address. either postcard. or letters have to be one sheet of paper folded into thirds taped with 2 pieces of tape at the top( no envelopes) sent to
Elder Alex William Bennett
Russia Novosibirsk Mission
P.O. Box 30150
Salt Lake City, UT 84130-0150
or to send letter in envelope or other physical mail (name is last
Russia 630102
Novosibirsk
46 Kirova Street
Russia Novosibirsk Mission
Elder Alex William Bennett
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Hello!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Tuesday, June 28, 2011 11:41 PM
From: "Alex Bennett"View contact detailsTo: "vicki bennett" Ohhhhhhh man, what an eventful week! First off, I'd like to announce that I love you all very very very much!!! I miss you all and hope things are going great! I will send an SD card with pictures on it and my english tags here pretty soon. If you'd like, you can still write letters occasionaly, it's always good to have a tangible message every once in a while, but thank you for all of the emails, i really appreciate them. Well, about a week ago, i was "reborn". I was born in the city of Tomsk ("born" is the first area that you serve in and you "die" when you serve in your last city) It's a college town and it's really beautiful. The drivers are CRAZY though! It's really fun to ride on the buses, they go pretty fast. My papa (term for trainer) is Elder Peterson. I'm soooo glad that he is my companion! He is so funny, nice, and has taught me so much. He is awesome!!!Oh and he also saved both of us from getting jumped by some drunks when we were contacting the other. I was on the fence about telling you, but everything is fine were both safe, so I thought I'd let you know :) It was Sunday and we were walking down the street by the bus stop and two very drunk college age boys stopped us and were asking about the church. They got really close and started grabbing Elder Petersons arm he told them to not touch him. One of them said that he was going to take one of us to go buy beer and stay and talk to the other one. Luckily there was a person walking by and Elder Peterson told them that we needed help and we started walking across the street with him. After we were on the other side of the street we booked it! They were yelling that we were from the CIA or Nado and American spies. Goes to show that Heavenly Father is watching out for his missionaries! But everythings alright don't worry :) Anyway, There is actually an official branch building that the church owns here which is really nice. We go there for English club (which we had last night, we taught some vocab and phrases for weather), church, and when we meet with a member or investigator. It was quite the adrenaline rush when we were at church and Elder Haynes (ZL) told me seconds before sacrament meeting started that I was going to testify up at the pulpit. I'll admit it, i about pooped my pants when i heard that. But it turned out great, i think that most of the members understood me and they thought that my russian was funny. I asked "Ponyatna" after i said everything and the members and the branch presidency were nodding their heads and chuckling a little bit. Im sooo blessed, we have such amazing members. They sacrifice so much and are so dedicated to serving the Lord. I was really lucky, there was a baptism this first week that i came! Elder Peterson is on his last visa trip so for the last couple days i have been on an exchange with Elder Haynes. We had family night the other night with some members it was really fun! We played games and ate a lot of candy. Oh, and let everyone know that I say hello, I can only write two emails a week: 1 to the mission president and 1 to yall. I've had borsh, it's suprisingly delicious! I've had a little bit of culture shock yes, but I love it. Papa can probably remember from the "Best Two Years" movie when he looks like a deer in the headlights when he's talking to the one person, i've had a lot of those moments :) but its really getting better, i'm understanding a lot more, i'm getting a lot of help from my companion, the members, and the Lord. It'll be weird when i'll be able to rattle it off one day! Well I will tell you more in the weeks to come. There is just so much to tell that i can't smoosh it into one email and i have to read all of the emails and write one to the Pres. which takes up some of the time. Thanks for being the best family in the world!!! I love you all SOOO MUCH!! - Elder Bennett :) :) :)
From: "Alex Bennett"
Thursday, June 23, 2011
23 June 2011
Dear Parents:
We just want to let you know that your son has arrived in the Russia Novosibirsk Mission safely. He has arrived in great shape despite the approximately 36 hours in transit.
The process includes leaving the MTC around 5:30 AM on Monday morning, leaving the Salt Lake City Airport, flying through New York or Atlanta to Moscow, spending 12 hours in Moscow applying for a second passport then boarding a Russian airline at 10:30 PM for a flight arriving in Novosibirsk at 5:30 AM Wednesday. Keep in mind that we are 13 hours ahead of Utah in the city of Novosibirsk.
He has been met by President and Sister Trejo, fed breakfast, and been put to bed for a few hours, oriented over 2 days and sent to his assigned city.
The Novosibirsk Mission is larger, in area, than the United States. We have missionaries in six cities and transfers involve long bus and train rides. Because of the difficult conditions and incredibly long distance from their mission president these faithful missionaries serve in, this is known as a Green Beret mission and requires “outrageously obedient” missionaries. We are so grateful that your valiant son has been sent here to join this work. In your letters to him will you remind him of the honor it is to serve in such a mission.
Here is how the mail gets to your missionary. All mail comes to the office and although this address is slightly different from what may have come in their missionary packet, this is the address suggested by Olga, one of our Russian office staff. Russian addresses go from the largest entity to the smallest.
Russia 630102
Novosibirsk
46 Kirova Street
Russia Novosibirsk Mission
The name of your missionary
The mail collects here until either zone conference, once every 6 weeks, or until someone is heading that way for transfers or other meetings. If something is very urgent, you are better off using email that they get to check on their Wednesday P-days, usually in the morning. They only get an hour on the internet to receive and to send and they are allowed to only write one letter for family and one to the mission president. It is suggested that others send via pouch mail to Salt Lake(single sheet tri-fold) or send to the office address. Please be sure that you write weekly emails to your missionary and then as an added bonus, packages and letters. Be aware that packages can take 2-2 ½ months to arrive at the office and then it can take 6 weeks to get it to the missionary depending on where they are serving. Be sure to plan ahead for Christmas so think of sending in September or October.
The first missionaries to serve in Russia arrived on 26 January 1990. The first official recognition of the Church in Russia was granted to the branch in Leningrad on 13 September 1990 with republic-wide recognition being granted on 28 May 1991. The Russia Novosibirsk Mission was formed July 1994 so it is almost 17 years old. It is a fairly young mission and it is exciting to work with members that are very strong in spirit and small in numbers.
Thank you for your son. We will take good care of him.
Attached are pictures of him and President and Sister Trejo.
Sister McCauley
Russia Novosibirsk Mission Secretary
Dear Parents:
We just want to let you know that your son has arrived in the Russia Novosibirsk Mission safely. He has arrived in great shape despite the approximately 36 hours in transit.
The process includes leaving the MTC around 5:30 AM on Monday morning, leaving the Salt Lake City Airport, flying through New York or Atlanta to Moscow, spending 12 hours in Moscow applying for a second passport then boarding a Russian airline at 10:30 PM for a flight arriving in Novosibirsk at 5:30 AM Wednesday. Keep in mind that we are 13 hours ahead of Utah in the city of Novosibirsk.
He has been met by President and Sister Trejo, fed breakfast, and been put to bed for a few hours, oriented over 2 days and sent to his assigned city.
The Novosibirsk Mission is larger, in area, than the United States. We have missionaries in six cities and transfers involve long bus and train rides. Because of the difficult conditions and incredibly long distance from their mission president these faithful missionaries serve in, this is known as a Green Beret mission and requires “outrageously obedient” missionaries. We are so grateful that your valiant son has been sent here to join this work. In your letters to him will you remind him of the honor it is to serve in such a mission.
Here is how the mail gets to your missionary. All mail comes to the office and although this address is slightly different from what may have come in their missionary packet, this is the address suggested by Olga, one of our Russian office staff. Russian addresses go from the largest entity to the smallest.
Russia 630102
Novosibirsk
46 Kirova Street
Russia Novosibirsk Mission
The name of your missionary
The mail collects here until either zone conference, once every 6 weeks, or until someone is heading that way for transfers or other meetings. If something is very urgent, you are better off using email that they get to check on their Wednesday P-days, usually in the morning. They only get an hour on the internet to receive and to send and they are allowed to only write one letter for family and one to the mission president. It is suggested that others send via pouch mail to Salt Lake(single sheet tri-fold) or send to the office address. Please be sure that you write weekly emails to your missionary and then as an added bonus, packages and letters. Be aware that packages can take 2-2 ½ months to arrive at the office and then it can take 6 weeks to get it to the missionary depending on where they are serving. Be sure to plan ahead for Christmas so think of sending in September or October.
The first missionaries to serve in Russia arrived on 26 January 1990. The first official recognition of the Church in Russia was granted to the branch in Leningrad on 13 September 1990 with republic-wide recognition being granted on 28 May 1991. The Russia Novosibirsk Mission was formed July 1994 so it is almost 17 years old. It is a fairly young mission and it is exciting to work with members that are very strong in spirit and small in numbers.
Thank you for your son. We will take good care of him.
Attached are pictures of him and President and Sister Trejo.
Sister McCauley
Russia Novosibirsk Mission Secretary
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Flag this messageIt's Official I'm in Russia!!!Wednesday, June 22, 2011 3:56 AM
From: "Alex Bennett"View contact detailsTo: "vicki bennett" The last couple days have been amazing! We're all here and everything worked out great! It really shows you that the Lord helps out His missionaries get to where they need to be. :) Sorry I didn't get to call in Moscow, they did not have any pay phones in the airport. I feel terrible that I didn't get to talk to Shelly, Tim, or Jared. I really wanted to hear from them, but things were really rushed and we had a lot to do. Russia is beautiful! I've been taking a few pictures so i'll send you the SD card when I'm able to. We arrived in Novosibirsk at about 5:30 (their time) and we were met by the other elders and President Trejo. We are currently at the mission home with President and sister Trejo. They fed us breakfast and then we got to sleep till 3:00. The beds here are soooo comfortable! We just got done with eating dinner and now we are going to have some training and an orientation. I don't have that much time to write some stories and experiences that have happened in the last couple days, but I will write some when I get the chance. I love you all, thank you for all that you have done to help me get to this point. I'm really excited, it's crazy that I'm all the way across the world from you (don't think about it that much though) :) Thanks again, hope things are going great for everyone! -Love Elder Bennett
From: "Alex Bennett"
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
From: Alex Bennett
Subject:
To: "vicki bennett"
Date: Wednesday, June 15, 2011, 5:36 PM
Hello!!! Sorry the email is being sent a little later today. We had to go to Babylon for the last time today so Elder Krushinsky could get his stiches up and have a check up. It was pretty cool, we got to go into an Albertson's today. The other Elders in the shuttle were from Samoa, Tonga, etc. and they didn't speak the best english so they asked if we could go help them fill out a "money gram" in the service desk part of the store and talk to the employee so they could get the money they needed. Oh and about that entrance picture.... i don't know if they even have it any more, i'm pretty sure they took that sign down. We were going to the temple one time and we saw where the sign you're talking about could have been, there were white marks on the brick. So sorry i'm not able to get that one but i will take one by the map. I will send an SD card with more pictures on it, we'll take a lot when we have a little time these next couple days. It's just been soooooo busyyyyy!!!! We have to have a "test run" of total luggage weight thing done by tomorrow, so we've been frantically trying to pack when we have the time. Thanks for sending the money, now I don't have to go to an ATM :) So apparently President Peterson is not going to be our new mission president anymore, Elder Hoggan (he is related to him) got an email today from his family saying that it was changed. I believe it will be President Gibbons instead.
Flight plans: We will be leaving here at 5:00 am to head to the airport and our flight leaves at 8:30 am. We arrive at Atlanta at 2:20, then leave there at 3:20. We fly from Atlanta to Moscow and should arrive at 10:10 am. Leave Moscow at 10:50 pm (long lay-over) and arrive in Novosibirsk 5:30 am June 22. So to give you a time range of when i would be calling... from about 6:30 to 8:00 in the morning on the 20th. If i'm able to, i'll also call from Moscow during the lay-over time. It would be great if you could send me a list of phone numbers so i can call Shelly, Tim, and Jared as well.
Thanks for the pictures, the baby is adorable. Also thanks for getting Derek's address. I'm way excited to hear where Tanner is going, I just can't believe that we are all this old! It'll it great to head to head out to Russia, but it will be soooo weird! We've been here at the MTC for 10 weeks now, I can't believe it! Time really just goes by so fast. I'm just so grateful to be able to serve and have this great opportunity to learn and grow. It was sad knowing that today was the last time to go to the temple for 2 years, I'm going to miss it. I'll be sending a few things home here in the next couple days so just be prepared for that. I love you all, it will be great to be able to talk to you. It'll be much easier to let you know how things are over the phone. Well Da svidanya for now, Love Elder Bennett :)
Subject:
To: "vicki bennett"
Date: Wednesday, June 15, 2011, 5:36 PM
Hello!!! Sorry the email is being sent a little later today. We had to go to Babylon for the last time today so Elder Krushinsky could get his stiches up and have a check up. It was pretty cool, we got to go into an Albertson's today. The other Elders in the shuttle were from Samoa, Tonga, etc. and they didn't speak the best english so they asked if we could go help them fill out a "money gram" in the service desk part of the store and talk to the employee so they could get the money they needed. Oh and about that entrance picture.... i don't know if they even have it any more, i'm pretty sure they took that sign down. We were going to the temple one time and we saw where the sign you're talking about could have been, there were white marks on the brick. So sorry i'm not able to get that one but i will take one by the map. I will send an SD card with more pictures on it, we'll take a lot when we have a little time these next couple days. It's just been soooooo busyyyyy!!!! We have to have a "test run" of total luggage weight thing done by tomorrow, so we've been frantically trying to pack when we have the time. Thanks for sending the money, now I don't have to go to an ATM :) So apparently President Peterson is not going to be our new mission president anymore, Elder Hoggan (he is related to him) got an email today from his family saying that it was changed. I believe it will be President Gibbons instead.
Flight plans: We will be leaving here at 5:00 am to head to the airport and our flight leaves at 8:30 am. We arrive at Atlanta at 2:20, then leave there at 3:20. We fly from Atlanta to Moscow and should arrive at 10:10 am. Leave Moscow at 10:50 pm (long lay-over) and arrive in Novosibirsk 5:30 am June 22. So to give you a time range of when i would be calling... from about 6:30 to 8:00 in the morning on the 20th. If i'm able to, i'll also call from Moscow during the lay-over time. It would be great if you could send me a list of phone numbers so i can call Shelly, Tim, and Jared as well.
Thanks for the pictures, the baby is adorable. Also thanks for getting Derek's address. I'm way excited to hear where Tanner is going, I just can't believe that we are all this old! It'll it great to head to head out to Russia, but it will be soooo weird! We've been here at the MTC for 10 weeks now, I can't believe it! Time really just goes by so fast. I'm just so grateful to be able to serve and have this great opportunity to learn and grow. It was sad knowing that today was the last time to go to the temple for 2 years, I'm going to miss it. I'll be sending a few things home here in the next couple days so just be prepared for that. I love you all, it will be great to be able to talk to you. It'll be much easier to let you know how things are over the phone. Well Da svidanya for now, Love Elder Bennett :)
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Family,
How is everyone? Is it unbearably hot down in St. G? So much is happening there! Tim & Lindsey have a new baby, Jared and Krista are leaving, It's summer vacation for Mike, etc. It's crazy that we get our flight plans tomorrow! We've been here at the MTC FOREVER, but it seems like it's gone by really fast now that I look back. It's good that this shark movie came out while I was gone because I wouldn't have gone to see it, Uggghhhh, I'd let the shark finish me off, I wouldn't go back in the water! I might be sending stuff home like you mentioned, but I think I'll be pretty good on weight, we'll see. No, I did not get to see my comp's ganglion cyst surgery, I waited with his mom in the waiting room thing. I brought a KHURA MOPMOTLA and things to study with while I waited, but I talked to his mom quite a bit as well. Going to Babylon canbe exciting, but it loses it's touch. It will be much better to be able to see a little bit of the world and not be cooped up. We just went to the front desk, got on the shuttle, got out of the shuttle, went in the Utah Valley surgery place, got back on the shuttle, arrived at the MTC. Not as "fun" as we thought it would be, but it was nice to see "Wendy's" and other stores and stuff. I'll send my badges as soon as I can, I'm not making any promises, but I think I can send it on like next Saturday, but I'm not sure. Are you able to put pictures on my blog? Let Mary know that I'm grateful for the Reeses cookie things she sent, the other Elders think they are really good too. Have you found out Derek's mailing address yet? Anywho, I'll let you know how things are going in more detail when I call you in 12 days! I'll be great to hear from you. Let everyone know I apologize for not being able to keep up on letters. I love all of you soooooo much!
How is everyone? Is it unbearably hot down in St. G? So much is happening there! Tim & Lindsey have a new baby, Jared and Krista are leaving, It's summer vacation for Mike, etc. It's crazy that we get our flight plans tomorrow! We've been here at the MTC FOREVER, but it seems like it's gone by really fast now that I look back. It's good that this shark movie came out while I was gone because I wouldn't have gone to see it, Uggghhhh, I'd let the shark finish me off, I wouldn't go back in the water! I might be sending stuff home like you mentioned, but I think I'll be pretty good on weight, we'll see. No, I did not get to see my comp's ganglion cyst surgery, I waited with his mom in the waiting room thing. I brought a KHURA MOPMOTLA and things to study with while I waited, but I talked to his mom quite a bit as well. Going to Babylon canbe exciting, but it loses it's touch. It will be much better to be able to see a little bit of the world and not be cooped up. We just went to the front desk, got on the shuttle, got out of the shuttle, went in the Utah Valley surgery place, got back on the shuttle, arrived at the MTC. Not as "fun" as we thought it would be, but it was nice to see "Wendy's" and other stores and stuff. I'll send my badges as soon as I can, I'm not making any promises, but I think I can send it on like next Saturday, but I'm not sure. Are you able to put pictures on my blog? Let Mary know that I'm grateful for the Reeses cookie things she sent, the other Elders think they are really good too. Have you found out Derek's mailing address yet? Anywho, I'll let you know how things are going in more detail when I call you in 12 days! I'll be great to hear from you. Let everyone know I apologize for not being able to keep up on letters. I love all of you soooooo much!
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Wednesday, June 8th 2011 11:25 am
Flight Plans this Week!
Thanks for the picture of the baby, she's really cute, let Tim and Lindsey know that I'm proud of them. I'd like to start off by saying it is unbelievable that we leave in 12 days!!! I also can't believe that it's summer time right now, you look at summer WAYYYY differently when you're in the MTC. Let Clair and Jake know that I sometimes miss moving pipe, believe it or not :) Thank you for the Reeses and mints, it's always great to get a package. Oh, I started using the Gillette Pro-glide just recently, because the electric wasn't cutting as close, and its been fantastic. I'm glad I brought it with me, it has this swivel blade and just throws out a good shave. Well you probably don't care about that as much as everything else going on here though. Elder Krushinsky's surgery went really well, he's healing right up. We woke up at 5:00 Friday morning to get ready and then go meet our driver. He took us to the Utah Valley surgery place where we got checked in and everything, and then Elder Krushinsky's mom came. He said it was really weird to see his mom, but he was happy to see her. I don't know if I could handle that, calling you all is one thing, but if I saw anybody in person, it would be really hard to not freak out. It was about 12:20 in the afternoon when we left because it took awhile for him to wake up from the anesthesia and get back to normal. But things are going great and he has a final checkup on the 15th before we before we leave to remove the stitches and take of the wrapping. My teacher said he saw Kung Fu Panda 2 and loved it. Have any of you seen it? I'm sure that the kids would love to see that one. So I was just curious, does Dixie offer any Russian classes? I just want to keep up with the language when I get home. Tell Tanner Congratulations on becoming an Elder. That's cool to hear that you take cooking classes, what type of foods do you cook? What's Mike doing? Tell him he can't sit and play Call of Duty all day. Tell him to start reading the Preach My Gospel Manual :) Well to sum things up, things are going really great here at the MTC, we're just sort of in "Limbo" right now waiting for our flight plans and information. It's really exciting!!! Well I've only got 40 sec left. I love you all!!!! Thanks for all the support and help!! Elder Bennett
Flight Plans this Week!
Thanks for the picture of the baby, she's really cute, let Tim and Lindsey know that I'm proud of them. I'd like to start off by saying it is unbelievable that we leave in 12 days!!! I also can't believe that it's summer time right now, you look at summer WAYYYY differently when you're in the MTC. Let Clair and Jake know that I sometimes miss moving pipe, believe it or not :) Thank you for the Reeses and mints, it's always great to get a package. Oh, I started using the Gillette Pro-glide just recently, because the electric wasn't cutting as close, and its been fantastic. I'm glad I brought it with me, it has this swivel blade and just throws out a good shave. Well you probably don't care about that as much as everything else going on here though. Elder Krushinsky's surgery went really well, he's healing right up. We woke up at 5:00 Friday morning to get ready and then go meet our driver. He took us to the Utah Valley surgery place where we got checked in and everything, and then Elder Krushinsky's mom came. He said it was really weird to see his mom, but he was happy to see her. I don't know if I could handle that, calling you all is one thing, but if I saw anybody in person, it would be really hard to not freak out. It was about 12:20 in the afternoon when we left because it took awhile for him to wake up from the anesthesia and get back to normal. But things are going great and he has a final checkup on the 15th before we before we leave to remove the stitches and take of the wrapping. My teacher said he saw Kung Fu Panda 2 and loved it. Have any of you seen it? I'm sure that the kids would love to see that one. So I was just curious, does Dixie offer any Russian classes? I just want to keep up with the language when I get home. Tell Tanner Congratulations on becoming an Elder. That's cool to hear that you take cooking classes, what type of foods do you cook? What's Mike doing? Tell him he can't sit and play Call of Duty all day. Tell him to start reading the Preach My Gospel Manual :) Well to sum things up, things are going really great here at the MTC, we're just sort of in "Limbo" right now waiting for our flight plans and information. It's really exciting!!! Well I've only got 40 sec left. I love you all!!!! Thanks for all the support and help!! Elder Bennett
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Wednesday June 1, 2011 12:15 p.m
Hello everyone!!!!
So I was wondering, did you get the SD card and the letter that I sent? That's sad to hear about Jared and Krista having to say goodbye to everyone. There is an Elder in my district that has lived in Tennessee and he loved it!!! I asked him if he could send a short letter to them about what he liked about living there, so we'll see if he does that. We celebrated Memorial day with pop-rocks and creme soda, it was quite the event. Sister Kuznetsova went to Southern Utah this last weekend, she was going to see if she could stop by and see some of our families, but I guess she can't at this point in time because we're still in the MTC. We gave her our addresses, so maybe she'll call or stop by one day. Oh yeah, Elder Krushinksy has had some wrist pain lately so we went to check up on it at the clinic. They said that he had a "ganglion cyst" and that it wouldn't be a bad idea to have it removed so that when he's in Russia his hand doesn't hurt really bad when he's shaking hands all day. So, in two hours Elder Krushinksy and I are going to "Babylon" so he can have surgery to get it removed. We think it won't be too serious and that it will be a quick operation, but it's always nice to see what the world looks like, after all, we spend like 1000000 hours in classroom a week :). Let both Justin's (T.and H.) know that I am very grateful for their letters, it's been really nice to hear from them. Also, tell all the Newton crew that I would like to hear from them!!! It's crazy to think that they are on summer break right now. The Novosibirsk bound missionaries all received a letter today from President Trejo telling us about luggage and airport security information, things needed and things to remember, precautions, etc. Things are getting pretty serious!!! We will be in Russia in less than three weeks! We all got our Russian name tags yesterday which was exciting, the bad part is that we can't wear them until we leave though :( When we got Elder Krushinsky's wrist checked out, I heard that Alabama and Mississippi have been rocked by some pretty bad tornado's and that a SWAT team shot a marine who pulled a gun on them or something like that. If you have any world news, we'd love to hear what's going on. Thanks for the letters and the support, sorry the message isn't the longest. It'll be nice when we have a little longer time for email in Novosibirsk. Well, we better get going so we can go eat and get to the shuttle on time. Thanks for everything, I love you all!!! Tell Lindsey and Tim congratulations, I'd like some pictures :) I'm looking forward to be able to call in a couple weeks and hear from everyone. Da Svi Daniya! Love Elder Bennett p.s. Yes , I got the pringles and candy you sent, don't be afraid to send more Reeses :)
Hello everyone!!!!
So I was wondering, did you get the SD card and the letter that I sent? That's sad to hear about Jared and Krista having to say goodbye to everyone. There is an Elder in my district that has lived in Tennessee and he loved it!!! I asked him if he could send a short letter to them about what he liked about living there, so we'll see if he does that. We celebrated Memorial day with pop-rocks and creme soda, it was quite the event. Sister Kuznetsova went to Southern Utah this last weekend, she was going to see if she could stop by and see some of our families, but I guess she can't at this point in time because we're still in the MTC. We gave her our addresses, so maybe she'll call or stop by one day. Oh yeah, Elder Krushinksy has had some wrist pain lately so we went to check up on it at the clinic. They said that he had a "ganglion cyst" and that it wouldn't be a bad idea to have it removed so that when he's in Russia his hand doesn't hurt really bad when he's shaking hands all day. So, in two hours Elder Krushinksy and I are going to "Babylon" so he can have surgery to get it removed. We think it won't be too serious and that it will be a quick operation, but it's always nice to see what the world looks like, after all, we spend like 1000000 hours in classroom a week :). Let both Justin's (T.and H.) know that I am very grateful for their letters, it's been really nice to hear from them. Also, tell all the Newton crew that I would like to hear from them!!! It's crazy to think that they are on summer break right now. The Novosibirsk bound missionaries all received a letter today from President Trejo telling us about luggage and airport security information, things needed and things to remember, precautions, etc. Things are getting pretty serious!!! We will be in Russia in less than three weeks! We all got our Russian name tags yesterday which was exciting, the bad part is that we can't wear them until we leave though :( When we got Elder Krushinsky's wrist checked out, I heard that Alabama and Mississippi have been rocked by some pretty bad tornado's and that a SWAT team shot a marine who pulled a gun on them or something like that. If you have any world news, we'd love to hear what's going on. Thanks for the letters and the support, sorry the message isn't the longest. It'll be nice when we have a little longer time for email in Novosibirsk. Well, we better get going so we can go eat and get to the shuttle on time. Thanks for everything, I love you all!!! Tell Lindsey and Tim congratulations, I'd like some pictures :) I'm looking forward to be able to call in a couple weeks and hear from everyone. Da Svi Daniya! Love Elder Bennett p.s. Yes , I got the pringles and candy you sent, don't be afraid to send more Reeses :)
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