third of the language missionaries are speaking spanish.  The MTC keeps it a big secret who's speaking but they have a dinner for those who speak on Tuesday night and they invite members of different branch presidencies to the dinner and Brother and Sister Jackson in my Branch Presidency were invited this Tuesday so the MTC told them ahead of time and Sister Jackson told us sister missionaries, so we knew on Sunday who was coming on Tuesday.

 Oh I got my travel plans!!!! I leave May 11 and I am allowed to call you from the airport I just have to find out where to by a calling card!!! I won't be able to call on Mother's Day because there are too many missionaries. I get to the airport around 7am and my flight leaves at 8:30 no layover!!!

 Please pray for Hermana Payne she's sick and nauseated and dizzy and the doctor doesn't know what's wrong with her yet and she's been feeling miserable for a while now. 

The language is coming along pretty well and we are doing a lot of teaching. Our zone is now down to 2 districts aka 14 people. It's really small. The district ahead of us left on Tuesay morning at 3 am I had to check out the sisters Monday night it was kind of crazy they hadn't even vacuumed at 10:30pm so I had to jump in and help them clean or their roomates would have been up all night. I kind of miss them but at least I have the other sisters in my district.

 President Stone, my branch president and his wife are going to Isreal this week which is really cool. Sister Stone will get a PET scan once they come back to see if she needs to do any more chemo so please pray for her. She was diagnosed last year with stage 4 breast cancer and she's been doing better so we hope the scan will go well.

 It's a bummer Mama Fackrell hasn't had her baby. I hope she has the baby soon.

 Send my love and my good wishes. Love you all, Hermana Dilzer