Monday, July 28, 2014
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
Monday, July 21, 2014
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This week was supèr super awesome! On Thursday we had a talent show at the church planned by the missionary department in San Martin, more people showed up than come to church! and it was so much fun! Valeriano did a hula dance, I sang Adele and the four of us did a gangster dance. Every organization did some sort of act and it was really fun and funny I was screaming my head off like the whole time, they all think canches are crazy...and we found a family out of it, win win.
On Friday we had a zone workshop, I LOVE my new zone. Everyone is so awesome and we meet in the biggest, newest, most beautiful and air conditioned chapel in all of guatemala. I love being in a small zone because we can all get to know each other really well and do more fun things, like go mini golfing like we did this morning. So anyway... we had our workshop and it was SOOO GOOD! Elder Jorgensen, elder contreras, and a member, Wilder, all gave a little workshop and they were all way good, I learned so much. Let me just tell you a little about this wilder dude. So he is a convert, got baptized like one year ago. So he was talking about the restoration, how important that lesson is, how we can teach it better, ideas and stuff and I literally have never felt the spirt so strong in my entire life, I could not take my eyes off of him because I didnt want to miss one word he said, he probably thought I was so weird and creepy. So I go up to him after to ask him what mission he served in and he tells me, oh im 18, Im preparing for my mission, WHAT. he is going to baptize the whole planet and probably take over the world. So he told me a little bit of his conversion story. He said that before he met the missionaries he was a pastor for an evangelic church (evangelics are crazy nuts, they get up on buses street corners and scream and sing and thrust the espiritu santo upon people and all this weird stuff.) So he meets the missionaries, and they start to chat, at the end of the lesson he tore off the elders missionary tag and broke it in half and threw it on the ground.he said that the Elder picked up his tag, looked him in the eyes and said ÿou are going to be the best and most powerful missionary¨ and Wilder was like I will never ever be a missionary and I will never ever be a mormon and the Elder was like, we´ll see. So some time passed and 2 different elders passed by,he listened,long story short, he said he prayed everyday for 18 days to know if the restoration was true and the 18th day he told the elders, sorry, but I cant be baptized, I have prayed and the lord has not given me an answer so the elders were like okay, lets go, we are going to pray together. So they prayed and he said he felt such a strong spirt and then heard a voice say, bienvenido which means welcome. And he opened his eyes and all three of them were crying. So he got baptized and not one member came to the service because they all hated him and told the elders that they were stupid and that Wilder was only getting baptized to steal money from the church and a bunch of other crap. And when he got baptized his family kicked him out of the house so he lived with the elders for 2 weeks, then his family got over it, Wilder taught them the restauración and they got bap.
So anyway… thats Wilder. He literally is the most incredible teacher. So then on Saturday it was my comps birthday. We decorated her room, ate cake with Mario and his super fun cool family , I think she had a good day. Alright, well I love you lots and lots and I am glad to hear that you are getting better and better every day. love, hermana Outsen
Thursday, July 17, 2014
Well... guess what... I am no longer in zona San Felipe. They split my zone and we are opening a new zone, zona brillantes! President had to do a lot of emergency changes and had to call new zone leaders and district leaders to open up the zone and my very favorite elder is now in my zone as a district leader! We came together and I have not seen him since we left the ccm because he has been in the mountains the whole time. BUT now he is in my zone and the four of us that are all in the same group got to hang out all day today and it was SO FUN! I am so happy we are all together. it rocks. they are the best people alive. I don't really know how I feel about the whole zone split thing because some of my favorites are not in my zone anymore, but we will still see them all the time so Its okay. but now we are 4 hermanas and 8 elders instead of 6 hermanas and 22 elders, so that makes things a whole lot better because when all the elders get together its a giant headache.
Well this week was a really good week! My comp and I were getting along great (I think its because I went on divisions with my trainer and I nearly ripped all my hair out and after that it helped me realize how much I love my comp) so we had a lot of fun together this week and she finally came out of her shell and turns out she is really funny! We found a really cool family of 7 and they love us! There are two types of guatemalans, the ones that I love so much that are just a joy and the ones that totally miff me off. This family is the good type, I love them! they are so funny, friendly, and just so much fun! and they don't go to any church which is unheard of in guatemala, EVERYBODY goes to church. and only one of them is baptized in another church which is also nearly unheard of. So we are going to be working with them a lot to finish off the change. and I may or may not be engaged to her son.... Reina said that she loves me so much and that she has always wanted canche kids and when I told her that i was single she just about dropped dead with excitement. I told her she had to wait 6 months and then we will talk. But she basically has the wedding planned and she said she would clear out a room for me. As for the rest of guatemala, everyone is really miffed off about the world cup because everyone here worships Messi so that was a hard loss and for that we faced a lot of rejection this week because everyone was in a bad mood, and like no one came to church because everyone was watching the world cup but its fine.
Oh and guess what, I chopped my hair this morning. Hermana Valeriano and I decided to do something exciting for her 9 month mark and my year mark so we both chopped our hair. We went over to hermana Terrys house at 7 this morning because she's pro and she cut it for us. My hair is tiny. It was a very spontaneous decision so I will let you know if I like it or not next week because as of now I am not really sure.
alright well we are doing good here in Guat. it stopped raining so now it is really hot all the time again. We are teaching 3 really solid, pilas investigators right now who I just love and it is such a joy to teach them. We are still getting along great in the house. miss you lot and love to the moon and back. sorry this letter is dumb, Im running out of things to tell you guys.... xoxoxox
hermana Outsen
tall (okay maybe just average..)
Happy 4th of July
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