well first off, this letter is going to be typed uber uber fast, cause there is a lot of stuff to say before i head out next week for russia! wohoo!! ok, grandma thank you for those beautiful pics you emailed of the snow! they are great! and thanks everyone for dear elders and emails and such. i knew that the college kids were having their exams about this time, so i was thinking about t and sara and rhen and kori and how they were doing. oh man, i forgot kori would be graduating!!! that is crazy but so exciting!! shout out to you girl! good luck and congrats! also good luck to t and sara and rhen on your exams. Oh rhen, and dad said you got into the CM major. Congrats bro! i bet you're excited. well it sounds like everything is going good. Things here are pretty great to. The weather has been absolutely beautiful and warm and i love the sun! the mtc sport field opened last week and so now for gym we can play out there or run around up by the temple. it is wonderful and i love it!! it is amazing the wonders that some sun and warmth does for my spirits. So hosting the new sisters last wed was alot of fun! and we get to do it again tomorrow. Also, me and sister kelly were selected to be demonstrators for the orientation that they do tomorrow night for the new missionaries. We come up in front of a big group of new missionaries, and we demonstrate with an investigator how to "begin teaching". it will be kinda weird cause im used to doing it in russian hah, but we will see how it goes in english. it should be pretty fun. Last week was the last time that they are doing the mtc choir, cause they are renovating the gym and the seats and stuff. So that was really fun to be a part of that and to also be able to sing in that choir last week the last time for a few months. welp, just keeping busy packing and studyin alot. tryin to cram in what i can as far as the language goes. I have realized now with this 100 percent russian thing how little i know!!! haha. i need to get better at studyin for that. Other than that just the usual! sorry that nothing here is to exciting. after being here for 12 weeks its pretty crazy the things you run out of to say cause its just the same old same old. but i am more than excited to get to russia and actually teach some real people!!!!!! (and a little bit scared too, haha)
speaking of Russia. we obviously have our flight plans. i don't know if they emailed you. but this is basically whats goin on. I leave mon the 26th. our flight leaves from salt lake at 8:35 am. then we get to New York at 3:13 pm (im not sure if that's new york time or utah time) then we make an uber quick switch and leave from ny at 4:05pm. and then it says that we will arrive in MOSCOW, RUSSIA at 10:10 am on tues the 27th. so there ya go! and yes, i will be trying to call. the layover in ny is def no time, so If i do have time to call early in the morning before we get on in salt lake that is what i will do. So if any of you want to talk to me!!!! haha. but i will be calling soon on mothers day too when in russia. but yea, we leave the mtc at like 5:30 i think, and then drive up to the airport and get checked in and stuff. So i probably won't be able to talk for too long, but i will try and make a quick call. And yes mom, i don't know how the calling card works. You can either send me one and give me instructions, or you can buy one and keep in there, and then just give me the number and instructions through dearelder or something. Whatever you would like to do will work great! Also sometime this week i will be mailing home a few things that im not gonna take with me. And i got a hep A shot the other day, and im mailing home that receipt too so that you can file it with our insurance. that is what they told me to do. but yea i hope that there was some money in my account, cause i paid 70 dollars for that shot.
im glad to hear that everyone had a great week and that all was so fun. Dad it sounds like you had some fun adventures with that lovely car! and mom and ange, those cinnamon rolls sounded delicious!! I hope yall are doing great and never forget that i love you so so so much! we watched a lot of the old mormon ad commercials the other night for devotional, and it was the best devotional ever!! the inspirational messages from them were good, and then the kids in them and the families were just so cute!! they made me think of yall! one of them the family tricked the dad into comin out into the camper and then locked him in and drove away to go camping. i thought it was funny and it reminded of all those fun camping trips we made in SC that always got rained out! haha. good times.
This week has been soooooooo good!!! i don't know what it is, but i have truly been blessed and i am so grateful for your unending support and love!! it truly has been a miracle. no lie. and i have been feeling pretty great! I meet with the counselor in just a little bit, and they decide on how i am feeling if they think i could go out to russia now and be fine. I honestly think im going now. I would be surprised if they told me to stay. I think i am feeling very well, obviously im still pretty nervous about a whole new world and stuff, but i think they will send me out. I know that i just need to believe and trust and have faith and keep smiling. All in all i feel very wonderful compared to before. But yes, thank you for your thoughts, prayers and fasting. I still feel like i totally don't deserve it all, but i have been so blessed and i am always so very grateful for the amazing people i have as family and friends. And i am grateful for my savior and his atonement. I know now more than i ever have before that the atonement is real!!!! and it encompasses everything!!!! i love you all! and i will write soon today in the mail to tell you how this appointment goes. other than that, ill be talkin to ya and soon be in russia! next email i will be a true russian princess!!! Love you all again, and i don't think i need anything. im actually tryin to get rid of stuff. but if i do ill write snail mail. Love you all and im prayin for you!!! take care! until next week!!!
love Sister Brown
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