Dear Hosford Family,
Today is really the first year that I remember being leap year. To celebrate, we went to a little and beautiful town called Noto. It was a beautiful day to see it as well. Nice and warm without a cold breeze. We saw a good amount of the town and are planning on coming back and seeing the rest during the spring when they do their flower display. I hope I am still here for it. I should be if I do another transfer here.
I was thinking about it and its really unfair we only have one P-day a week because we really need more time to see everything here. However, I am lucky because I only have one more major thing to see and I can do that next P-day if I get transferred.
Speaking of transfers ... we receive transfer calls on Saturday. I don't know really if I will stay or go. President told me that I might do one here. I will miss the area if I go, but I will be happy to stay and do another. Especially now that we actually have something going on. Regardless it means the end of my 6th transfer and as of now, I hit my year mark in 55 days, exciting and sad.
We were supposed to have an area seventy and his wife at our zone conference. I heard she is a real box breaker. I had several lines prepared for her if she did. If she is going to call someone to "repentance" she better be perfect. Lucky for me and more lucky for President Kelly ... they didn't come because of a strike or something in Rome. Close call? Zone conference however was very inspiring. It was geared more towards finding new investigators which is exactly what I wanted to hear.
So the week went pretty well. We found 4 new investigators last week and eliminated all of our potential contacts, which meant this week would be focused on finding again and teaching.
The week started with a split and it went very well. I did splits with an elder from Peru and he lived here in Italy for a while as a kid. We had a great time and found like 3 new contacts on like 16 doors. Which is pretty incredible. The better news is ... two of the contact have families. So it hopefully goes somewhere during this week.
We continued to work with one less active. He just won't open up and we have used a variety of members to use while teaching him. We are starting to run out of teaching material. Then we are working with a couple more less actives, but for the most part they are busy or sick. Less active work is hard. It's fun to go out with the members and do it though.
We saw Rita again and had a decent discussion. She had a friend there who just a bone head. He was asking about the priesthood and why women don't hold it and why 6 men and 6 women weren't called as apostles. We tried to explain our beliefs, but he just views the priesthood as a sign or something of power/stature. I was a little bold and asked if he was questioning the ministry of Jesus Christ and what he did on the earth and that series of questions shut him up real fast. (Italians are very prideful ... anything that doesn't make them superior or richer isn't important). So he left after a while and we just talked to Rita about various gospel subjects and coming to Church and we saw her open up more. She is really a fantastic person who just needs to come once and meet our bishop and really it would change and help her whole idea about church. She has an awesome family.
Our African with a baptismal date found work and a place to live... he just can't find the time to see us anymore. We haven't seen him in a week. He has been blowing us off. He said we would be in Church on Sunday... we hope. good thing my salvation isn't based off his. It has been nice that he blows us off. We have been able to find and teach more Italian families.
It may not seem we have a ton of investigators. We have a couple more and now like 10 contacts ... more than 10 people we are working with. Things are going great honestly. Just need to plan to passby everyone. Be interesting to see where we are at next week. Well, love everyone and I hope everything is okay at home. Anziano Hosford
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