He’s only 9, but he wants to get baptized

Hosford Family,

It’s strange.  Technically I have less than a month left. I am excited to come home, but very sad to leave Italy and more than anything Sicily. However, if all goes to plan I should be able to come back here in a year. Hopefully, I can do in an internship or study abroad here.  I think a BYU for the Italian major it’s a class that you can do.  Then today I need to register for classes in the fall.  I shouldn’t have any problems getting classes because I have enough credits to be a junior and almost a senior, but I will be taking mostly sophomore/freshman classes.  I got every class figured out except for one.  However, I have an email in about it.

Stuff here is going well. I spent pretty much Monday to Wednesday at Siracusa. It was nice to see a lot of people that I used to know. I also got an exciting call on Wednesday.  One of my old investigators named Veronica wants to see us and so we will see her tomorrow. If you don’t remember, she had a baptismal date.  I would love to see her get baptized while I am here, her and Emanuele. He needs to come to church more and it’s hard for him because he’s only 9, but he wants to get baptized.

We are still working with Francesca and she is doing well.  She has read all of First Nephi. She is doing well.  We are just trying to strengthen her as much as we can so she can make the right choice when the time comes.  It might be coming soon as well. We are still working with Anna, Massimo, and Mario but we aren’t seeing any real progress. Then I missed several appointments with some of our other investigators. However, everyone is doing well.  We have a lot of new contacts and we are happy to see something come from all of this.

We are having some problems with our ward mission leader. He always wants to do correlation at the last minute and where he lives which is far away and on a big work night. So we haven’t been able to do it for several weeks.   He delegated us to clean the baptismal font which would be okay if he would help us. We really need the members to step up and do more.

Well, stuff here is good.  The summer is arriving and unfortunately I won’t be here for it.  I have 4 p-days and a couple days in Tome left then I will be home. I love everyone very much and will see you all soon. – Anziano Hosford