I really love this work

Hosford Family,

Well, I am slammed right now.  We are in the middle of transfer week and I have no time to do anything.  Anz. Hansen left for Rome on Monday with Silla Teichert and so I have remained here taking care of all the transfers and trying to keep work going.  It was easy with Anz. Hansen because we both carried the work, but I have been carrying the work these last couple days and I have been stressed out a little bit. Our phone never stops ringing and I always have someone to call to set up an appointment to do something.  Honestly, I probably talk on the phone for over an hour each day. It’s a lot.  I am very excited for Saturday when everyone will be gone and it will just be me and Anz. Prieto.  He is my new comp and he comes from Brazil. He is young in the mission, but he is a stud. I did a split with him two transfers ago.  I am very excited to work with him.

This is what has happened this week.  Marco got baptized on Saturday and confirmed on Sunday.  We are trying to teach him self-reliance because he always calls us and other members. We can’t baby him and he has to grow up a little bit. He has a lot to learn still, just needs time. I forgot his conversion story.  He met the missionaries seven years ago and I forgot about how he got his testimony.  However, he was on and off with the missionaries because he never kept commitments. We almost dropped him for that.  Then one day he changed and started to follow up.  That’s his story from what I remember.

Other than him, our 17-year-old girl is progressing.  We are trying to get her to read every day which is hard, but when she prays, she feels the Holy Ghost.  She is a work in progress.

We had a great lesson with an investigator named Alberto.  We taught him the restoration and pretty much told him to do things today because there might not be a tomorrow.  He understood and from the start to the end of the lesson we saw a difference in him.

There is more, but I don’t want to write about it because it’s not done yet.  We might be losing some dear investigators.  I need to call them.

Other than all of that, things are going well here. I am very tired this week with just everything going on, but we are seeing miracles.  I really love this work.  Love everyone and I’ll write next week.  – Anz. Mitchell Hosford