hello family!!

first off, angela told me in her email that noelle broke her wrist!!! well, i was very sad to hear that and hope that noelle is doing well. thats kinda crazy! tell her i love her and hope everything heals up all ok. that stinks. well, thank you family for everything you do!!! you are amazing, and i could not ask for a more loving people. Thank you for all of your notes and letters and sweet emails. You are all so supportive of me and for that i am extremely grateful, words just can't even describe. I got your dear elder natalie! thank you! Ok, lets see what all happened this week. So yea, had my doctors visit and have been takin my medication since. I don't know if the medication has kicked in yet, or if it was some help i got from the counselor, but this week has gone by a lot better. And i know it is from prayers from all of you too. Thank you for everything!! but yes, i have been feeling well, and that has made the experience here a lot lot better. thanks again. and we are tryin to check in and make sure that it will be possible to get tests and checkups done in russia for my thyroid medication, cause i guess you have to adjust that every few months for the first year. so hopefully that will all work out and i will let you know. um lets see, oh so last wed. i was waiting for my friend to enter the mtc (angie hatch) and so i saw her so that was fun! and while i was waiting for her guess who else walked in!..... jenny hayes!!!! ya, i was so surpriesd! i had no idea she was serving a mission and she said that yea, not many people did. but i am very excited for her and she is serving in cananda, english speaking i believe. so she will be leaving the mtc in a few weeks i think. but that was very fun and crazy to see her. oh mom, thank you soo sooo much for the wonderful package! oh man i absolutly love the music! how did you know i would love it! i had been wonderfin if i should look into getting some music, but then i just pushed it aside and decided i wouldn't worry to much about it. but i man i love it! i opened up that package and was just so happy! I love music soo soo much and it was hardd not hearin any for a month.hahah. thank you thank you again. it is wonderful. so are district has been split. very sad. me and sis kelly and 2 other elders have been taken out of our district and put in a new one with new teachers. we will move our stuff out today. its kinda werid, and im totally gonna miss bein in class all day with those elders. they are totally so fun and i just love em. they will still be in our zone though, so we will see them. I am really sad about changing teachers too. bro bradford and bro hansen were some awesome teachers, and we were sad to leave. and they were the only ones doing that new program i told you about, where we had many opportunities to teach progressive investigators, etc. we were te4aching 4 lessons a week in russian, but now since we have been moved we will not be on that program. So we had to tell our progressive investigators that we were being "transferred" and wouldn't be able to teach them anymore. One of them had a baptismal date too, so we won't be able to see geHHuc get "baptized". even though they were "fake" investigators, it was actually quite sad, because we had been teaching them the gospel for a month. You put all that time in teaching them all about what you love and konw to be true, and then you leave and just pray that they will one day understand. So yea, we will get our new district and teachers tomorrow. it will be good thorugh and we will have new experiences and learn new things with our new district. im sad, but excited. so we will see. oh mom you asked me if i am ok with money? yea, i should be. cause the counselor doesn't cost they said, and the visit to the doctor were only like 10 each and the med. was only 5 i think. so they keep that bill here and i can pay it at the end. actually about the dr visit in slc im not sure. I don't konw where they sent that bill. didi you get it? or do they send it to the mtc for me to pay? i don't know. i guess we will have to figure all the crazy annoying stuff out. haha. So sunday i taught the district lesson on faith and hope. and i actually offered to do so and was so excited about it!!! weird i know! who would have thought that acacia would like to give lessons and district discussions???!! not me! haah, but it is fun. So this week we get new elders! yea!!! we are the older ones now! it makes us feel kinda cool. there are 7 elders, no sisters...sad. but we might get some russian sisiters next week. So russian is comin along. still slowly, but better. I know i will get out to russia and just know not alot haha, but it gonna be so fun!! oh and we got our russian language nametags! sweet! ill take a pick and send it to ya. our last name is spelled bpayH. pretty cool. so this week i have been thinking about the tender mercies of the Lord. and how the Lord watches and takes care of all his children. I try to right in my journal each night and then also write down the tender mercies from the Lord that day. It is nice to look back and see what all we have truly been given and blessed with. The Lord does not leave us comfortless, and He is always with us. He leads us along in everything we do. Each day we are shaped as we humble ourselves, and strive to become more like him. I love this gospel. I love my God and my Savior. Take care this week! lvoe you all and hope it is a great one! be safe! and be good, do well, have fun! give noelles wrist and big kiss for me k?! loves! hugs and kisses to everyone! ange ill write you a letter and im sending a few pics in it too! All my love, Sister Brown