Anziano Mitchell Hosford: Effectual door

Hosford Family,

Because I know you all would like to know, I am finishing up here in Catania with Anz. Kasper. We have a good work going and I am very happy to finish up here. I talked with President and he told me that I could stop in Napoli before I head to Rome. He would also give me a couple days to see Rome which will be exciting. It’s sad to think that in 6 weeks I will be heading home. I still want to come back here for vacation, but I might have found something better. I was looking under the Italian minor/major and I might be able to come here for an internship/study abroad. I would love that to be honest. I would feel a lot better about it.

Things are fun here. Silla Miles is going home with three of my other companions. The only comps that are staying are Anz. Longhurst (MTC Comp), Prieto, and Kasper. The sadder part is that no one is going to remember me because I have been in the south so long. It’s okay. I am now making a list of things that I need to do before I leave. I am planning a couple of p-days. There isn’t a lot for me to do to be honest.

Only sad thing is with the work. One of our golden families just dropped us. They just told us that they need to decide about all of this. They said that they would come to church. We will see. At least we are remaining friends with them.

We picked up at least 3 newish investigators this week. The first is this kid named Santo. He is kind of a negative death-metal guy. However, if someone can rally profit from the gospel it would be him. He is friends with Marco who is a recent convert and is starting to read the Book of Mormon a little bit.

Next we have Agata who is an investigator that I found with Anz. Hansen. We saw her yesterday for the first time in 4 months. She has read the first two chapters of the Book of Mormon. She also had a dream about her father in spirit prison and linked it right away to the plan of salvation. We hope to see her again.

Then we are working with the Leanza family. The grandfather just died and we have already been teaching the wife and daughter, but now we are also teaching two nieces and a nephew. The grandfather is waiting because he has already accepted the gospel. They have had some dreams about it already. Long story short effectual door.

We have some good stuff going . I need to prepare some stuff for tonight. Talk to you in a little bit via internet. Love you all very much. – Anziano Mitchell Hosford