More emails from Italians than friends

Hosford Family,

Well, mail still isn’t getting to us.  It’s weird because it was all fine the first transfer, but not nothing is getting here.  Every now and then one get by, but not 2 or 3 a week.  It’s funny because everyone asks how you all are and I always answer “I don’t know.”  The letters I understand.  Emails, I am receiving more emails from Italians that from my American “friends”.  But ya.  Things are great out here.  My birthday was a pretty good day. I didn’t celebrate as we had a lot of work to do. In the morning we had a baptismal interview for Marco that went well and he should be getting baptized on Saturday.  Then we went out of our area to teach some of our investigators.  They pretty much live right on the border.   It went well with them.  We brought the bishop and he talked nonstop and went in a direction that we didn’t want to go really.  However, the lesson went fine after. The girl already had a baptismal date, we set one with her brother, and her boyfriend said he would like to take the lessons.  However, all of that changed yesterday.  The Catholic Church won’t let the girl (Veronica) and the boy (Andrea) get married if she gets baptized.  So she pretty much dropped us for now which was pretty sad.  She has a testimony, but I won’t say more.  We have set a couple other dates and some of those people are really progressing.  The other girl, Nadia, finally will pray for us and doesn’t block herself which is pretty incredible and she feels the spirit every time she does.  We were in Church on Wednesday learning how to cook and there was this guy that passed by and came to the church to take a look around.  It’s very, very rare that we were in the Church at that time.  It was really a miracle.  There are really a lot of things to write about.  However, after that last appointment I don’t really feel like writing much.  Hopefully everything is well at home.  Love you all very much.  – Anziano Hosford