(Written Letter)

Mom and Dad
What's up?  Today is sunday and I have been here in Oregon for 5 days. This is only my third day as an actual missionary though.  I'm writing you this now but i'll probably just end up emailing you all of this tomorrow anyway, but its alright.  My trainer is Elder Falatea from Hawaii and he is super cool.  We are a lot alike in how we can be relaxed and have a good time but still get a bunch of work done.  We have already taught around 6 or 7 lessons in the last 2 days we've been together.  We've found several new investigators which is sweet too!Then yesterday I asked Brandon and Kelly to be baptized on May 21st and they said Yes!!  I got my first two people on date!  The struggle will be that they have to get married before then but they want to so we are going to help them.  We should have 7 of our on dates, progressing investigators, and less actives coming to church today so lets see if they all make it.  Maybe i'll let you know if I finish the letter after church, how many came. or i'll just email you tomorrow.  haha  The first 3 days were super hard being here.  I felt really lonely and depressed.  Like it's just me and my companion and if we have a bunch of people fall through or we can't find anyone to teach it really sucks!  And i'm used to being with you guys or my district at the MTC so just living with one companion and barely seeing or talking to other people can be super depressing.  It has been better since we got a bunch of new investigators and lessons and stuff but it can still be a struggle.  I also try not to think about how i'm only on day 5 and I have a super long time left.  It's a struggle.  It can definitely be fun but it can just as well be depressing.  Maybe I will get used to it.  Elder Snyder is in the same area as us so we've seen him the past couple days which was cool.  P-day is tomorrow which i'm excited about and i'm sure i'll let you know how its going when I email tomorrow...
I am now finishing this letter after church and only one of the seven made it to church so that sucked but it's whatever.  Well I will be writing you guys and emailing.  Love you and Miss you!
love sawyer