Transferred!

Hello from Negros Oriental!!! I transferred on Wednesday! I am now in a place called Guihulngan branch (pronounced ge-hul-gan) in the Canlaon district in the San Carlos Zone. If you look at where I am, I am no longer speaking Ilonggo. I am now in a Cebuano area! It is really different but good. I am now the senior companion and we whitewashed the area because one missionary finished his mission and the other was transferred! It is a very exciting time. We are seeing a lot of changes right now. I have to readjust my language now. It will be alright because part of it is the same so it won't be as hard of a change. I just hope it comes a lot quicker then Ilonggo did. Guihulngan is a branch because San Carlos is a district. I hear that it is getting close to becoming a stake. We have a high enough attendance to be a ward so we are waiting for the district to become a stake.

My new companion's name is Elder Ponseca. He is by far my tallest companion. Before my tallest companion was 5'4" but he is 6'. It makes things a little bit different because we attract a lot more attention when we walk the streets because we are both very tall. We are trying right now to figure out the area. Elder Ponseca knows the area a little bit because he has had exchanges in this area a few times so it helps us a lot. We are trying to find the investigators. It is a little bit hard but we get a lot of help from our branch missionaries. It is a working progress to whitewash an area. One thing I have had to get use to is bucket showers. In Manapla they have a shower but here we have a bucket. It is alright. It doesn't take long.

We have visited a lot of members these past few days trying to find out about the area. We are hoping to start getting to the investigators more this week. Our area is rather big so we are taking it one small area at a time.

As far as weather, it was starting to get very rainy in Manapla but here the mountains brake up most of the storms (I forgot to mention our area is very mountainous and we can see Cebu from our area). It hasn't rained yet here but we thought it would a couple of times.

In order to get to our area from Bacolod we had to go through a canyon. It was very pretty. I took some pictures which I will try to send next week. It had a ton of turns and it was very small. We went through it in a bus. It was probably worse then going through Ogden canyon. The road was about the same size but we were doing it with buses. It was fun especially when two buses passed each other. Then the buses were stopping to drop people off during the travel. It was very fun.

Well I will be able to tell you more about the area next week. I don't know it very well. Maybe next week.

I love you all,

Elder Nielsen

Me and my companion