Hello everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful week and are hopefully enjoying the sunny summer weather wherever you are!
I only have a few minutes to write today because I got a call from our mission president a few days ago and he told me that I was getting transfered mid transfer! It was super unexpected and I am so so sad to be leaving Odessa because it's all I've known for these first 4.5 months of my mission and its the BEST area but I'm excited to see what this crazy transfer brings. I'll be serving in Kharkov, which is up in northern Ukraine and since it's last minute I'll be taking a plane this morning to Kiev, then a 7 hour layover and then I'm off to Kharkov. It'll be fun.
Real real sweet and condensed version of this week:
-We got lost on the way to do service for a sister in center Odessa and we ended up getting invited into a random couples home for juice and candy and we gave them a Book of Mormon and it was awesome!
-We also met with our branch president's family and had an amazing dinner and talked about the liahona and what liahona's there are in our lives. They are the best family ever. I will miss them so much!
-On saturday morning we played soccer together in the morning for the last time (I'm going to miss that sooo much) and we ended up having like 10 people playing because our friends that we've met on the field these past weeks wanted to play with us, and some of the youth came from our branch as well and it was a blast. One of the people that played with us, Obi, even came to church yesterday!
-This week we also met with Zeena and I had to say goodbye to her and whew that was hard. I will miss her a lot and it's hard to be leaving her when she's kind of stuck in a rutt like she is. But I'll see her again.
-We also were finally able to meet with Alina and it was a great meeting. We just walked and talked altogether and she really hit it off with Sister Butler and Sister Hatch and that was really good to see. She wants to meet with them this week so fingers crossed! She is doing well, she's super busy with her classes in college but she's doing great. We also ran into her the next day as we were walking to the branch building so that was awesome! My mission has convinced me that there really isn't such things as coincidences.
-On Saturday night we went to one of the youth in the center branch's mission call opening and I guessed Washington State bc um it's the best and she opened it and she got called to Everett Washington!!!!! Hahaha it was the best! She is so excited and after I told her about it more she started to cry she was so excited! So definitely possibly going to "accidentally" see her when I get home:)
Well everyone, that is the highlights for this week. I can't believe I'm leaving--it kind of feels like I'm leaving home! I am so sad to leave Sister Hatch and Sister Butler. We were talked about a lot in our mission as being the most functional trio to ever be a trio (bc trios with sisters can be a little hard sometimes) and it had been such a great 7 weeks with them. But I'm excited for Kharkiv and my companion is from Ukraine and everyone says she is a literal angel so it'll be great. Thank you all for your emails and love (I'm sorry I won't be able to respond until probably next week)!
С любовью,
Сестра Кропельники
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