Still in Cadiz!

Hello to all!

First off, conference here is a rebroadcast to the stake center a week after the actual thing, so it's still this next Saturday and Sunday for us here in the Philippines. I'm way excited for it. We are lucky too, the simbahan (church) in Cadiz is the stake center for Cadiz, Victorias and Fabrica. We don't need to catch a bus to see conference!

I could talk a lot about how Easter goes here, but there's not enough time. Simply put, all the other churches go crazy. It starts on Thursday and goes to Sunday (called Holy Week). Some people dress up and there are some that carry around crosses for a day. There are some extremists that actually crucify themselves, didn't see that last one, thank goodness. Most people have the days off for the celebration, so many members will go on vacation since they don't participate in Holy Week. Then Sunday is a normal fast and testimony meeting.

Okay, so as I have already suggested, I am still in Cadiz! I love it there. My new companion is Elder Lecheminant. He's from Orem. He's awesome, just really cool. Fun to talk to, good at the language and teaching. He spent the last 11 months over on Panay, now he's back on Negros. Oh, so update on the mission split, this is how they are gonna decide, whichever island you are on when the split happens, you stay there, that's your mission. I want to experience Panay, but I want to stay in the Bacolod Mission.
So our week was alright. We were punted a lot this week. The fact that it was Holy Week had a lot to do with that. We also lost an investigator. He's moving to Manilla because he's getting a job, which is a good thing. I hope he tries to find the missionaries there. Things are going well and we should have a lot of lessons this week.