Eaten 79 pizzas!

Hosford Family,

Last Saturday was quite the day. We received transfer calls.  My companion and myself are both staying. However, I am district leader which I am kind of excited for. I already have everything ready for the first meeting. I am taking all the things that I have from past district leaders and I'm making my own meeting. So one of the sisters left and we got a new one from France. I forgot her name and where in France.

We had quite the week last week with finding people and teaching lessons to investigators and less actives. However, this week has just been really slow. We had a couple lessons fall through (like 5) and a lot of people have been busy this week.  We are hoping for the best for next week thought. This will make the only week that we didn't show improvements, but it still better than our first two weeks. However, we have had a lot of member work this week and did perform a lot of service with/for them.

I hope that pizza place in Charlotte is good.  I will tell you it its true or not when I come home.  Two signs that you can tell if its real Napoli pizza is:  needs to be made in an oven with wood ... wood oven and the sauce, choose, and oil need to make it soupy.  I have my doubts about it.  Now I have eaten 79 pizzas. I have slowed down because the pizza here isn't as good.  We are going back to Napoli soon so I can eat one which makes me happy.

We weren't able to see Rita this week. Her son opened a hair salon and has been really, really busy. I will call her.  I know her family struggles. Two sons don't have work and one just opened a salon. She has two 20-year-old twins and a 20 year old son. They are fantastic. I hop ewe can see them this week.

Aka - we dropped him.  He has missed about 5 appointments, hasn't been to church in like two weeks, and we caught him with cigarettes complaining about having no money. I don't care as much about the cigarettes and the church as the missed appointments when people miss appointments.  Its the only thing that pisses me off.

So Instead we are making contacts and are actually a little behind right now with that and referrals. We have done a bit of house lately. We need to go find more contacts.

Zone conference was nice. Look at dad's email for what I said about it.

For numbers here, the standard of excellence is 21 lessons a week no including less active lessons.  I haven't known anyone to do it. The most lessons I have done in a week was 12 with less active lessons (last week, before it was 11 with my trainer).  A lesson is 2 prayers and one gospel principle at least.  The only thing our mission president really wants is us to have two new investigators every week. The mission average is like 1 per companionship every week. We have done 11 in five weeks.  We were going for 18 this transfer.  We will do it next transfer.  Well, that's it from me. Not a lot going on and we need to find.  Love everyone. Talk to everyone on Wednesday.  -- Anziano Mitchell Hosford