Knew it was coming...Elder Phelps is transferring!

Good to hear from you, even if it was a crap week. Our week was looking to be pretty bad, but it turned out just fine. I'll explain that later.

Well, there have been things I've been meaning to tell you for months now, but I forget every Monday. So it started quite a while ago, but I eat fish now, and rather frequently, and with my hands! But we eat lots of things with our hands.  Basically if you don't want to use flatware you dont have too. I love this country! Also last week we were walking home one night and I looked up at the moon and there was a rainbow in the moonlight. It was sooo cool! It was small, but very distinct. I also think its time that I tossed in my two pisos about rain since Elder and Sister Ferrin both have. Rain here is different than any rain I have ever experienced. It gets really hot and humid when it rains, it is rarely a relief from the heat. Everything gets wet if you are outside, no avoiding it. And it is really hard to do laundry during the rainy season. We wash by hand outside and then hang our clothes up to dry, and with the rain coming pretty much everyday now it is really hard to get your clothes dry. But we also love the rain somedays. We like it when it rains at night, then its cool when we sleep. but during the day its still stupid hot.

This last week Elder Ventigan and Elder Luthi had training in Bacolod Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. So Elder Hinckley and I were together for those three days. Things went pretty well too. It was way nice to have an American companion. You can talk about different things with Americans than with Filipinos. It was refreshing. We have extended baptismal dates to quite a few of our investigators and some for sure will be baptized, at least close to the date, but there is a downside too, but we'll get to that later.

So, this is what we have all been waiting for. Today was transfer announcements and Friday will be transfer day. And the results are....... Elder Phelps is transferring! Elder Ventigan is staying and training! So we have to wait until next week to find out where I will be assigned. I'm sad to be leaving Cadiz after 6 months here. I have a lot of close friends here. Lots of people to visit before I leave, members and investigators. I'll make new friends in my new area. I just need to stop myself from crying at family home evening with the Ceniza family later today. good luck with that!
Elder Phelps