wow! happy birthday slash fathers day to dad!! Love him! best dad of all time! looks like it was such a fun day! tell dad I do not think he is old or fat... ha ha ha. looking at that picture of dad swinging the bat made me really miss him and made me miss Utah too! I almost forgot how beautiful the mountains are in Utah!

   Oh about that question, its funny that you mention that... So we had interviews with president this week, let me tell you how my interview went. So I walk in and he started asking me about the conference with president Dunkan who is the area president of the 70 (or whatever you call it) here in Guatemala. So I told him what I learned, liked, etc etc. Then he starts telling me about a little meeting he had with president Dunkan. He said that they really want missionaries to go home with a plan in mind, He told me how important it is to get right back into school or go straight to working, he said they don't want any missionaries going home and sitting around. So he was like Hermana Outsen,I know you are planning on going back to school, and I was like yeah, and then he lectured me about how I need to start planning now and stuff like that and I was like yeah Pres I know. If you go home in January you will miss school by 3 weeks, and I was like yes yes I know. So he said we are not going to send you home one change early, we are going to send you home one month early, in the middle of the change and that will put you home about one week before school starts. I said okay thats fine. So he pulled up my mission profile and clicked on a little calendar. He explained that all the days in black were the days that I could travel and all the days in white were not available. There were only 5 days that were black, the 25th through the 29th. So I was like uhhh okay I pick the 25th. As in the 25th of December, aka Christmas Day. He was like okay, and he changed and now it is all set in my profile on the computer that I am coming home on the 25th. (which was the very first day I could have chosen.) President never once mentioned the fact that it was christmas, he just acted like it was totally normal. I think he forgot... So I came home from interviews totally freaked out. I never imagined that I would come home from my mission on christmas day and I am also totally freaked out that the 25th was my first option, what are the odds. I have no idea how that will all play out but I really hope that doesn't ruin your christmas plans. 

    Okay, well enough baggy talk. So this week was amazing because we got to go to xela with the ward and go to the temple!! No one in the mission has been to the temple in 6 months because president suspended all temple trips. But he just sent out an email that said that any companionship that bap. a family in the month of June can go to the temple! Since the only people in my zone that bap. a family in June were me, hermana Zenteno, hermana Valeriano and hermana Leiche, aka my house.  We are all in the same ward and Jorge and his family were going so we got permission to go with the ward! yayayay!!! So we went. and Jorge, Blanca, Lourdes, Maria, and Daniela all went with us. There is nothing sweeter than seeing Jorge at the temple with his family. I love my life! I LOVE my mission! I LOVE that family. Of course we took lots of pictures, I will send you a few, please ignore the ugly crap all over my chest, I have another heat rash (don't worry I told hermana Minnick this morning) Oh and I had a small world moment in Xela. So I walked into the temple and a family of tall white blondes came up to me and said please tell me you speak english, we have no idea what these people are saying to us. and I was like ha ha yeah homies I speak english real well. Then they asked me what mission I am in and I was like Guatemala Retalhuleu and they were like REALLY?! Do you know Audrey Prince? and I was like uhhh.... she was only my comp for 3 months and I spent Christmas with her. Then they were like she is living with us right now in Utah, she’s our cousin! So I told them so send her my love and they gave a little update on hermana Prince, said she is doing great! Small small world. 

   Alright well I am sorry this letter is so long and filled with dumb pointless stuff. but I am super happy! I love the girls I live with, I love my area, I love my ward. I promise you a better letter next week with more mission information, oh an by the way no one will listen to us right now because everyone is watching the world cup every second. I love you to the moon and back and I really hope I don't ruin christmas plans! 

love,

Hermana Outsen