This week has been a pretty bad week. I don't even know how to explain it. I'm a little sick right now, so that doesn't help, but everyday ends with a feeling of just being a dumb day, not necessarily wasted, just dumb.
First things first. Mom, thanks for doing my taxes. I appreciate that. It will be nice to have that in there in case I need to get something. My cd player broke, so it looks like I may need to get a new one. If my next companion has one then maybe I can hold out, but as it is I feel like I am going to go insane without it. The only problem is that everything here is more expensive than I would ever pay at home. It makes it discouraging because I don't want to buy anything then. I
don't know how long I can hold out without music.
It looks like we will be seeing General Conference a lot sooner than last time, in two weeks or so. Last time was more like a month. I hope Sara is feeling better. I haven't heard from her or Lizzy in a really long time. I hope that means that they've been sending letters. Really, I don't understand how they can have less time than I do. That tells me that it just isn't important enough to them to write me because if it was important, they would set aside time to write. Yeah, I probaly do want Chronicles of Narnia. Thanks mom. As for the box, if you haven't sent it off yet, I thought I should tell you. I mis-estimated and I only need 250 more sheets of paper. I forget that I had another package of 150 from last time, so that's not even that soon going to
run out, but since you are sending the puzzle, it would be good to send that off, too. (Above - While we were feeling sick, our DL, Elder Simmons, brought us some treats. He and his companion Elder Schenk, made brownies and brought us a Russian wafer cake. At the same time, he returned my companion's scarf) I want to get a package sent off. I have something for you for birthday/mother's day and something for dad for father's day/birthday, but then I also want to send a bunch of stuff that I just don't need. One of the Elders is sending a package today so he said he would let me know how much it costs, then hopefully I can get that sent off. Unfortunately, most of what is inside will just be my stuff, but I want to send all my film and you can look at those if you want to. It won't be very easy to see, but that way if you wanted to print something off, you could, and I won't have to carry them around Russia with me. Other than that I will probably be sending my completed journal pages and some material that I don't need here. I especially have to be careful because they told me that when I leave I won't have nearly as much weight as when I came, so that kind of sucks.
Anyway, dad, hopefully they won't find big bugs. I always hated correcting bugs. That's good to know about Bismarck then. I still don't know exactly, but we are all (as in the 10 or so of us going home at the same time) hoping that it won't be the 28th like they originally said. Honestly, that would be dumb to send us home three days AFTER Christmas. We will see what happens.
I really don't feel like writing much today. My head hurts, it looks like I have a sinus cold (but at least the Sudafed I have helps, though now I am almost out), and I've been sleeping a lot lately, so that doesn't make me feel good. I know that sounds weird, because it should make me feel better to sleep, but then I feel like I am wasting time and I end up feeling down, even though they say they want us to be healthy. Also, I am basically counting the days to transfers. I
really need to get out of Тольятти (Togliatti). I don't care where I go, I just can't be here much longer. Plus, I really think they might close Тольятти for sisters. Then maybe the members will learn to appreciate what they had while they had it.
Anyway, enough of that.

Love,
Сестра Атвуд