okay okay okay! Well this week was so incredibly amazing but also so incredibly stressful! Don't be frightened if I come home bald because I think all my hair fell out, but its okay. It was so worth it! So you know how I told you last week that Maribel and Douglas were all ready to get married and baptized. Well on wednesday Hna Sanchez decided to randomly do divisions and take me out of my area. And Douglas had some Satan attack or something and yelled at the hermanas and said he refused to get married, and never wanted us to come back and stuff like that, I am not really sure exactly what went down because I wasn't there but the next day at zone meeting she told me and the whole zone what happened and that she wanted to drop them and it was all really sad, but I refused to drop them without talking to them because they were totally fine like 2 days before. So we set up a lesson with a really rich family from the capital that I called and invited to the baptism because they knew Maribel when she was little and basically raised her and they are members. So they came. We had a really incredible lesson with their whole family, the whole family from the capital, and our kick butt zone leader, Elder Medina! We watched a video about eternal families then had a great lesson about baptism and the law of chastity and at the end of the lesson Douglas said that he wanted to get married and baptized!! wahooo!! So the family from Guate was going to go back to Guate saturday morning and so we had to do the wedding and the baptism Friday. and that lesson ended at 9:30 thursday night, and we were going to be in Xetulu for a mission activity all day Friday, STRESS! 

     So Elder Medina and I were literally up till 3 in the morning on the phone calling all of the lawyer in Guatemala trying to find someone that could do it on such short notice, without the DPI that Douglas left in Mexico and cheap. We finally got it all planned out with a lawyer who is a member from Mazate who just happens to be Elder Contreras´s mission leader so its a good thing that contreras and I are tight because he pulled some strings for me. So I went to bed at peace. Then woke up to stress when Elder Medina called and told me that the lawyer was going to go to Xela at noon and we were going to xetulu at 9. So we came up with the only solution possible, take Maribel and Douglas to Mazate in the morning before Xetulu, get the act done, and still throw them their party at night and have the wedding, perfect right. So Medina and Jorgy came to San Martin early to go to Mazate with us before 9. BUT the very difficult guy from the capital said no, that he wanted to do it here at 5. So we told him the situation and he was like just go to your activity and I will take care of everything, I know a guy. and we were like, okay but make sure its not expensive because thats the reason we were going to use the guy from Mazate, and he was like, I’m all rich and powerful, don't worry about the money. 

    So then we went to Xetulu and it was SO MUCH FUN OH MY GOSH! Xetulu is the biggest and the only amusement park in all of central america and it just happens to be in my area by the way. in august we broke the record of baptisms as a mission and so president let us all go to Xetulu. We rode all the rides, ate ice cream, ran around like children, got to wear pants, and I got to be with my zone all day long and I love my zone, it was seriously so much fun! I loved every second of it! 

    So we left Xetulu at like 4 and I called the guy from guate to see if everything was all ready with the lawyer and it was like, fíjese hermana, we have a little problem, he is willing to do it but its going to be 450 quetz and we don't have the money and neither does Douglas. and I was like yeah bro, WE TOLD YOU THAT LIKE 10 TIMES HENCE THE MAZATE PLAN! so i was all bummed and since my zone is so close, they all know Maribel and her kids because they have been to activities  with the zone and stake conference and they all know how much my comp and I love her and how hard we have worked for her and so without me even asking they each pitched in and we were able to gather up the 450 quetz all before leaving xetulu. I LOVE my zone. it was so sweet. it was totally a Despicable Me moment when the minions chip in their money to build a rocket, thats exactly how it went. So we got back to San Martin at 4:45 and the wedding was at 5 (good thing everyone in guatemala shows up to everything 2 hours late always) and we ended up decorating the chapel beautifully for the wedding and lots of members came and after the wedding and they got baptized  and it was honestly the best bap. service I have had on my mission and even though the wedding was short notice and stressful, it all worked out in the end and , thanks to my zone who totally helped us out with EVERYTHING! 

   So on Friday we went to xeutulu, had a wedding, and a baptism, I guess you could say it was the best day of my mission! I love this area, changes our on wednesday and I’m almost positive that I am leaving, thinking about leaving San Martin rips my heart out, pray for me on wednesday, because I think I might die leaving my companion who is my very best friend, my zone who is so united its like we´re one, and my home,, San Martin. 

love,

Hermana Outsen