Oct 22nd

I always feel so rushed when we email on P-day, one hour goes by SO fast! It's so pretty here! When I got here I was so nervous. The mission President and his wife first took us to the Portland Temple...oh my beauTiful! Then we went to the mission home and ate sandwiches and grapes (I thought of the Scott children...miss them!) Then we drove an hour and a half to the beach....in the center of the beach (not where I live, in another city) there's a HUGE rock. The rock is our theme for the Salem Mission (D&C 6:34). Then President told each of us that if we build upon the rock we cannot fail, each one of us wrote our fears on a piece of paper and buried the paper in the sand is was really cool. I may do a lot of things on my mission but...I will NOT fail!
Tell Michelle Walton that I met Morgan Ellot, she's a trainer in my area but, not mine :(
How is everyone? How are my Sissys?
The days are long and fast, I need time to soak it all in...I need a nap...tell Aunt Cindee every day about 3pm I think of her!
Tell anyone who wants to write me that I love email but snail mail is the way to go! I have so little time on P-day to answer them all.

Love you with all that I am

Sister Z