Dear Mother,

Well how about I start off by saying I am 100% positive that I have the best mission on the planet. I know I say this all the time but I seriously love Guatemala so so so much. Every single thing that happens here is so ridiculously awesome and it is seriously such an adventure. I wish I had the words the describe how much I love this country but I honestly cant find the words. Guatemala is the best place on earth! I have so many wonderful things to tell you about this wonderful place but I cant fit it in this letter and I dont even know how to say it, you just have to see it. Just so you know, it is absolutely gorgeous everywhere you are, everything is an adventure, everything and everyone is so spontaneous, and guatemalans are really all the most loving, sweetest, funniest, craziest humans on the planet. I am so blessed to get to serve here, I love this country! 

    So the assistants made a dvd for every companionship just chuck full of church videos. There are tons of them so this week we just carried around our mini dvd player and the disk and showed the videos to our investigators and menos activos which is so perfect because guatemalans love cheesy videos so they just eat it up. So we were in a lesson and picked a random video. So we were watching it and I thought it looked familiar but all the videos are relatively familiar so I didnt take much thought to it. All of a sudden Alex popped up on the screen! (remember that video that alex is in?) So I start freaking out, jumping up and down with pure excitement, once I calmed down I started to tear up because I missed him then when I got home I sat on my bed and watched that one 4 second scene over and over again at least 70 times, how unhealthy is that! I am glad I don’t have any videos of you, that would be enough to just kill me. 

    So there is my baggy story for the day. So in Reu there are just tuks tuks everywhere you like so thats just how you travel, but here and coatepeque, they are none. The transportation method here is by pickup. We have a recent convert that cant walk so they bishop lends us his pick up and some guy in our ward picks him up then while we are there we stop by all of our investigators houses and we all pile in the back of a pick up and go to church, its awesome. Oh and today, we fit 25 missionaries in one pickup. TWENTY FOUR! I was standing up on the ledge hanging on the window. We had some trouble finding a bus back from our pday activity today...its a good thing the truck drivers here are friendly. 

   Today was so fun! As a zone we went to the Mayan ruins! It was so stinkin cool!! I loved it! I love my new zone, they are so much fun! and it was so interesting and cool and pretty, I was in heaven. They we all rode 30 minutes stuffed in a pickup till we finally came across a bus and stuffed all of us in the bus that was already full so I was literally sitting on top of some random guatemalan guy but it was cool because I got a free guitar lesson out of it. 

    Okay well I am sorry that this makes zero sense... but I am on a I love guatemalan high right now and can hardly function. but I am glad you had fun in Vegas! looks like the concert was pretty crazy! and thanks for the Cal updates, I love those! and I get Caitlins letters so I was aware of the whole ukraine going crazy thing, that is so scary! keep me as updated as you can and be sure to pray for Cait! I love you so much mom! to the moon back time a million! someday I am taking you to guatemala with me to visit!

Love,

hermana Maren Marie Outsen

Oh and ps.I am sorry I am writing so late, the ruins set us back a few hours. count on earlier next week!