Email 9/21 @ 4:52 p.m.: Mission Field

Hey,

I am now in New Jersey. Wow already a week here. Almost a month on my mission. Friday will be one Month. Time is going fast; it's kinda crazy. I am living in the town of Flemington serving in the Clinton South area. It's a Spanish/ English area. So my companion is Spanish speaking and I am English. I have learned a little Spanish. Just a basic testimony. New Jersey is pretty but I like Utah so much better. I would only visit here, not a place to live. It's all really old where I am and in other areas dirty. We call New Jersey the garbage state and not the garden state. Well, depending on where you are. Two Elders in my mission in the City of Newark got jumped and were injured but are doing well. It's crazy the things that are going on here. I am doing well and the work here is going really well. The members here are really nice and help us out a lot. We have gotten to eat at members houses a few times already. This week they are putting me and another new Elder together as our companions are going to training. We are kinda scared because we don't know where we are going and stuff. I have gotten many doors slammed in my face, been yelled at and ran into a few crazy people. Some make good stories I will have to share at a later time. Today for P-day we had an all mission activity and got to go to the shore and to a light house. I got to see New York across the way. I got some pictures I will be sending home. I am having a hard time right now. A mission really is hard and you feel so alone and get depressed really fast. At times I wish I was in Utah still. I am not really home sick but a mission kinda sucks. It's like being in jail but it's bigger then jail. I wake up more tired then when I went to bed and always hungry even though you eat 3 times a day. But it never is that much. Always busy and never have much time. Sometimes I wonder why I am doing this and if I made the right choice, my doing this. A lot of the time I feel like this was a wrong choice and that I shouldn't be here. But I love the Lord and am trying my best. In the mission field you spend so much time on your knees. My companions mom just died a few weeks ago so if he can deal with that and still do this work I think I can keep going forward. I don't know what else to say. I hope things at home are going well. That's about it that has gone on. Just teaching lessons and trying to find more people to teach. I will write more next week. Well I love and miss you all.

Love,
Elder Sanders