Elder Alex Bennett's Mission Blog

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 :)