Your package came this week for Easter!  I shared alot of the candy with people here and they thought it was so funny. especially the peeps. The Mongolians were freaking out haha. but then me and my comp ate all the cadbury eggs in one sitting...which is way bad haha but we had fasted the whole day and couldn't stop eating them after! haha don't worry we ate real food first :) 

few random questions-  do we we have greenfield tea in America?  Don't worry, the herbal kind :)  and do you have gingerbread Twix bars?  

Yesterday was fast and testimony meeting.  Fasting Works.  Me and my companion fasted for our 3 main investigators, Tamara, Larissa and Olga in order to help them receive answers to their prayers and for us to know how to help them prepare to be baptized and for our new idea of how to help members do missionary work. (i also prayed separately that i could be nice and happy while fasting because you know i am bad at that, i need my food)  and guess what?!  Heavenly Father helped us out with all of it! Larissa's husband told us (she was at work) that she got an answer and said "I have decided i want to pay tithing and i am ready to be baptized"!!! Woooohooooooooo!!! i am so excited. This woman is incredible. She is so sweet and so sincere and just wants to do whats right. She loves the scriptures and the Lord. I think we could just be friends for ever and always. Maybe we were friends before.  Who knows?  and Tamara said to me "I'm going to get baptized before you leave.  I know i can do it! and i want to while you are here because you have done so much to help me".  She is so sweet and great! and Olga said that she had an answer that she knows our church is inspired of God. She says she isn't ready to be baptized yet, but she will be baptized she says.  And as with the members a whole bunch came up and asked us to meet with them this week!.  :)  Now as with my personal thing, fasting was a lot easier.  It probably helps that i learned how to pray correctly, thanks to the article in the ensign by Elder Bednar.  We need to pray for the enabling power and the capacity and strength to do what we need to do, not just to pray that it will go away or be easy, but that we can grow stronger.  Who knew i was praying wrong my whole life?  

we went to Larissa house and met with her and her husband and when we knocked he asked "who is it?" and i said "si-yos-tri"  (the sisters)  and he said

"zv-yoz-di"  (stars) ? haha he thought that i said that the stars were here! haha he thinks that is really funny and now he calls us his stars, "Larissa, we are so lucky that our little stars came today". He even bore his testimony and called us stars.  

Little Kiril bore his testimony. he is 9 and was recently baptized. His family and cousins all live together and we have been working with them to get them active. last FHE we talked about service and doing good works and made them a poster to write on the good works that they did this week.  he got up and told everyone that and said "So the next morning we all woke up and specifically (?) or "on purpose"? ( i don't know in English) - started doing good works and i thought "what can i do"". haha it was so cute.  

It rained alot this week.  but it was nice. i of course love the rain.  We also stated running every morning. its great great great!  There is a small track near our house next to a school and we go there. There are a few babushki who run too its great fun.

you know what is good here?  is Meat pie. I know, sound gross and before my mission when i heard about that kinda stuff i was grossed out. but it just means some kind of dough and meat cooked on it or in it. its really good.  i like Russian food. Maybe i will open up a Russian bakery or something. 

Don't worry, i have a list of all the things that i want to do and accomplish and try when i get home. I don't want to waste a minute!  you know i realized here how much you can accomplish in one day. and I'm not saying that its bad to relax and watch a few good films, just saying that if we plan we could do alot more. and if your plan is to watch a movie, color in a coloring book and lay on your bed listening to country music, fine haha that's a great plan!   just plan and try new things. 

what else do i have to say? i don't know....not much.  except our new thing is to talk to all the conductors on the trolley buses. we are pretty much friends with all of them.  Except the ones that don't like us.  now they ignore us....but the majority we are great friends!  we have started taking trolley buses because they are less expensive, cleaner and quieter so we can talk better to people. 

didn't hear anything about where i am going to live this fall this week? haha does that mean the stress is over and we bought an apartment and everything?  that would be nice. :)

Well- i think that's about all that i have.  I love you all so much.  I'm thankful for all that i have and the opportunity to serve the Lord everyday. I hope I am living up to what the Lord expects of me and that I am the type of missionary you all think i am haha.  Everyday i try to live up to that, you all write that you know that i am the best missionary ever. haha that's a lot to live up to but i am trying to do my best just to serve and to love. 

Hope all is going well there.  Say Hi to Jake and Audrey for me.  

Love Sister Trottier

See you on Monday over the Internet!

PS- Sami- whats a tablet?