New P Day starting July 28th-Monday's

As for me, things are great!  
Oh, and before I forget, they are changing our 
preparation days to Monday starting the 28th, 
just so you know.  And yes pops, I 
do read ALL of both your emails, sorry if I 
don't answer all your questions, its 
hard to remember them all.  Thanks for the 
list of questions, I will just 
paste the list and answer them.

* Have you gotten your replacement debit card yet?  
Yeah, I did.  Thank you so much.  I got it over a week ago, 
sorry for forgetting to tell you.  I just haven't had to use it.  
But I am probably going to today.  
In France, there are never sales during the year; 
but, twice a year, they have a 
month long thing cold "soldes" or sales in 
English where country wide everything 
goes 50 percent off, literally, 50 percent off.  
It is ridiculous.  I don't know 
why anyone would buy anything any other 
time of the year.  So I think I might 
get some shirts and a couple ties today if that is OK.  
If there is anything you 
guys want just let me know and I will 
get it for you and send it home.


* Did you get your suits taken in?
I haven't yet, but I am trying!  
I don't really know where to get it done at.  I 
yellow paged tailors and the one I stopped 
by said he could do it, but not for a 
month because of soldes, 
so we will have to see.  They really are 
pretty big on me now so it would be nice 
to get  them taken in.  I am going to keep looking 
though.  I think at Christmas time, or the 
next soldes, I might want to get a 
French suit; they really aren't too much.  
But I will let you know when I do and 
how much it will cost.

* How's the French coming?
It is coming OK.  I can communicate with 
people enough to get by, and I can 
understand almost everything.  
I am still working hard on it though.  It is 
definitely prevalent that the Lord's 
hand is helping me out!

* Did your baptism of St. Cyr actually happen 
last Sunday? If so, how did it go?
YES!  I had my first baptism last Sunday!  
The branch president baptized him.  
It was amazing.  I have pictures of him and 
the branch president on my camera.  
They really encourage us to have ward 
and branch members baptize converts 
because it is a much better integration 
into the church and more fellowshipping 
is involved.  But it went so well!  
I will send you a copy of the program and 
pictures soon.  I am surprised with the success 
I have already had.  That was the 
first person either of my companions have 
taught that has been baptized and they 
have both been out over a year!  
Hopefully I will keep seeing success.

* Are you getting enough to eat - 
I'm concerned you've lost so much weight?
haha, yes;  I am getting more than enough.  
I have lost it in my neck and 
shoulders mainly so I am still as big as ever, 
no worries.  But I am eating 
well, and I try to eat an orange and a yogurt 
every day, even though I have 
gotten in the habit of drinking coke again, 
but it is nice to have.

* How are you and your companion getting along 
- are you legends yet?
We are getting along so well!  
I love Elder McKnight, we have so much in common.  
We are doing a lot of good things here in Metz, 
and its funny you ask that; we 
haven't become legends yet, but we did 
accomplish something this week.
Our year wide goal this year in our mission 
is to "reverse the trend" meaning 
that in the last 5 years, there have been 
less and less baptisms every quarter.  
So our goal this year is to have more than 
the same quarter the year previous, 
and to also beat the last months baptismal number.  
So, we had 28 first quarter 
and we needed 29 this quarter, which ended yesterday.  
Well, we only had 9 going 
into June so it looked bad but we got 18 more 
going into Sunday.  A ville in St. 
Etiene had one Sunday morning and then ours 
in the afternoon made  it 29!  The 
day before the end of the quarter. 
 It was amazing.  You cant say the Lord 
didn't help us.  I know we only achieved  
this goal because of the help of our 
Heavenly Father.  So, we haven't become 
legends yet, but people were calling us 
from all over the mission thanking us for 
getting the baptism we needed.  
I love this work.

Remember I love you 
and that there is nowhere else I would rather be!