ha ha I am sure Alex is not too upset about it, thats a mission for ya, you never quite know what is going to happen, which brings me to my topic for the email today...

   Okay mom you always taught me to be honest so I am going to be completely honest in my letter. Lets start from day one, On monday night I was talking to hermana pineda and we were like, “wow, I think we have changes this week, that really snuck up on us, fastest change of all time”, President had told us that we were going to be together until Her Pineda finishes in June and we were absolutely stoked about it because we have both never been happier here in the mission. 

    So on to Tuesday. Hermana Pineda and I bought a cake for the zone. While the zone leaders were reading off the names of who was leaving we were cutting and passing out cake, hardly paying any attention because we were dead sure that we did not have changes. Then we heard him say hermana Pinedas name. She started to hug me and cry because we are literally best friends, I absolutely adore her and I loved every single day with her for the past 6 weeks, we just click. Then, the last name he read, Hermana Outsen.. THEY CLOSED MY AREA. I was so miffed. I cried so hard. I love Coatepeque, I felt like I belonged there. I had the perfect companion, the perfect area, the perfect zone, the perfect house, the perfect elders to share the area and the ward with, the perfect ward and we had 3 amazing investigators who I adore with bap. dates for the 12th. Everything was perfect, and it was all taken away so fast, I felt like Job except he handled it a lot better than I did. So at the zone meeting everyone was so shocked and I was so devastated. Everyone was telling me as long as you don’t go to San Filipe everything will be okay. You will love whatever area, just don’t go to San Filipe. 

    Wednesday comes and I get to the change meeting, I wasn't even excited to see all my friends in the mission, the only person I wanted to talk to was hermana Pineda. The meeting starts and the first name that shows up, hermana Outsen in San Filipe.   So I get to my new area and meet my new companion, she is from Honuras and I am terrified of her.  The first thing she says to me is, I hate english, You are not allowed to speak in english to any gringos in the zone or the hermana who lives with us. it makes me mad and I do not work when I am mad. The very next day we had a zone meeting, I totally forgot and talked to Elder Jolley in English, I have been with elder Jolley my whole mission and I just shared a ward with him in coatepeque and we got along so well, so it was just natural. well then she got really mad. Longest day ever... So that night I called her old comp who is like the worlds most perfect human, everyone loves her. She told me 3 things, always let her have her way, tell her she is pretty every morning, and she loves little cards and notes. So on saturday she had an asthma attack or something so the ap’s picked her up and took her away for like an hour. I stayed in the house with the hermanas I live with. Now I suck at crafts and I also suck at writing nice things, but I did it anyway. I put it on her bed and when she got home she absolutely loved it and she has been so nice to me ever since, so so nice. She now always calls me mi companera canchita chula and hugs me like every 10 seconds. 

   I love you to the moon and back and although I am home sick for coatepeque I made a goal at the first of my mission to become best friends with every companion, and I don’t plan on breaking the streak now. Hermana Pacheco is a little rough around the edges but hey aren't we all. and I am also glad conference was this weekend because pres uchtdorfs talk really whipped me into shape, just what I needed to hear,  and president monson's, his too. 

    

hermana canchita