hello family!

 I LOVED LOVED LOVED that big group family email! I can just hear all your little voices when I read everyones part, glad to hear you are all doing good, sounds like a lot of exciting stuff is going on for all of you, que alegre! 

    Alright, well my week was really really awesome! I would tell you why but I cant really remember.... ha ha I just remember that it was good. I will try to remember bits and pieces. okay, so my new zone ROCKS! It is by far my favorite zone of my mission and I do not want to changes, I don’t want anyone to have changes. It is like all of my very favorite people all in one place all together and there is not one person in my zone that I don’t like. Because we are so small we do a lot of stuff together and we just have a blast. 

     On Saturday I did divisions in the morning with Hermana Valeriano and it was super fun! I have a connection with all the old people here, they are all crazy and so funny and they all love me. So there is this family of 4 of them, they are all sisters, all crazy, all super old, all hilarious and they all love me. So I walked past their house like I do everyday and they gave me some weird exotic fruit like they do everyday and Marina (the craziest one) came out working with us. She is not a member, I always try to bring her to church with me but she is always in the bathroom when I pass by and she yells out the door, ¨sorry canchita but I will be in here for at least another 40 minutes, next sunday for sure¨so she just walked around with us all morning and taught lessons with us and bore her testimony to our investigators even though she has never been to church in her life. and she was singing the guatemalan national anthem all morning, I love her, we will be friends for life I’m sure of it. I see her sister every second because she walks around picking up garbage all day everyday (and there is A LOT of garbage in Guatemala) and she stuffs it all in her dress so she always has a giant lump of garbage in her clothes. I asked her sisters why she does that and they said, ¨she has problems, we tried everything, paying her, talking with her, beating her, and she still wont stop¨ ha ha respect, keeping cleaning the earth lady. 

     So we had a great week full of really butt kick lessons and really smart positive people, on sunday we left really early and passed for maybe 15 people that had all promised to come to church and no one came, it was a real bummer and I was really upset. Thats guatemalans for ya, they are so flakey! but my comp and I had a really nice long chat on sunday and we really helped pump each other up and I finally built up the courage to tell her that I needed her help because I cant do this all by myself. My comp is really great, and we never have any problems but she is so painfully shy and so I literally do everything all by myself and I have for the past 11 weeks. So I told her yesterday that I was just exhausted and stressed and stuff and that I needed her help and that I am not good enough to do it all alone and that it just doesn't work that way. So we had a chat and came up with plans and goals for her to push her a little more and I gave her like a 2 hour long pep talk and we fasted together and yesterday we worked so well together! She contacted people on her own and starting lessons and a bunch of stuff that usually scares her so bad that she almost throws up, but for some reason yesterday she could just do it and it is just so much better when both people in the companionship are working hard TOGETHER. So as much as I really really hate fasting, it works. Oh and we were also really happy yesterday because Blanca got a calling!! She is the first counselor in the young women's! wahhooo! GO BLANCA! best family ever.  okay well I am just very content. I am so happy to hear from the whole family! Tell them all I love them so much and you all keep me going! love you to the mooon and back!

love

Hermana Outsen