I LOVE to teach

Hosford Family,

I forgot how nice it is to not be a leader here in the mission.  I don’t have to take numbers, plan district meetings, or even do training sessions.  I can just simply be me and find and teach people.  Things are going well here.  Yesterday we went and saw old Greek temples.  We traveled all the way to Agrigento to do it. It’s pretty much on the other side of the mission.  I will send photos home next Wednesday. These old temples are incredibly built and are really, really old.

Work here is going well. The sisters are having two baptisms on Saturday. It’s nice to see this family getting baptized.  We found this family but Anz. Hansen gave them to the sisters to teach.  We have several dates.

We technically have 5 dates but only 2 of them do I really consider as dates. We still have two dates with the kids from Egypt, but we haven’t seen them lately. Then we have adate with Salvo, but his mom is against it.

However, we do have two good dates.  One is for this investigator names Mario. We did a fast with him so that his parents would lighten up.  I don’t know them, but he is 26 years old.  They are very against the church because they think we brain wash.  However, we did the fast and he even fasted from smoking.  We will see him today and see if he hasn’t smoked.  He is making progress, just slowly.

After him we have Paolo.  His is an older energetic guy.  We have had a couple lessons with him and he even came to General Conference. We hope to see him again this week.  He has a date for November 10^th.

Some people that we saw last week aren’t completely ready yet.  That one family of the sisters that I told you about in the last letter aren’t completely out of the picture.  We are always trying to find new people to replace the ones we lost.  We found two 17-year-old girls who are willing to listen to us.  We would have more people but Anz. Hansen likes to share our people with the Sisters.  Which for me is a bit discouraging.  I LOVE to teach.  Everything is well here.  Look forward to getting letters.  Love you all lots.  -- Mitchell

The rock formations might have been old homes.
We found them in Agrigento and they look like a lot of fun.

The guy in the red is Andrea. We are pretty much with him everyday. 

The one on the far right is Sorella Rosato...from Como, Italia. It's up north. 
Her comp is Sorella Techiert, then Anziano Hansen...then me.

One of my favorite things here...it's a drink call a Granita. Its like a slushee...
but a lot better. it has the consistency of a slushee but you eat it like ice cream.
Do you remember that Italian ice we used to buy for Megan?...
that is what this is...but a lot better and softer.