Sister and Elder Bell, 2022 Texas Austin Mission!

  We are excited about seeing family soon, especially our grandchildren,  but we are sad to have so little time left here! The time has gone by so quickly, way too quick! The above photo is our last district photo before transfers. Of our 8 young missionaries, one went home (mission complete!) and 3 transferred. I hate when the young missionaries leave! I get so attached. 🥰 (Back row: Sister Bell, Wrucke, Becerra, Bair, Hardy and Sudweeks.  Front row: Elder Bell, Ure, Cox, Schern, Park (going home!) and Sudweeks.) The past couple of weeks have been the most busy we've been with appointments, having 15 appointments one week and close to that the next! We have a temple trip to take with the Orellanas on August 5, and Alfredo is getting baptized on August 6th. What a great way to finish up! Elder and Sister Sudweeks are going to move into our apartment. They've  been  in temporary housing thus far.  I've been training them on FamilySearch and Ancestry.  ...

  Every week we have more and more appointments!  We had a few appointments fall through this week, but we still had more appointments than ever.  We have new people to see in Cedar Creek and Del Valle and we now have a temple appointment for the Orellanos (Yay!!)  Last Saturday I taught a small church group the basics of crochet.  There were a couple of washcloths made as well as several hair scrunchies.  I was a little overwhelmed trying to teach it in Spanish, but Elder Bell helped me by making a Powerpoint presentation in Spanish.  Helped a lot.  Also helped that most of the group understood English. One of our regular appointments asked me (begged, really) to please cut her hair!  So Sherry got a haircut this week!  We love Sherry! The last puzzle we put together, Texas Bluebonnets, took us about 6 weeks! We just finished this quilt puzzle, and it only took us 3 weeks. 😃  Just a bit easier.  Really fun.  We plan on m...