I left Melun and now I'm here out in the west side of France in a city called Quimper.  Lately it’s been really hot and humid here but not as bad as Central and Eastern France. I'm about 45 minutes by bus from the beach. The city is super super super small!!!  A lot different than my other areas.  Anyway, the west side of France has a reputation of being really hard for missionaries, and it's true... but we did find a guy that we’ve been teaching for a few weeks who we’ve given a baptismal date.  Hopefully it will work.  He has Word of Wisdom issues such as smoking and drinking that he is working on.  He seems to be improving little by little though!  We met him door knocking.  My new companion’s name is Elder Meissner.  Mom, it’s a good thing you wanted Germany to win the world cup because he's German!  He's actually from Austria though... he was born and lived in Germany for 11 years then moved to Austria and has been there ever since. So he's Austrian too and German!  He speaks really good English!  Also, this is his last transfer, so he finishes his mission in 5 weeks. It's good, however, he's not too interested in soccer so he wasn’t super excited about Germany winning. Of course he wanted them to win but sports aren’t his thing. He's more in to listening to classical music and playing string instruments. It’s a big change from all of my other companions, it'll be fun.

We have a new mission president now!  He actually speaks really good English as well, and he has a good accent when he speaks. It’s not very thick at all. His name is President Babin. The ward here is a branch... there’s around 15-20 people that show up every Sunday. So it’s a big change. This is the first time on my mission that I'm in a Branch.

Yesterday we were door knocking and a lady and her husband answered and they let us in!!  What a surprise. That doesn’t happen a whole lot. They really liked our message but they're leaving on vacation for 3 weeks so they'll be gone for a while. Maybe when they come back!

On Saturday there was a cool experience... a baptism!  But for an 8 year old boy.  The church here (it’s just a part of a big building where they rent out a few rooms) doesn’t have a baptismal font so the baptism was at the ocean!!!  Before I left Melun, we had a baptism for a 13 year old girl.  Her family are already members so now she is too!