hello family!!

first off, thank you so much for all of your sweet words and prayers, yall have been so very supportive and for that i am extremely grateful!! i love you all so very much and even though we are not together right now i hope you never forget it. welp, it have been a pretty eventful and busy week for sure! lets see what is worthy enough and what i can remember to write to ya, ha. oh, well first off yes mom i did get the dear elder from dad last night (monday), but i never got a package slip or anything in the mail...so i don't know what's up with that. when i get back from my appointment tonight i will go check it out and let you know next week if them got it. ok, lets see, oh rhen and kori!...i saw kevin gonzalez in the mtc laundry room last p day doin some byu vending, so that was fun to see him! it is alwasy somewhat weird though to see people you know at the mtc becaseu everythingn is all so different!. This week was pretty eventful bc all of the older districts were getting ready to leave. The rest of them all left this morning, and it was sad and quite weird. now me and sister kelly have a 6 bed room all to ourselves for a little bit! kinda crazy. but yea, sleep has not been much lately. as coordinating sisters me and sis kelly woke up at 4:30 yesterday to check out the girls leaving. and then this morning we woke up at 2:30 and then 4:30 to check out the rest of them. needless to say i am tired! haah. but that is not quite unusual for the mtc. haha. but it was good to be able to see them off, and they are so sweet and will be greatly missed. So now our zone is like uber small! we have our two districts, and then only like 7 are comin in next week. i hope at least one is a sistter, that would be fun. and then the week after that only about 3 russians are comin over. i think two of those may be sisters so that will be cool. neddless to say, bc there are like no districts anymore, they are spliting our districts so that the other teachers are not left without jobs. i guess it was just kinda bad planning on there part, but oh well. ill have to let you know who ends up bein in my newer smaller district. i really hope i can stay with the teachers we have now, but we will just have to see. Ill miss my district alot, i mean ill see them in the hallways and stuff, but all the elders are just so hilarious...haha. the things they say just make me want to pee my pants sometimes. there funny. sat. night i made a fun vocab game for our district to play during study time, and the elders had so much fun!! it was funny to watch how compettivie and excited they got about it all. They want me to make up a game for every sat. night study time now, haha, so that should be lots of fun. i like games, haha. On sunday someone from the gen primary presidency came and spoke in rs, and at the end we sang that new song "i know that my savior loves me" that i helped play in primary when they were practicin it and all. i love that song and i really enjoyed sinsing it. and then after the song the wife of one of our branch presidency members turned to me crying and said "sisiter brown, if you just walk into every teaching appointment and sing that song to them, you will be set! it would invite the spirit just like that." so i thought that was super sweet!!! i wish that it was that easy sometimes, just singing and song, cause thats what i love to do!! haha. speaking of singning, this sotry is for d man. I heard that in moscow they are using the missijonarys that are good at art to do side walk chalk contacting. i guess it is pretty effective in the bigger cities. They draw these big murals etc. on the sidewalk about the churhc and try to get people more interested. how cool is that that they can use their ablilitties to further the work. you could totally do something like that on your mission dallin and that would be awesome!!!!!!ps dal, thnaks for the lettter and than awesoem drawing of me and you in russia. so onto the language, its coming along!! at least i think! again slowly, but surely. its tough and a challegne, but i lke it. We are now teaching 4 lessons a week in straight russian. it is still really hard for me to understand what the investigator is sayin back, but that will some with time. And i still have to take like 5 billion notes in to look off of and stuff for russian help, but hey at least its all in russian! oh by the way our progressive investigator dennis said yesterday that he wanted to be baptized!!!! cool huh? haha. so he is gonna be baptized on "april 3" if all goes well. it is amazing how nervous i can be before going into every lesson, but then once you get into them the spirit is just so strong and somehow i am calm. I come out not really caring what i sounded like or what i said or didin't say, but i just feel really edified by the spirit and pumped to teach people in russia. So spiritual thought for the week....the power of hymns. I can't even tell you how strong the spirit is when you invite it with good music. I love it! i have always loved the spirit that they bring, and sometimes they are the biggest testimony builders to me. Pay attention to the words when you sing hymns. i know that they will brin the spirit and strengthen your testimony! welp, im out of time. I will let you know how the appt goes today. that will be super werid to leave here and go upt to salt lake, passing the home on the way. but it will be ok. so yea ill let you know. and i don't have time to write about what has all been goin on with that, so i will send you a letter, and let me knowif you get it! i love you all! you are in my prayers and thoughts all the time! (maybe even a little tooo much!) haha, jk. i love you and prayer you are doing well! be safe!

спасиба. я люблю вас. сестра brown