This was hands down the craziest and most emotional week of my entire life! Lets start with Roberto! On Tuesday Hermana Sanchez and I did divisions and we went back to my birth place, Tzununa to watch our convert Roberto open his MISSION CALL! He is incredible! I love him with all my heart in the most missionary appropriate way. He is so wonderful and he is going to be an incredible missionary! I got to see all of the members and it was so awesome! I love that ward so much! Roberto is going to Nicaragua and he leaves on the 26th of November! Me and Sanchez are both going to be in the mission still so we get to go to his farewell and to the temple with him and it is going to be pure joy!
On to wednesday.... 4 companions, 2 weddings, 15 converts, 2 zones, 1 daughter, 9 roommates, 2 general converts, and 2 houses later... I left San Martin. It was so hard! Saying goodbye to San Martin almost killed me, that place will always have a chunk of my heart. So here is the funny part... I went back to Reu. The very same district I started in! so I will see Roberto like all the time. I am in an area called Peru, but its not in Peru, its in Guatemala. Its a really good area and everyone already knows me because I was in Tzununa for 6 months so I already have their confidence. I was a little bummed to go back to the same zone where I started because I wanted to know other places but after like 3 minutes it hit me just how cool it is to end where I started and get to see all the wonderful people I met here again before I go home. It is literally like I started in Westview ward and finished in Meadowlark. Peru is a super cool area! My companion was Natividad. she's totally crazy! She is one of those hermanas that all the hermanas hate and all the elders love. She is extremely sassy and really disobedient but we get along really really well, she absolutely loves me. but then on Friday she had emergency changes, aka 2 days after the changes she did an oooops and President had to take her out.
so companion number two in area peru is HERMANA CASTRO!!! holy crap I love her! we are best friends. she's so cool. she's from honduras., just like my old comp. the same stake actually. Right before changes all my cuates from Brillantes were like, hey Outsen, if you could pick any hermana to be your comp who would you pick and I was like La Castro, but thats never going to happen because we have the same time and she's in Reu. BUT THEN I WENT BACK TO REU WITH SOMEONE WITH THE SAME TIME AS ME! I totally thought it was a miracle but then she told me that President asked her who she wanted to be with and she said Outsen and he was like, I will take it into consideration. and now look! we are comps! but it still was a miracle because I don't even know Castro and she doesn't know me. we have just heard of each other and both wanted to get to know each other. crazy huh! Castro has been sick, she had to get surgery in the capital then she lived in presdients house for 3 weeks, (hence the companion preference privilege). Since I only had 2 days in the area we area basically opening the area and we already have someone lined up for baptism on Saturday because she had already been to church twice there were just no missionaries to teach her. We show up and BAM! she's so cool. and we met her family and they are a family of 11 and 6 of them came to church. thats a pretty good start to the change! im so pumped! I love my comp, I love my new area! I miss my old zone but its fine. I saw them all today at McDonalds.
Then the next day some drunk guy stole my watch. It was so scary! He cornered us and was like canchita canchita and tried to touch me so my super cool companion hid me behind her and he kept telling me to give him my watch. We tried to run, but we were cornered and he wouldn't let us pass until I gave him my watch. he then tried to hit my comp, luckily she dodged it. and so I gave him my watch and then he stepped back and we ran away. he smelled really bad, and it was mid day. like noon.
My comp doesn't have have a watch and we don't have a phone. so we tell time according to the sun, no joke. I told the elders who I share the area with (super cool elders btw, we all get along great) and one of them is this huge white guy, and he was like don't worry vos Outsen, i will get your watch back. and then he told me that the drunk guy took his shoes off and started throwing them at him and whipping him with his sweaty shirt. im still watchless.....
Well that was my week! We are totally going to kick butt here in Peru! I hope you have an awesome week! know that you are always in my prayers and that I love you to the moon and back lots of times!
de la Hermana Outsen