Brest blog

Brest is amazing. It is about ten or twenty degrees cooler here and always a nice cloud cover so I don't have to worry about the sun, basically my dream come true with weather. It is very very nice. My companion is Elder Weight from Montana. We get along very well and it is a lot of fun in the apartment even though it is just two of us in the city. Our area covers the northern west part of france and we are the closest to Great Britain, we are actually in Britain, since it is Bretagne and Great Britain is Grande Bretagne, but the British just call it Brittany, anyway. It is a good sized area and just a small branch. But I like the branch since I pretty much know everyone now and it is very close. Also, I got into town and found out I had a talk to give as well. That was an adventure, just prepared a few notes on how we do receive answers to our prayers and got up and spoke like a frenchman giving a talk. Talk about the gift of tongues, that was truly one of those moments, especially since I seem to be having a hard time speaking to people in French right now, could just be nervousness, not sure. And we cover most of the small villes between us and Quimper and a bit more east. The transfer by myself went better than I expected. I had help in Le Mans getting my bags off and on from one of the elders there and then got off the train at brest just fine and am glad I didn't have more stops or have to go through Paris. The internet arrangement is not the same, we are actually in a gaming center right now emailing since the library was closed, but it will be in on of those two each week since there aren't any computers at the church to use. The branch is a lot smaller since it is a branch, but it is just as good I think. Really nice members and I like it a lot.
The reason that I haven't emailed is because well on monday evening we went out to renne to stay the night. Tuesday Elder Weight had a district leader meeting in Angers, I didn't get to go and did exchanges with Elder Weber (from Germany) instead in Rennes. We got to teach a really cool guy named Araphat Muhammad the first lesson. It was really cool since we got on the bus and sat in a four man seat area. He came and sat across from us and we didn't talk. then we got off at the same stop and he left. We passbacked an ami who was sleeping and went to our other passback we planned. Well we didn't know the name and this Mauri guy let us in the bat (building) as he was going in. We go to the top and decide to port the bat because we didn't know which was there apartment. We get to a door and the guy from the bus answers and the guy who let us in was on the couch. Coincidence? I think not. So we taught them and it was really good. Then on Wednesday I went to St. Briec to do an exchange with Elder Schaunig (from Austria). It was pretty good and we did some more porting before a rendez vous and talked to two evangelicals for an hour and got a return appointment. Really good days. I also got a new suit from E. Schaunig that he bought in Austria but is too big now. Fit pretty nicely. Then we got back today and viola.
Thank you for the prayers and thoughts, I'll attest that they are truly answered and the Lord does help us. You are in my prayers too and I hope that everything is going good.

Love always
Elder Sanborn