Only a week and a half left :) Is our time increasing???

​Me and Masa Webb

Our cute companionship by the map :)

​Our mission!

Laba Diena Seima ir Draugai

It was another great week in the MTC!  A lot happened, once again :)  So, we are actually not leaving the MTC for another week.  We are not really sure why because the rest our mission is leaving on Monday, but the Lithuanians are being held back.  I guess we didn't pass our language tests, haha.  That's not really the reason, but we will try to step up our language skills during the extra week that we get.  I know that the Lord has a reason for us being here another week, so we are excited for week 10! I am really grateful for the extra time that I have to prepare to help the people in Lithuania.  

It will be really interesting because instead of 7 Lithuanians going to Lithuania in a week and a half, we are down to 4.  Elder Wiley has been permanently reassigned to a service mission here in Utah, and Elder Lyon and Hassell have been temporarily reassigned to the Chicago, Illinois Mission because their visas won't come in time. So those two leave on Monday without us!  Hopefully it is only for a transfer.  It's been an interesting week!  The flight plans should be comingtomorrow :)

Yesterday, we were able to skype again with an actual Lithuanian.  I love it so much because it reassures us that there are actual people that speak this language and that we can sort of speak it too.  It is so cool to feel the spirit as we invite others to come unto Christ.

Last night we were assigned to be the missionaries that teach an investigator in front of some of the new missionaries- the ones that came in yesterday.  I remember being the new missionary nine weeks ago and watching the two Elders teach an investigator in front of us.  I thought to myself that I could never do that.  I could not just talk to a stranger, let alone in front of a huge crowd!! But, with God's help I did do that.  And it was an incredible experience.  I know that if we pray and ask for help, He will help us!  We just need to trust in Him and not fear.  This is His work and glory, and He is not an absent leader.  He is here helping us now.  I was pretty scared, but there is no reason to fear.  Let us not be ashamed of Christ's gospel, for He is the only way and name that we can be saved.  Heavenly Father is just waiting for us to ask Him for help.  He is there with His hands outstretched.  Through Christ, I have been able to learn a little bit of this language and bring others unto Him.

I am excited for this time I get here at the MTC.  We will try to do this week right, haha!  I love you all so much! You are the greatest.
Love Sese Dzerman

​For Laura Rees, this is her friend Elder Jensen from Tremonton

​Me and Sis Kal

​Me and Sis Kho

​Our cute district with the Mangums.

​Our Malay Elders

The Malay Elders are weird:)

​Our temple walk -don't mind my weird arm.

Our trio

​Sis Howell, Sis Kho, me , Sis Kino. These are Sis Kho's companions, and I love them so much!

Here are the three of us. Good thing I look gorgeous :)

With Sister Merkley on her way to the Ukraine

​For our cute mommies :)

​Elder Hassell, me, Elder Lyon.  They are companions now, the zone leaders.  I was companions with Elder Hassell for like more than half of my time here. They are great.

​These are my new compaions. Elder Seegmiller, me, then Elder Waters. They are awesome too!

​These are the Latvians - Elders Neville and my technical companion, Masa Webb.

​These are the other two Lithunanian Elders - Elder Jones and Elder Wiley are companions.

Us again

With one of my USU roommates, Sister Cook

Ready....

Aim.... 

Spike! 

We love to play Spike Ball!

11 days left :)

Sis Webb, me, Sis Kaleopa, Sis Trench, Sis Hartt, and Sis Baron

Laba Diena!

This week was super awesome!! Sorry, I don't have a lot of time!!

Elder Oaks came and talked with us Tuesday night, and it was amazing.  He talked about the importance of teaching with the spirit.  If we don't have the spirit, we cannot teach.  We need to rely on the Lord and let Him guide us.

Elder Hassell took a picture of us when our faces came up on the big screen during choir.  We're pretty famous, as the camera finds us every week :)

We also listened to a film of Elder Holland.  He told us to astonish somebody!!  We can't expect life to be easy because it wasn't easy for the Savior.  Through our trials, we come to know Him better.  

We love our new companion Sister Kaleopa.  We have lots of fun laughing with her and learning about Australia.  

Today we got to move residence halls, so that was fun.  We have been the only ones in our building, so now we get to be around other sisters again.  

We hosted again and welcomed new Malagasys to our zone.  There is an Elder Jensen, I think, from Tremonton, Utah.  He did student council with Laura!  I also know Elder Brown from American Fork.  He is also in our zone, learning Malay.  

  It truly is a blessing to be here right now and be so close with the spirit all the time.  I have to rely on Heavenly Father every day, and that has been truly humbling.  But I know He will help us always with everything and anything if we just ask.

Things are going awesome!  We get flight plans tomorrow!!!! So I will tell you about those next week.  We are so excited!!

I know that God loves us and that through Christ's atonement, we can be clean again.

  

I love all of you so much

Love, Sese Dzerman

My teacher Sister Fish

 My Lithuanians.    Me with our teacher Sis Fish, Elder Lyon, Elder Hassell, Wiley, Jones, Seegmiller, and Waters. 

​Our tripanionship

Sis Kaleopa and her Elders

Sis Kaleopa (from Australia) and her lava lava

Elder Lyon put 16 wafers in his mouth.  Another day he got in 100 skittles!

Elder Seegmiller "double spoons" Elder Neville

Week 7 is Heaven

Sisters

Laba Diena!

This past week has been so good!! Lots of things happened, so super fun!  My companion Elder Hassell was made Zone Leader, along with Elder Lyon.  My new teaching companions are Elder Waters and Elder Seegmiller, so that will be cool.  Masa and I are now Sister Training Leaders, and I love it.  It has really helped me to turn out and look to help others.  I can't focus on myself at all, so that has been great.  

We also got a new companion!!! Her name is Sister Kaleopa; she is from Australia so she has a super cool accent.  She is going to Indonesia.  She is in a different district, but she is the only sister so she is our companion, and we love it.  She is amazing; I like being a triplet with all three of us.

P-Day with our new companion, Sister Kaleopa

Yesterday we skyped for our first time with a Lithuanian member.  She was so cool.  Luckily she talked slowly so that we could somewhat understand her.  We taught her about faith and how it leads us to repent, keep our covenants, follow Holy Ghost, and endure to the end.  It was a great experience.  

We also hosted the new missionaries yesterday too!  I got to host 6 sisters, so that was really fun.  It brought back great memories of my first day here.  I have loved my experience at the MTC; I have learned so much. It has been a great blessing!  We also got to welcome the new Malay Elders and Sister Kaleopa with the zone leaders.  We took them on a tour and had fun with them - we really have a great district and zone.  The gospel is awesome.

I know that the Lord loves and helps us so much.  He gives us tender mercies every day.  He wants us to turn to Him so that we can become more like Him.  With God, all things are possible.  

Love you all

Love Sasa Dzerman

Beautiful day at the Temple

With Sister Ipson

AF 9th ward Sister Missionaries!

With Elder Chadwick from American Fork

Response to her Dad

Thanks Dadio!

We are all doing fantastic!!  Yep, we are still playing sand volleyball in the sun, which I love.  We still need to do spike ball again.  But we did did four square twice, which is way fun.  I love that game :)  We go to the temple once a week, every pday morning.  We are supposed to do laundry after lunch, but we just go in the morning after the temple.  It is often crowded, but not always.  Even if it is, we just wait a bit.  Haha, you know me, I would not get up at 4:00 (like Jason) no matter how many people were in that laundry room, but he probably had more missionaries then.  We have about 2500 missionaries now.  2/3 are elders, 1/3 sisters.   

   Everything is just great!  I see Sis Day, Sis Ipson, Sis Kho all the time.  It is the best!!  Seriously so fun.  I'm glad they came on missions, to see me :)

   Haha, yeah it is really fun to try to speak with a Native.  It just makes me that much more excited to go to Lithuania! 
   So fun that Jas is home and has a car, I knew he would haha.   I am praying for you too.  Love you so much!

Love Sasa Dzerman

"Spooning" at the MTC - the indoor sport!

​We "spooned" Elder Wiley 

​  while he was asleep

3 times!
We are really good at it.  I promise we work too, this was just a quick break

They spooned Elder Hassel on the tie without him noticing.  He is a champion "spooner" and he said this was an impossible job, but Elder Lyon got him!

In Lithuanina, "yes" is "taip".  So everytime Elder Seegmiller says "taip," he holds up tape.  We think its pretty funny, its a joke we have ;0

Laba Diena!

This week was super awesome! 
I saw so many great missionaries that I know! 

With Elder Cannon

Elder Cannon

I saw Sister Day,

Sister Day (childhood friend)

Sister Ipson,

Sister Ipson (9th ward Friend)

Sister Cook, and Sister Kho

of course. 

Sister Kho (Elementary Friend)

It's so fun to run into people that you know and love.  It just makes my heart so happy!

On Sunday, we sang with the Nashville Tribute Band, and it was so fun!  They sang so many great songs about the restoration of the church, truth and light, past prophets, and being a missionary.  I love that they share the gospel through their music.  Listening to them was definitely different from what our usual devotionals are, but it was so cool.  They even shared spiritual messages in between their songs.  First time in MTC history, and hopefully not the last.  

Today we went to the temple, which I always love.

and my companion, Sister Webb

We did laundry, which is super fun.  A great time to meet lots and lots of missionaries here in the MTC.  And also nice if you can get the laundry done too :)

This week I learned about the importance of being confident.  We shouldn't be scared to share or live the gospel.  This is the path to eternal life, and we should boldly share it with others!  The gospel is such a blessing!  We should have faith in the Lord and press forward.  

We also listened to Elder Echo Hawk this week.  He told us that we should make the one decision to follow Jesus Christ, not a thousand different decisions during the day.  With that one decision, we will be blessed as we simply follow Him. 

I know that as we go to the Lord with the faith that we have, He will give us more.  He will help our unbelief.  I know He is there.  Jesus Christ is not an absent leader of His church.

Aš mylui jums! Love you all.

Meile Sesuo Dzerman

"Masa" Webb and "Sesuo Dzerman