Well I am officially serving in the quintessential Texas town of Uvalde and loving it! I now am a truck driving missionary surrounded by old thrift stores and cowboy hats, heat and porches, spanish language and sunburns. What a transition this week has been! Saying goodbye to everyone in McNeil is always sad but they are so very wonderful! The trip down to Uvalde was so much fun.. going the wrong way for a bit with another sister trying to get to San Antonio and then having my own little learning lesson from one of the smartest sweetest elders out here. There is so much going on down here it is so wonderful! We are teaching multiple wonderful people and there is a baptism tonight of a man who just married one of the members in the ward and has come to have a great testimony of the gospel. He was the first person I met here in town and I knew I would love everyone here after that, there is something endearing about the southern hospitality and the use of ma'm! Everyone else has been just so very sweet and welcoming! It is getting pretty toasty here, never sweat so much in my life but that is what makes it an adventure right? I also have been able to kill three cockroaches already with only a medium amount of screaming and running, i'm learning! :)The ward is little which is a huge transition! There were 10 of us in relief society yesterday including the presidency! I appreciate so much more the faith and diligence the members here having balancing so many major callings in the ward and doing it with a smile! We met with one man of the ward last night and he is the only member in his family, and though his wife is pretty against the church he still carries on and as he bore his testimony of his conversion it was just so powerful the spirit and the faith that he has! I love that, I love that about this work to see people just get it and feel it and smile because of it! This transfer is going to be an awesome one and i'm hoping to pick up some spanish along the way! Hope all is going well where y'all are at and keep smilin!
with love,
sister camarella
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