hello mom! I am so sorry I didn't write yesterday! I was so worried that you would be worried or think that I didn't write you or something, I had to go to Guate so thats why I am writing today instead of yesterday. I saw Hermana Minnick yesterday and she said that she told her mom to call and tell you so I hope she did, whitney always has my back, I love her! So yesterday I got robbed of Pday, my comp had to go to the capital to sign papers for her visa so I had to go with her. We made our way to Reu sunday night and slept in a hotel with 6 elders, all of them Mexicans, I LOVE Mexicans. at 3:30 in the morning the elders from the office were pounding on our door to wake us up so we could catch the bus that would take us to the capital by 4 am. Then we drove four and a half hours to the capital, I am really glad that we went with Elders because my comp does not talk ever and also Guate is like really dangerous. So anyway. We got there and my comp went with some hermana in the south mission and I hung out with her comp. We walked around the capital and I was so totally freaked out, I was surrounded by tons of cars, busy rich people, big buildings, stop lights, grass, and there was not garbage everywhere. I honestly felt like I was in New York City. Reu is nothing like the Capital, it is like two different worlds. It was fun to spend some time there, I felt like I was on a fancy vacation. We went to their mission office and I saw Elder Monson from my ccm district! We got all caught up on all the people from our group, it was great! Then we went out to lunch, got on a bus and drove back, we got home late so we all had to sleep in the hotel in Reu again. So I am pretty much exhausted from traveling for 9 hours in a bus and not sleeping at all for 2 nights straight because Elders are obnoxious. but now I am back in nice tranquilo San Martin. 

      Oh yeah guess what!! I moved. On Wednesday we were eating lunch at the bishops house and he got a phone call from one of our neighbors telling him that someone was trying to break into our house! So we peaced out mid bite and ran home. We barged in through the front door and when he heard us he ran out the back and broke right through our big black metal partition  out back. He had hopped the fence and broken the bedroom window to get in. Luckily he didn't take anything because he didn't have enough time. So I guess he had been watching us because he knew when we went to lunch and stuff and did it during the middle of the day when all of my neighbors can see him because he knows we are home at night, or maybe he’s just really dumb I don't know. So all the neighbors called the cops and we called the zone leaders. There were about 12 cops, the four of us, the zone leaders, and just about every active member of my ward all in my tiny house. They all said it was my fault because I’m the only canche and canches have money... ha ha. So Elder Campbell (who is probably my very favorite person in the mission) said we had to move like right then and there and went house shopping. All of the pilas cool guys in our ward showed up and helped us move our fridge, beds and other big heavy things to our new house. We were all situated in our new house right before bed time. my new house is great! it is cuter, cleaner, less ghetto, and we live with a really cool member, its like a duplex house type thing. 

      So the next day we had a multi zone conference with president duncan who is the area of the 70 here in guatemala, he’s from Sandy. He gave a really awesome workshop and they gave us really yummy food, I miss good food! It really pumped me up to be better and work harder and stuff. 

   Last Sunday my golden convert Jorge got the priesthood and he is preparing himself so he can be the one to baptize  his wife and his other daughter next week. I love this family more than I can even express. I have seen all of them completely change in almost every aspect and it is such a blessing. I am so glad that the Lord is in charge of my mission and not me because if I would have had it my way I would have stayed in coatepeque and I would have never met Jorge, Blanca, Laurdes, and Maria and them, and them alone made every hard day on the mission worth it. They are incredible, seriously,  I am flying back to Guatemala in one year to see them get sealed in the Xela Temple, I already promised them! 

    Alright well my comp is good, besides the fact that she doesn't talk and is as boring as a stick. I love you to the moon and back! until next week 

xoxo

Hermana Outsen