Sorry for the delay. what happened was that we had to wait for a hermana from Guacamayas. the sisters in centro are going to do divisions for 2 weeks with hermanas that are preparing to serve missions and we had to recieve them and make sure everything was good. so that is whay i am writing you late. i dont have much time cause i have to be in the house at 930 but all is good here. we didnt baptize this week because Letys daughter monse has her real dad. and the grandma on the side of her real dad wants her to do stuff in the catholic church. so the poor girl is a little confused. so that is what happened. Satan trying to stir things up. but Pedro is doing good he accepted fecha to be baptized this week the 14. we had a really good lesson with him this week. we had him make a list of all the blessings he could recieve if he got baptized and then we asked him if there was anything bad that would happen after being baptized and he couldnt think of anything. He had a huge list of blessings and couldnt think of one bad think. i asked him why would you wait to recieve all these blessings. He couldnt couldnt think of anything and accepted fecha. so we need to pray for him so that he pulls through and can be baptized. but also this week we found alot of new investigators. me and my comp have been praying to know where there are familes that are waithin to hear the gospel and we found 3 really cool families this week. we felt we should contact a part that we have never contacted before and we contacted and didnt have much success. then i guy was walking toward us and i felt i should contact him in the street so i did. turns out he got baptized in louisiana and now lives here. his wife and his 2 daughters havent been baptized. they are really cool. i know god knows the people are ready to recieve the gospel and will guide us if we are willing to do our part. we have put goals to contact more people to show are faith and we really have seen the blessings. we found 19 news this week and 17 of them accepted fecha to be baptized. so we are going to keep working had this week to find more families that are ready for the gospel. but sounds like everyone is doing good. teisha congrats on the win in tennis. keep up the good work. keep me posted on my future wife. haha and tate all i have to say is shoot the ball. haha love ya bud. and this week i didnt get the package so i dont know if it got lost or what. but i havent got it. but my birthday was pretty legit. i ate so much food and cake it was alot of fun. on sunday hermana ana made me bbq ribs that she found in sams club to use the rudy sause. it was way good. i felt at home. haha but everything is going good here in mexico. love you lots. tell the Robinsons thank you for the christmas present. they sent me UT sunglasses and pens and a sweet tie. so tell them thanks. love,
Elder Hancock
Baptisms
Monday, January 9, 2012
Jan 2 2012
Fam,
Thanks for all the birthday wishes. it is pretty crazy to think that i am 21. time goes by way too fast. also happy new years. For new years we went to a members house with Elder Roskelly and his comp and we had a little fam night. and then we ate food and we had permision to be home till 1030. so that was fun. on Sunday i celebrated my birthday with pedro. He wanted me to make a texas dinner. so i did the best i could. i made steak and french fries. im not going to lie. it was pretty legit considering the tools i had to use. i had to cook it over a stove because there are no grills here in mexico. so i did that and had a few seasonings and i used alot of A1. we found A1 in walmart and we used that. it was a way good steak. pedro liked it. after we had root bear floats. so that was fun. Pedro just needs to read more of the book of mormon. he is a awesome guy. the key is to talk to his wife and that is what we are going to do. we are just going to ask her straight up why she doesnt want to listn to her. so we will see how that goes. but this week we are going to baptize Monse the daughter of Lety. she is turning 8 this week so we will have a baptism this week. The zone is doing good. we really got some good missionarries here. so i feel we will start to see changes. This week we asked Pres. to have a special meeting with all the zone to animate them to complete their goals. so we will see how that goes. Mom thanks for getting all the air force crap done. that is cool that Lamar Smith wrote a letter. that was nice of him. that is cool that air force is ranked to be one of the top schools in the nation. it is crazy that pretty soon i will be back in school. i dont even want to think about that. haha but the work in our ward is going good. the youth are pretty strong in my ward. it could be better. but they are good. and alot of the youth arent really in the ward because here in mexico there is a high school for the church and alot of the youth go there in mexico city. but i feel that the ward has progressed. on sunday hardly any of the members came. but all my converts where there so i was happy. haha but this week i will go to cuernavaca. so i should get my package with my scriptures and stuff. but i already got the package from the lady that put it there in the office. i got the knife. it is pretty cool. thanks. i really like the grooves that they did. This week we have some more holidays to deal with. haha on the sixth is a day called el dia de los reyes. the day of the kings. they celibrate when the 3 wise men gave gifts to jesus christ. and that is when they give presents to there kids and stuff is on that day. i swear every week there is a holiday in mexico. haha but it is all good. that means that we get more and more food. haha but i love you all. keep up the good work.
Elder hancock
Thanks for all the birthday wishes. it is pretty crazy to think that i am 21. time goes by way too fast. also happy new years. For new years we went to a members house with Elder Roskelly and his comp and we had a little fam night. and then we ate food and we had permision to be home till 1030. so that was fun. on Sunday i celebrated my birthday with pedro. He wanted me to make a texas dinner. so i did the best i could. i made steak and french fries. im not going to lie. it was pretty legit considering the tools i had to use. i had to cook it over a stove because there are no grills here in mexico. so i did that and had a few seasonings and i used alot of A1. we found A1 in walmart and we used that. it was a way good steak. pedro liked it. after we had root bear floats. so that was fun. Pedro just needs to read more of the book of mormon. he is a awesome guy. the key is to talk to his wife and that is what we are going to do. we are just going to ask her straight up why she doesnt want to listn to her. so we will see how that goes. but this week we are going to baptize Monse the daughter of Lety. she is turning 8 this week so we will have a baptism this week. The zone is doing good. we really got some good missionarries here. so i feel we will start to see changes. This week we asked Pres. to have a special meeting with all the zone to animate them to complete their goals. so we will see how that goes. Mom thanks for getting all the air force crap done. that is cool that Lamar Smith wrote a letter. that was nice of him. that is cool that air force is ranked to be one of the top schools in the nation. it is crazy that pretty soon i will be back in school. i dont even want to think about that. haha but the work in our ward is going good. the youth are pretty strong in my ward. it could be better. but they are good. and alot of the youth arent really in the ward because here in mexico there is a high school for the church and alot of the youth go there in mexico city. but i feel that the ward has progressed. on sunday hardly any of the members came. but all my converts where there so i was happy. haha but this week i will go to cuernavaca. so i should get my package with my scriptures and stuff. but i already got the package from the lady that put it there in the office. i got the knife. it is pretty cool. thanks. i really like the grooves that they did. This week we have some more holidays to deal with. haha on the sixth is a day called el dia de los reyes. the day of the kings. they celibrate when the 3 wise men gave gifts to jesus christ. and that is when they give presents to there kids and stuff is on that day. i swear every week there is a holiday in mexico. haha but it is all good. that means that we get more and more food. haha but i love you all. keep up the good work.
Elder hancock
Dec 26 2011
It was good to hear from all of you too. I couldnt even recognize tates voice. haha What i did yesterday was first i went to church had the baptism and then i went to eat with Lety my convert. she made us some food. after that i went and ate pizza with hermana Rica. then i went and ate with hermana Ana and after talked to you and then we went to our converts house to see them and then went home and i have been in the bus station all day today for changes. i have to got back after writeing you to recieve elder roskelly to show him his house and everything. so that is all i have done. tell all the fam i love em in the party. sounds like you are all having fun. But yeah i am pumped to be with elder roskelly he is a funny kid. but me and elder Cornejo get along really well. he is prob my favorite comp because i trained him.haha he is a really good misisonary. he is a really spiritual kid and is really smart. he basicly has learned english on his own just listing. we have had alot of success together. ending this change we will be together 7 and a half months. crazy huh. but all is good here in chilpo. we got alot of new missionarries and we will have a fresh start. Roskelly goes home in 3 months. but love you all lots.
Dec 19 2011
Fam,
Sounds like you are all having a great time in Utah. Tell everyone i said hi and that i love them. This week was alot of fun. We have been busy planning our conference tomorrow. Tomorrow we are going to have our christmas conference with president and everything. it should be way fun. we are going to start with a white elaphant game. then we are going to have a talent show. then we are going to have a dinner then a devotional. it should be legit. this week we had to go with a hermana and buy all the food. so we got all that done. then we are makeing all the programs today and tonight we are cleaning the church and setting up all the tables and stuff. so a pretty busy day today. but all good. today we had the bball tournament it was so fun. we had all the missionaries. it was way fun. the goverment people showed up late but it was fun. we first played as missionarries with our team and then they had a team from chilpancingo that wanted to play our best players and they had prizes and stuff. it was legit. when we played the team they had it was pretty intence. it was no longer missionary mess around ball. it was pretty competative. i had alot of fun. they were all talking trash and the refs were horrible. the first half i was on fire im not going to lie. we went up on them 25 to 20 and the half and they were ticked it was so funny. the second half they did a box and 1 and just put one player on me the whole time wherever i went so i always had open players so i had to dish it and the poor missionarries couldnt make it. we ended up loseing by three. it was pretty intence but alot of fun. i didnt know i could talk trash in spanish. but i did. haha it is pretty fun to talk trash in spanish. haha but it was fun. i won a jersey trophy and a basketball. it was way fun. i was good to have a good compatition. i will send ya a pick. tell tate the final score was 35 32 and i had 21 points. tell him to get on my level. haha but this week we didnt have any baptisms. we got really close with Pedro. Pedro knows it is true and we studdied for him all week to teach him. we had a sweet lesson plan about the holy ghost and to show him that he has felt the holy ghost. we had 3 points that the holy ghost does to help us. first he testifies of the Father and the Son. Second he Tistifies of Truth. Third he santifies those that have been baptized and recieve the gift of the holy ghost. when we talked about how the holy ghost testifies of truth i remembered he told us a story of when his kid was baptized in a church and how he was mad he had to pay the priest or bishop or whatever he was to baptize his kid. he told us that he felt that was wrong. i told him that was the spirit testified the truth. the holy ghost testified to him that that was wrong. I asked him if the Church that Christ established would do something "wrong." he told me no and he felt the spirit. we went to him again on saturday and my comp told him that we pray for him everyday and he started to thing about that on sunday and said that he asked us if we prayed at 8 o clock. we told him yes because thats when we prayed to leave for church. he asked did you pray for me. we said yes. he siad that he was thinking about that and started to think about baptism and he said that he felt something peaceful and he said that he wanted to be baptized and then was like but not right now. not right now. and all this other crap. i hate when people dont follow the answer that they recieve. he knows it is true but he is scared. but i know that there is power in prayer. thats why he felt what he felt. but this next week on christmas we are going to baptize a couple. there names are yadira and oscar. they are way cool. its the best christmas i could recieve. but on christmas i am going to call you guys at like 430 5ish. i am eating with a hermana that can call the united states free on her cell phone. so i will call you guys. ther major still hasnt called me. i will try to call him. i have his number. but thanks for all that you all do for me. Have a merry christmas and have fun with all the fam. Love ya.
Elder Hancock
Sounds like you are all having a great time in Utah. Tell everyone i said hi and that i love them. This week was alot of fun. We have been busy planning our conference tomorrow. Tomorrow we are going to have our christmas conference with president and everything. it should be way fun. we are going to start with a white elaphant game. then we are going to have a talent show. then we are going to have a dinner then a devotional. it should be legit. this week we had to go with a hermana and buy all the food. so we got all that done. then we are makeing all the programs today and tonight we are cleaning the church and setting up all the tables and stuff. so a pretty busy day today. but all good. today we had the bball tournament it was so fun. we had all the missionaries. it was way fun. the goverment people showed up late but it was fun. we first played as missionarries with our team and then they had a team from chilpancingo that wanted to play our best players and they had prizes and stuff. it was legit. when we played the team they had it was pretty intence. it was no longer missionary mess around ball. it was pretty competative. i had alot of fun. they were all talking trash and the refs were horrible. the first half i was on fire im not going to lie. we went up on them 25 to 20 and the half and they were ticked it was so funny. the second half they did a box and 1 and just put one player on me the whole time wherever i went so i always had open players so i had to dish it and the poor missionarries couldnt make it. we ended up loseing by three. it was pretty intence but alot of fun. i didnt know i could talk trash in spanish. but i did. haha it is pretty fun to talk trash in spanish. haha but it was fun. i won a jersey trophy and a basketball. it was way fun. i was good to have a good compatition. i will send ya a pick. tell tate the final score was 35 32 and i had 21 points. tell him to get on my level. haha but this week we didnt have any baptisms. we got really close with Pedro. Pedro knows it is true and we studdied for him all week to teach him. we had a sweet lesson plan about the holy ghost and to show him that he has felt the holy ghost. we had 3 points that the holy ghost does to help us. first he testifies of the Father and the Son. Second he Tistifies of Truth. Third he santifies those that have been baptized and recieve the gift of the holy ghost. when we talked about how the holy ghost testifies of truth i remembered he told us a story of when his kid was baptized in a church and how he was mad he had to pay the priest or bishop or whatever he was to baptize his kid. he told us that he felt that was wrong. i told him that was the spirit testified the truth. the holy ghost testified to him that that was wrong. I asked him if the Church that Christ established would do something "wrong." he told me no and he felt the spirit. we went to him again on saturday and my comp told him that we pray for him everyday and he started to thing about that on sunday and said that he asked us if we prayed at 8 o clock. we told him yes because thats when we prayed to leave for church. he asked did you pray for me. we said yes. he siad that he was thinking about that and started to think about baptism and he said that he felt something peaceful and he said that he wanted to be baptized and then was like but not right now. not right now. and all this other crap. i hate when people dont follow the answer that they recieve. he knows it is true but he is scared. but i know that there is power in prayer. thats why he felt what he felt. but this next week on christmas we are going to baptize a couple. there names are yadira and oscar. they are way cool. its the best christmas i could recieve. but on christmas i am going to call you guys at like 430 5ish. i am eating with a hermana that can call the united states free on her cell phone. so i will call you guys. ther major still hasnt called me. i will try to call him. i have his number. but thanks for all that you all do for me. Have a merry christmas and have fun with all the fam. Love ya.
Elder Hancock
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