Last week as an island girl (week 41)

Heyy everyone!! Hope you had a good mothers day weekend! I had a great week!!!


First off... TRANSFER NEWS !!
I'm leaving the islands ahhh :( I've been here since november and I absolutely love it, so I am heartbroken to leave. But the new changes are exciting!

I'm getting transferred to Everett on wednesday and going to be training again!!! I'll pick up my trainee on Saturday and obviously we both aren't gonna know the area so it's gonna be a lot of fun haha. I loved training sister cowden so I'm super excited to have the opportunity to train back to back!! It's gonna be a good transfer!


Highlights!!!

- we had a little cultural party with our friend Maria from Japan!! They dressed us up in kimonos (traditional japanese wear) and we tried some Japanese food that they made for us. It was so much fun! 🌸🇯🇵🍣

- ^^Maria also prayed by herself FOR THE FIRST TIME this week!! Soo awesome. She texted us at 2am to tell us she did it hahah waking up to that text made our day!

- not a highlight but I had lots of lasts with Sister Cowden this week :(( I'm gonna miss her a lot

- our friend wanted to take us on the military base before I left so we went and had a lesson out there. The naval air base was so cool & we had an amazing discussion with her!! ✈️

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This week I've been really anxious about leaving oak harbor. Sometimes change is hard! I have made so many good connections with people here and I love them all so so much... also I'm just terrible at goodbyes haha. But everytime I got on my knees and prayed, I felt comfort. I found Him there. He helps me so much. I'm so grateful for the peace Christ brings to me!! Pray to Him, I promise He is there and He is listening!!🤍

Love you all!! Have a good week!
- Sister Bell











































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