A horrible, no good, very bad week ... even in Italy

Hosford Family and Friends,

I hit my 11-month mark two days ago and I didn't even think about it until I was emailing the day after. Last week we had a great week. We saw a lot of success doing house, we received some good contacts, and really just had a great week teaching lessons.  After about 4 weeks of not having an investigator in Church, we finally had one.  His name is Fabio.  He has your typical problems with depression, but we are helping him get out of it.  Normally he sits in the house, but after meeting with us a couple times he's started leaving his house to fish, to go on walks and various things. Only problem with him (besides smoking) is that he doesn't understand things the best which means we have to keep it simple. However he is very very sensitive to the Spirit which is awesome. So we are helping him and tyring to integrate him into the ward. Last week we met with some new people and just gave our name to a lot of people, made a lot of calls, and such We had one bad day where 3 appointments didn't happen and destroyed our whole night literally.  However, last week was a great week.

This week has been actually just really a horrible week in the sense of dropped appointments and our schedule has been off.  We received 5 appointments for Wednesday (4 new contacts lessons and 1 member lesson). 3 of the appointments were dropped just destroying our P-day and our will. Sad thing is that it carried over to today. We finished our P-day and just had another not great day. However Sunny did email me which made up for it a bit and we don't have to wear jackets anymore which is really nice.

I received like two weeks of mail in like two days (I hadn't received a letter in about a week, then they all came.) So now we are working on a couple projects besides our work. We are trying to make a member book. We just need photos of all our active members. We are also doing publicity work for our English course, which is a boatload of wasted time. So if we have to waste time we want make sure we waste time with lots of people at least. Really the work here is going fine, we just need to call our investigators and set up appointments. We are just tired of investigators not coming to them.

Well I am excited for general conference.  It will be a nice break this weekend.  I hope everyone is well at home.  Write to me more!!  Love everyone -- Anziano Hosford

PS - Tell Amy and Megan sorry about no letter for them this time, but I will try and write one next week.  I am trying to get this letter out tomorrow and don't have a lot of time.  Also ask Megan why she sent me the dollar.  I am a bit confused by that.