SURPRISE! I am still here in San Martin! About 5 months ago president came out and said that no one was going to have more than 6 months in an area (unless you are Hermana Outsen) so since I have 6 months in San Martin and 4 and a half months with my hija I thought I was for sure leaving, everyone did. but surprise. for some reason that I still haven't figured out I stayed and Hermana Zenteno had changes. My zone leaders were really creative with the way the told us who had changes. We gathered together after district meeting on Tuesday and they had written a scripture on a little piece of paper and put it in a balloon with our names on it. We each went up one by one and read our scripture out loud and the scripture told us what our fate was, it was really funny! Mine was Isaiah 55 9 and 10 which goes something like this, my thoughts are not your thoughts and my ways are higher than your ways or something along those lines. When I read it I accidentally read cambios instead of caminos, it was funny. Then Zenteno read hers and her scripture was like prosper the land or something I don't know. We were so surprised! Hermana Zenteno cried so hard! This was one of the hardest changes I have had. My new companion is Hermana Escoto. She’s great, but I love Zenteno so much and I miss her so much it hurts. We went through so much together, we saw so many miracles together, and she changed so much I watched her transform into a different person. and we become the very best friends! I love her so much! I got so attached to her and its really hard to wrap my head around the fact that it is no longer Outsen and Zenteno. Changes are hard. 

   My new companion is Hermana Escoto. She is really sweet and cute and happy. She is from Honduras, we already get along great! (I mean she’s not Zenteno but I cant complain) On Saturday we were contacting in San Alfonzo aka the middle of nowhere and found a really old less active lady. While we were singing a hymn with her, her grandson came out with a purse that he had trapped a giant rat inside of. He and his siblings slash cousins all went crazy on the poor thing and starting smacking it with broom sticks and tree branches. They whacked the rat to death, of course me and Escoto were screaming the whole time. then the 7 year old picked up the dead bloody rat by the tail and started chasing me around with it. I was screaming my head off and I literally grabbed the 10 year old kid and hid myself behind him. Then the less active grandma got mad and took the rat away and threw it in the river. Welcome to San Martin Hermana Escoto.

   Well it rains really hard everyday. thats September for ya in Reu. Oh and the new kid in my district went to Brighton! He is fresh from the MTC and he talks to me about all these people from home that I used to know that I now hardly remember. The first thing he said to me was, do you have a little sister? she looks just like you! and I was like YES YES YES HOW IS JACK QUACK DOING?!  So I got a Jackie update from Elder Evans. Well I love you all! talk to you next monday 

xoxoxo

Hermana Outsen