Hey fam,
Yesterday for easter was just a normal sunday. Easter here is a little different but we ate really good. A hermana gave us a bunch of food. but it was a normal sunday. We visited the family that we are teaching and taught them the The sabbath day because they didnt go to church. We knew the wife wasnt going to go but the rest of the family could of gone. Mayte the wife is the one that makes everyone go and she didnt go because she had to work. We taught them the important of commandments and she told us that she was thinking about quiting her work not to work on sundays. she just works on sundays every 3rd week or so but thats what she told us. She says that she sees a different in her week when she goes and when she doesnt go. She is really cool. We just have to animate the rest of the family. Her daughters are really cool as well. Her husband is really funny. He likes to joke around. He says my name really funny and We know that he is interested but he really doesnt like to show it. We talk about eternal families and I know he really likes it but tries to shrug it off making a joke. but through the example of his wife he will strart to come around. it will just take a little more time with him. but this week it is possible that Mayte and her daughter can get baptized this week. so we are going to work hard for that to help them be ready for this week. Oh also this week when we were teaching them the plan os salvation their old preacher from the christian church came over and got all ofended that they were listning to us. He came in and started to ask us a bunch of questions. He is a apostle of the christian church or something like that. He came in and and asked us what we teach and all this stuff. we said the gospel of christ and he was like no you dont. You use the book of mormon that isnt the gospel of christ. he said show me a scripture in the book of mormon that talks about how we can be saved. I was like that is easy i went to 3rd nefi 11 where christ teaches us exactly what we need to do to be saved. he was like huuuuugh. he didnt know what to say and then said i am jelous that you guys are teaching my sheep and confusing them. I told him first of all they are not your sheep they a Christs sheep. second of all they invited us in their house and who are you to kick us out. haha it was a fun conversation. in the end he wanted a book of mormon to read. so that was good. Mayte told us as a leader in a christian church she doesnt like how he lives his life and all kinds of stuff and told us she feels different when we come and likes the way we explain everything to her and her family. but there will always be oposition in all things. haha so that was our fun experience of the week. Here in Lacero there are alot of poeple that go to this christian church and they have their prophet and everthing. this prophet has a television program and everything. There are also alot of Jehovas witnesses here. They are the ones that arent willing to listn to anything. They thing they know everthing in the bible but their bible has been changed around that they cant even call it a bible. its called something like the new translation of the holy scriptures or something like that. It was funny this week me and my comp found a lady and her husband. the lady has studied a year with the jehovas witnesses and the husband is catholic. She couldnt believe in a modern day prophet and in modern day miracles. We were teaching them the apostia and it is really easy to teach the apostacy with the bible that they have because they have taken out scriptures. We were takling about how christ established his church and how he healed people and how he gave the authority to his apostles so that they could do the same. My comp shared the story that there was one time the apostles couldnt cast out a devil of someone and christ could and we aked her why couldnt they if christ gave them the authority and we told her the answer is in Matthew 17: 21 and it says that christ fasted and they didnt thats why christ could and they couldnt and we told her to read the verse and it wasnt there in her bible because it is the bible of the TJs and that scripture isnt there because they dont believe in fasting. She wasnt understanding the apostacia so we used her own bible to show her how after the apostacy people started to take and add things to the bible for their own convinience. It was pretty funny but she understood the apostacy so that was good. haha So this has been good. We are workin hard and it was fun to go to curenavaca and see everyone. President just taked to us about his experience in Salt Lake and when they set him appart as a seventy. We just talked about that the whole time. It was really neat to learn about the organization of the church and how we are all in good hands. He is in the 7th quorum of the seventy and he is over Argentina, Uraguay, Brazil and other places close to there. President Holland set him apart. it was really neat. i have it all written down of how that all works and stuff. it was cool to learn. I got my package so thank you. i love my new nike pants. if i knew they excisted before i left i would of just bought pure nike pants. they are way confy. thanks. The now knives are really cool. I would send pres the holiness to the lord knife i like that one. Everthing is really cool. keep up the good work. keep me posted on the academy. Tell tate and tiesh congrats. Mom you and tiesh srcreaming reminded me of the good old days. haha the comment of gramps made me laugh about President Oboma. Gramps is right. haha but i love you lots and just want yall to know that i know that Jesus died for us and the great news that gives us all peace is that he resurected and that he lives. Thanks to him we will all resurect and be with our love ones once again. Every loss that we have had in this life will be restored to us in the life to come thanks to him. We owe eveything to him. The knollage we have that he lives gives us peace. Imagine the peace we can have helping those that dont know that he lives. Imagine the joy and peace they are missiog not knowing that he lives and they can see a loved one once agian. For this purpose we need to open our mouths and help those that dont know. Thanks for everthing. love ya
Elder Hancock
Baptisms
Sunday, April 15, 2012
April 2 2012
Fam,
Sounds like everyone is doing good. Tate congrats on breaking the record in pole vault. i saw the video it was pretty sweet. Keep up the good work bro. Teisha good job on the tennis match. keep up the good work. This week was a good work. Conference week is always a good week. We had to drop abdiel because he isnt progressing. He knows it is true and knows that he should be baptized but his family is a major influence and he doesnt want to do it. It is sad but we had to drop him. But we have been teaching a family of 7. At first we talked to their kids but this week we were able to teach the whole family which was good. We have taught the mom but we have never taught the dad. we were able to teach him this week. He told me you have 5 min to teach me your lesson. i was like ok and i timed it and everything. i taught the resaration in 5 min and i think he was pretty shocked after. haha it was funny. he is a funny guy. He likes sports so i was able to teach the restauration easy with an example of a team. But we taught them twice this week and they all went to the last session of conference. All 7 of them went which was good. Also a Teresa went this week with her daughter and a guy named Pio went. So we had 10 investigators go to conference so that was a blessing. I really liked conference. i was bumed that i wasnt able to see the priesthood session but i will watch it on internet to see the talks. What happened is all the priesthood went to see the preisthood session in Zihuatanejo that is like a hour and a half away. We thought that we could stay here and watch it but they turned off the satalite so i have to watch it on internet. but all is good. I really liked the talks of Elder Holland, Elder Erying. I also liked the talk of It was worth it talking about missionary work. i forgot the guys name that gave it. I liked Elders Perrys talk on the book of mormon and Elder Ballards talk on the family. Our investigators were there to hear those talks so that was good. But i really liked conference. We have a family night with the family that we are teaching tonight. The good thing is is that a counselor in the stake presidencey lives right in front of this family. we are going to teach them with this family. So all is good here in Lazero. This week we are going to Cuernavaca on Wednesday. We leave tuesday in the night. i should get the package there and be able to see all the knives. All the missionaries went nuts when they called pres as a general authority. that was funny. He is a really good guy i knew he was going to be a general authority but that was pretty fast. haha the 17th we go to acapulco again which will be fun. but that is pretty much what went on this week. The new misssionarries here are good. They are all really good missionaries. but love ya all and keep up the good work. Oh and i need the return date as soon as possible the mission offices just called me and want to know the day so they can buy the plane tickett. They already want to buy my plane tickett crazy hugh. haha
Love, Elder Hancock
Sounds like everyone is doing good. Tate congrats on breaking the record in pole vault. i saw the video it was pretty sweet. Keep up the good work bro. Teisha good job on the tennis match. keep up the good work. This week was a good work. Conference week is always a good week. We had to drop abdiel because he isnt progressing. He knows it is true and knows that he should be baptized but his family is a major influence and he doesnt want to do it. It is sad but we had to drop him. But we have been teaching a family of 7. At first we talked to their kids but this week we were able to teach the whole family which was good. We have taught the mom but we have never taught the dad. we were able to teach him this week. He told me you have 5 min to teach me your lesson. i was like ok and i timed it and everything. i taught the resaration in 5 min and i think he was pretty shocked after. haha it was funny. he is a funny guy. He likes sports so i was able to teach the restauration easy with an example of a team. But we taught them twice this week and they all went to the last session of conference. All 7 of them went which was good. Also a Teresa went this week with her daughter and a guy named Pio went. So we had 10 investigators go to conference so that was a blessing. I really liked conference. i was bumed that i wasnt able to see the priesthood session but i will watch it on internet to see the talks. What happened is all the priesthood went to see the preisthood session in Zihuatanejo that is like a hour and a half away. We thought that we could stay here and watch it but they turned off the satalite so i have to watch it on internet. but all is good. I really liked the talks of Elder Holland, Elder Erying. I also liked the talk of It was worth it talking about missionary work. i forgot the guys name that gave it. I liked Elders Perrys talk on the book of mormon and Elder Ballards talk on the family. Our investigators were there to hear those talks so that was good. But i really liked conference. We have a family night with the family that we are teaching tonight. The good thing is is that a counselor in the stake presidencey lives right in front of this family. we are going to teach them with this family. So all is good here in Lazero. This week we are going to Cuernavaca on Wednesday. We leave tuesday in the night. i should get the package there and be able to see all the knives. All the missionaries went nuts when they called pres as a general authority. that was funny. He is a really good guy i knew he was going to be a general authority but that was pretty fast. haha the 17th we go to acapulco again which will be fun. but that is pretty much what went on this week. The new misssionarries here are good. They are all really good missionaries. but love ya all and keep up the good work. Oh and i need the return date as soon as possible the mission offices just called me and want to know the day so they can buy the plane tickett. They already want to buy my plane tickett crazy hugh. haha
Love, Elder Hancock
March 26 2012
What up fam,
This week was a good week. First of all i didnt feel anything in the earthquake. We had no clue that there was one untill someone told us that there was one. So all is good dont worry. And no i havent heard anything about the visit of the pope. Hasnt effected us at all. This week Jorge Luis got baptized this week. It was a really cool baptism. This guy is really cool. He was the one that almost read the entire book of mormon in one day. After his baptism he told me that he wants to go on a mission. He is a really cool kid. He is from a place called Morelia it is the capital of Michoacan and his family is huge. He doesnt have any support from his family. He is studying and working here alone. He lives with some friends from his home and that is it. He told us he has been on his own almost all his life. He doesnt know his mom. she left him after he was born. Kinda sad but he is excited to be in the church. He is really smart. He already knows alot more than the members. It was our miracle of the month. This week we taught abdiel how to fast he is 16 years old and really wants to be baptised so we fasted with him so his mom would give him permision and the day we fasted for the first time we were able to talk to his mom. We talked to her for like an hour. she had alot of questions and i just told her straight up that her son is ready to be baptised and it is something that will bless his life. She said that they were going to talk about it as a family and they still havent talked about it. so we hope that they can talk about it this week. But fasting works since i have been her we have never been able to talk to her. But all is good with the investigators. We found another cool family this week. it was on thursday and alot of our appointments fell and to be honest we didnt want to do anything but we felt we should contact before we went to look for another person. so we contacted for like 15 min and found this lady named Teresa. She and her 12 year old kid went to church this week. So that was good. So never give up. Mom it is true what you said about God making us suffer to learn what he wants us to learn and so that we BUILD CARACTER. HAHA like you and dad always told me. but all is good her in Barrio Palmas. This week in church they called the new bishop. He is a really cool guy. we are excited to work with him and the new bishopric. so there have been some good changes in the word and we are excited to work with all the new leaders. The new bishop is bishop Benjamin Elizea. He is a real sharp guy. Also this week we are pumped for general conference as well. i think Candies mom will be able to go and see it live. she is in utah right now for the graduation of her son. he is graduating byu and she is there for that. But it would be nice to know the date when i have to go to the academy so i put you in charge mom to get that done. haha also pres just sent us a message that we are going back to acapulco for another conference. Elder Walter F. Gonzalez from the seventy is coming to speak. who knows why we are having all these conferences. but its all good with me. i love going to acapulco. Im going to buy a house in Acapulco on the beach useing the money from the new buisness. haha but i really like the cards. they look really good. I hop everthing goes good. They are going to be ready for general conference? crazy. But this upcoming month i should be going to the temple the last week of April and it will be in the mexico city temple. i am pumped for that i havent been in the temple forever so that will be fun. Sounds like Tiesha and Tate are doing good. Tate in Track and teish in tennis. Keep up the good work. I got a letter form gramps this week. Tell him thankyou and that i love him. I love you all lots.
Love, Elder Hancock
This week was a good week. First of all i didnt feel anything in the earthquake. We had no clue that there was one untill someone told us that there was one. So all is good dont worry. And no i havent heard anything about the visit of the pope. Hasnt effected us at all. This week Jorge Luis got baptized this week. It was a really cool baptism. This guy is really cool. He was the one that almost read the entire book of mormon in one day. After his baptism he told me that he wants to go on a mission. He is a really cool kid. He is from a place called Morelia it is the capital of Michoacan and his family is huge. He doesnt have any support from his family. He is studying and working here alone. He lives with some friends from his home and that is it. He told us he has been on his own almost all his life. He doesnt know his mom. she left him after he was born. Kinda sad but he is excited to be in the church. He is really smart. He already knows alot more than the members. It was our miracle of the month. This week we taught abdiel how to fast he is 16 years old and really wants to be baptised so we fasted with him so his mom would give him permision and the day we fasted for the first time we were able to talk to his mom. We talked to her for like an hour. she had alot of questions and i just told her straight up that her son is ready to be baptised and it is something that will bless his life. She said that they were going to talk about it as a family and they still havent talked about it. so we hope that they can talk about it this week. But fasting works since i have been her we have never been able to talk to her. But all is good with the investigators. We found another cool family this week. it was on thursday and alot of our appointments fell and to be honest we didnt want to do anything but we felt we should contact before we went to look for another person. so we contacted for like 15 min and found this lady named Teresa. She and her 12 year old kid went to church this week. So that was good. So never give up. Mom it is true what you said about God making us suffer to learn what he wants us to learn and so that we BUILD CARACTER. HAHA like you and dad always told me. but all is good her in Barrio Palmas. This week in church they called the new bishop. He is a really cool guy. we are excited to work with him and the new bishopric. so there have been some good changes in the word and we are excited to work with all the new leaders. The new bishop is bishop Benjamin Elizea. He is a real sharp guy. Also this week we are pumped for general conference as well. i think Candies mom will be able to go and see it live. she is in utah right now for the graduation of her son. he is graduating byu and she is there for that. But it would be nice to know the date when i have to go to the academy so i put you in charge mom to get that done. haha also pres just sent us a message that we are going back to acapulco for another conference. Elder Walter F. Gonzalez from the seventy is coming to speak. who knows why we are having all these conferences. but its all good with me. i love going to acapulco. Im going to buy a house in Acapulco on the beach useing the money from the new buisness. haha but i really like the cards. they look really good. I hop everthing goes good. They are going to be ready for general conference? crazy. But this upcoming month i should be going to the temple the last week of April and it will be in the mexico city temple. i am pumped for that i havent been in the temple forever so that will be fun. Sounds like Tiesha and Tate are doing good. Tate in Track and teish in tennis. Keep up the good work. I got a letter form gramps this week. Tell him thankyou and that i love him. I love you all lots.
Love, Elder Hancock
March 19 2012
Fam,
This week was a good week we worked really hard to baptize this week. but at the end it didnt happen. we have 2 teenagers that are really legit. They know everything and want to get baptized but the mom still hasnt given them permision and she doesnt want to talk to us. we found out why this week. We had a plan to figure out why. when we teach them there are usually alot of teenagers there and also his brothers are there and stuff so it is hard to just talk to him and find our whats up. so what I did. was i knew that they all liked to play football. so what i did was i challenged his brothers and cousins to a game of soccer. there was a court there close so i played soccer with them and my comp talked to him alone while we were playing. he talked to him on the side and found out the real problem. He told his mom that his mom worships death. it sounds weird in english but here in Mexico there is a Saint called the death. it is called La Santa Muerte. And she prays to this Saint and has seen miracles and stuff from this Saint. And he thinks that for that she doesnt want to talk to us and hasnt given him permision. He told us this week that when he was praying about baptism and how he wanted to be baptised that he felt something that he has never felt before. it was way cool. we just need to pray hard this week that she gives him permison. He just needs to explain to her about his prayer and i think she will give him permision. he is 16 and his brother is 17. so thats whats up with them. This week we found this one guy that is way cool. He is 22 years old and contacted the missionarries and he lives in our area. He is 22 years old and just moved here to study and work. We taught him on Wendesday the Restauration and the book of mormon and left him 3 Nephi 11 to read. We came back on Thursday and he read almost all the book of mormon. He read up to 3 Nephi 11 in one day. He prayed and had a dream that he lost the book of mormon and that he was really fustrated that he couldnt find it and was really worried. He told us that he knows the book is true because if it wasnt true he wouldnt of been so fustrated to lose it. he is way cool he went to church and everthing. he should be able to get baptised this week becuase he has progressed so fast. That was a miracle of the week. Also this week we taught a lady named Mayte. We have been teachin her daughter and her son in law. This week we were lookin for them and she came to the door and we have always invited her but she never listned. this time she just opened up on the door step and started to tell me about all these problems that are happening in her family and all this stuff. she said that she has been going to a christian church named the comunity of god. it is a christian church. she and her family have been going there for 2 years and she told us that she hasnt seen any change in her life going to this church and she was confused about why there are a bunch of churches and everthing. so it was really easy to teach her and she really liked the lesson and she broght her whole family to church this week. 5 of them went this week. so that was really cool. so we are starting to see the fruits of the hard work that we are doing. But i go back to Cuernavaca in like week and a half. this week we had changes but me and my comp are still together. he only has one more change that me here. i think we will finish together here. Our 2 district leaders are going home they finished there mission so we are going to have some new missionaries in the zone. Also Elder Roskelly is done. he goes home on Wednesday i think. Crazy hugh. time flys. but that would be nice to know when i go back to the Academy so i can tell Pres. I have no idea about the medical papers. Hopefully you can figure that all out. good luck. haha but that is good that tim came over. i love that kid. he is still huge. there is no one like that here in mexico. haha but last pday we went to Ixtapa. look it up it is really pretty. we played football on the beach. but love you all. keep up the good work. love elder hancock
This week was a good week we worked really hard to baptize this week. but at the end it didnt happen. we have 2 teenagers that are really legit. They know everything and want to get baptized but the mom still hasnt given them permision and she doesnt want to talk to us. we found out why this week. We had a plan to figure out why. when we teach them there are usually alot of teenagers there and also his brothers are there and stuff so it is hard to just talk to him and find our whats up. so what I did. was i knew that they all liked to play football. so what i did was i challenged his brothers and cousins to a game of soccer. there was a court there close so i played soccer with them and my comp talked to him alone while we were playing. he talked to him on the side and found out the real problem. He told his mom that his mom worships death. it sounds weird in english but here in Mexico there is a Saint called the death. it is called La Santa Muerte. And she prays to this Saint and has seen miracles and stuff from this Saint. And he thinks that for that she doesnt want to talk to us and hasnt given him permision. He told us this week that when he was praying about baptism and how he wanted to be baptised that he felt something that he has never felt before. it was way cool. we just need to pray hard this week that she gives him permison. He just needs to explain to her about his prayer and i think she will give him permision. he is 16 and his brother is 17. so thats whats up with them. This week we found this one guy that is way cool. He is 22 years old and contacted the missionarries and he lives in our area. He is 22 years old and just moved here to study and work. We taught him on Wendesday the Restauration and the book of mormon and left him 3 Nephi 11 to read. We came back on Thursday and he read almost all the book of mormon. He read up to 3 Nephi 11 in one day. He prayed and had a dream that he lost the book of mormon and that he was really fustrated that he couldnt find it and was really worried. He told us that he knows the book is true because if it wasnt true he wouldnt of been so fustrated to lose it. he is way cool he went to church and everthing. he should be able to get baptised this week becuase he has progressed so fast. That was a miracle of the week. Also this week we taught a lady named Mayte. We have been teachin her daughter and her son in law. This week we were lookin for them and she came to the door and we have always invited her but she never listned. this time she just opened up on the door step and started to tell me about all these problems that are happening in her family and all this stuff. she said that she has been going to a christian church named the comunity of god. it is a christian church. she and her family have been going there for 2 years and she told us that she hasnt seen any change in her life going to this church and she was confused about why there are a bunch of churches and everthing. so it was really easy to teach her and she really liked the lesson and she broght her whole family to church this week. 5 of them went this week. so that was really cool. so we are starting to see the fruits of the hard work that we are doing. But i go back to Cuernavaca in like week and a half. this week we had changes but me and my comp are still together. he only has one more change that me here. i think we will finish together here. Our 2 district leaders are going home they finished there mission so we are going to have some new missionaries in the zone. Also Elder Roskelly is done. he goes home on Wednesday i think. Crazy hugh. time flys. but that would be nice to know when i go back to the Academy so i can tell Pres. I have no idea about the medical papers. Hopefully you can figure that all out. good luck. haha but that is good that tim came over. i love that kid. he is still huge. there is no one like that here in mexico. haha but last pday we went to Ixtapa. look it up it is really pretty. we played football on the beach. but love you all. keep up the good work. love elder hancock
March 12 2012
Fam,
Sounds like i should of never told you all waht happened. it wasnt that bad. After they took the money and stuff we got on the bus and just waited till the sun came up. i fell asleep. haha and no they didnt take my cards or anything. they just took money. the day that it happened was Thursday at 1:30 in the morning. but all is good dont worry about me. i didnt want to tell you to worry. Everything is fine. I have taken out money to buy food. and then no you dont need to pay pres back. The money came from the mission. The plans for the temple is i am going to go in April with her. she cant go this month. so i am going to go in April with her to the temple. it will be way fun. i am excited. but i wont go with elder roskelly. he is already with his parents. Crazy hugh. he is finished with his mission. his parents are already here. we have changes next month. but i know that i am going in April to the temple because this week we had a conference in Acapulco in Costa Azul my old area where i was born. We had a conference with elder Tenordio from the seventy. It was really good. he is a really cool guy. He talked about 3 things that someone has to do to be successful. First is that someone has to Work. Second someone has to be focused. Third is someone has to be Happy. It was a really good talk. He gave examples of how in is work one of his bosses told him it is too bad you dont know engish because you could make double the money and go to new york every month. Right there he was determined to learn english. He took a course for 2 weeks to learn english. 9 hours in the school and 9 hours listning tapes at this house. he did it everyday for 2 weeks. and went to his boss and just starting repiting all the stuff he learned. he said he didnt give his boss the chance to ask questions he walked in and said everything he learned and the boss gave him his certificate that he spoke english. it was a funny story. He talked about prayer as well and we read together. Genesis 24:1-27 where Abraham comands his servant to find a wife for his son. Before that he shared the scripture in 2 Nephi 25:23 that says we have to do everything in our part and the lord will do the rest. Despues de hacer cuanto Podamos. i like it better in spanish. but knoing that he told the story of this servant and how he prayed and did everything he could to find the wife for Abrahams son. The servant had a plan and presented his plan to the Lord through prayer. He had planned to go to the well because that is where all the daughters went to get water for the family. He had planned that the wife that would be right for isac would give water to him and his camels. also he brought a bunch of gold and stuff to please the family. So elder Tenordio was trying to teach us that we have to do everything we can and the lord will give us what we ask him after we do all that we can. Also the servant was explicit and exact when he told the lord how he wanted to know if the wife was the right one. He shared an experience when he was going to teach a mission that the mission president forgot to book a room for him in a Hotel and it was halloween night. So there was no way to get another room. So he told the mission pres not to worry about it htat he would find a room. He started to pray and said. Heavenly Father i dont have a room to stay the night. it isnt my fault it the is mission presidents fault so i need your help. I am going to go to this hotel at 9:30 and ask a worker if there is a room. they are going to tell me no. i am going to tell them that i am going to eat for an hour and at 10:30 i am going to come back and somene will leave at that time and i can take that room. that was his prayer and he did exactley that and when he came back at 10:30 the front desk got a call exactly at 10:30 and he got his room. He told us that The Lord likes details and if we do our part with faith the lord will do the rest. i really liked that. I need to be better at that. i need to pray for things more specifictly. but it was a really good conference i learned alot. After i was able to go to my old area and visit alot of my converts. it was really good to see them all. i ate with Karla the one that is going to the temple. it was good to see her and her family. it was fun to be back in Acapulco. we got back Sunday late in the night and went to church. We should be able to baptize this week. we have been working hard. we found a cool family yesterday as well. So this week was a good week. Hermana Tere told me we ate burgers at the same time as well. but i know your burger was alot better than mine. I miss mighty fine. but love ya and have a great week. that is awsome that all went good with my new buisness. haha
Love, Elder Hancock
Sounds like i should of never told you all waht happened. it wasnt that bad. After they took the money and stuff we got on the bus and just waited till the sun came up. i fell asleep. haha and no they didnt take my cards or anything. they just took money. the day that it happened was Thursday at 1:30 in the morning. but all is good dont worry about me. i didnt want to tell you to worry. Everything is fine. I have taken out money to buy food. and then no you dont need to pay pres back. The money came from the mission. The plans for the temple is i am going to go in April with her. she cant go this month. so i am going to go in April with her to the temple. it will be way fun. i am excited. but i wont go with elder roskelly. he is already with his parents. Crazy hugh. he is finished with his mission. his parents are already here. we have changes next month. but i know that i am going in April to the temple because this week we had a conference in Acapulco in Costa Azul my old area where i was born. We had a conference with elder Tenordio from the seventy. It was really good. he is a really cool guy. He talked about 3 things that someone has to do to be successful. First is that someone has to Work. Second someone has to be focused. Third is someone has to be Happy. It was a really good talk. He gave examples of how in is work one of his bosses told him it is too bad you dont know engish because you could make double the money and go to new york every month. Right there he was determined to learn english. He took a course for 2 weeks to learn english. 9 hours in the school and 9 hours listning tapes at this house. he did it everyday for 2 weeks. and went to his boss and just starting repiting all the stuff he learned. he said he didnt give his boss the chance to ask questions he walked in and said everything he learned and the boss gave him his certificate that he spoke english. it was a funny story. He talked about prayer as well and we read together. Genesis 24:1-27 where Abraham comands his servant to find a wife for his son. Before that he shared the scripture in 2 Nephi 25:23 that says we have to do everything in our part and the lord will do the rest. Despues de hacer cuanto Podamos. i like it better in spanish. but knoing that he told the story of this servant and how he prayed and did everything he could to find the wife for Abrahams son. The servant had a plan and presented his plan to the Lord through prayer. He had planned to go to the well because that is where all the daughters went to get water for the family. He had planned that the wife that would be right for isac would give water to him and his camels. also he brought a bunch of gold and stuff to please the family. So elder Tenordio was trying to teach us that we have to do everything we can and the lord will give us what we ask him after we do all that we can. Also the servant was explicit and exact when he told the lord how he wanted to know if the wife was the right one. He shared an experience when he was going to teach a mission that the mission president forgot to book a room for him in a Hotel and it was halloween night. So there was no way to get another room. So he told the mission pres not to worry about it htat he would find a room. He started to pray and said. Heavenly Father i dont have a room to stay the night. it isnt my fault it the is mission presidents fault so i need your help. I am going to go to this hotel at 9:30 and ask a worker if there is a room. they are going to tell me no. i am going to tell them that i am going to eat for an hour and at 10:30 i am going to come back and somene will leave at that time and i can take that room. that was his prayer and he did exactley that and when he came back at 10:30 the front desk got a call exactly at 10:30 and he got his room. He told us that The Lord likes details and if we do our part with faith the lord will do the rest. i really liked that. I need to be better at that. i need to pray for things more specifictly. but it was a really good conference i learned alot. After i was able to go to my old area and visit alot of my converts. it was really good to see them all. i ate with Karla the one that is going to the temple. it was good to see her and her family. it was fun to be back in Acapulco. we got back Sunday late in the night and went to church. We should be able to baptize this week. we have been working hard. we found a cool family yesterday as well. So this week was a good week. Hermana Tere told me we ate burgers at the same time as well. but i know your burger was alot better than mine. I miss mighty fine. but love ya and have a great week. that is awsome that all went good with my new buisness. haha
Love, Elder Hancock
Monday, February 27, 2012
Feb 27 2012
Fam,
Sounds like everyone is good besides poor Tiesha. Sorry Teisha but that made me laugh. haha but i hope all goes well. Know you know how Grandpa Tuckett feels haha. You two are hearing buddies. haha but this week was a good week. we baptized Jose Guadalupe this week. he is 19 years old. He is a really cool kid. it was a good baptism. he is from the costa chica were all the black slaves settled and lived. He isnt quite black but he could grow a fro. haha i have baptised alot of people from the costa chica. but it was a good week. we are working had and finding new families. they just need to go to church. We are going to really focus on the church this week. with the members and our investigators. there are alot of inactive families in our area. So this week we are going to visit alot of the member familes this week. but me and my comp are good. We are working good together. My comp is way funny. it has been fun. i hope that we finish together. I talked to elder roskelly this week we should be going to the temple in the next 2 weeks which will be fun. Our investigator Karla from acapulco is going to the temple. i think you accepted her on facebook. she knows english so you could talk to her if you want. she is really cool. in 2 weeks elder roskellys parents are coming to pick him up in mexico. so he thinks that we are going to go when his parents come. so i am pumped to go to the temple. it should be fun. On mondays i wash my cloths and then we go to internet then we eat at the stakes presidents house. he is way cool. then today before distirct meeting i am going to throw the football around at the church because if i dont play something i will kill someone. haha and then have the district meeting and then we are going to have a family night. that is pretty much my pday. i sent you a bunch of pictures so i hope your happy. haha but this week we are going to work hard with the people we could baptize. we have a few possabilites we just need to work hard this week with them. the zone is doing good. Mom i havent thought about any of that stuff. i have no clue what i am going to study. ill worry about that when i get home. on sunday we ate with Hna Tere the mom of candy and she is good. she is still a little shell shocked from the accident she asked us to give her a blessing and we did. she is a really nice lady. but you can tell candy and chris that she is doing good. but i love you lots. keep up the good work.
Love, Elder Hancock
Sounds like everyone is good besides poor Tiesha. Sorry Teisha but that made me laugh. haha but i hope all goes well. Know you know how Grandpa Tuckett feels haha. You two are hearing buddies. haha but this week was a good week. we baptized Jose Guadalupe this week. he is 19 years old. He is a really cool kid. it was a good baptism. he is from the costa chica were all the black slaves settled and lived. He isnt quite black but he could grow a fro. haha i have baptised alot of people from the costa chica. but it was a good week. we are working had and finding new families. they just need to go to church. We are going to really focus on the church this week. with the members and our investigators. there are alot of inactive families in our area. So this week we are going to visit alot of the member familes this week. but me and my comp are good. We are working good together. My comp is way funny. it has been fun. i hope that we finish together. I talked to elder roskelly this week we should be going to the temple in the next 2 weeks which will be fun. Our investigator Karla from acapulco is going to the temple. i think you accepted her on facebook. she knows english so you could talk to her if you want. she is really cool. in 2 weeks elder roskellys parents are coming to pick him up in mexico. so he thinks that we are going to go when his parents come. so i am pumped to go to the temple. it should be fun. On mondays i wash my cloths and then we go to internet then we eat at the stakes presidents house. he is way cool. then today before distirct meeting i am going to throw the football around at the church because if i dont play something i will kill someone. haha and then have the district meeting and then we are going to have a family night. that is pretty much my pday. i sent you a bunch of pictures so i hope your happy. haha but this week we are going to work hard with the people we could baptize. we have a few possabilites we just need to work hard this week with them. the zone is doing good. Mom i havent thought about any of that stuff. i have no clue what i am going to study. ill worry about that when i get home. on sunday we ate with Hna Tere the mom of candy and she is good. she is still a little shell shocked from the accident she asked us to give her a blessing and we did. she is a really nice lady. but you can tell candy and chris that she is doing good. but i love you lots. keep up the good work.
Love, Elder Hancock
Feb 20 2012
Fam,
Sounds like everyone is doing good. That is nuts that everyone is getting married. Everyone is getting old. haha but to answer your question about the sabeth day that is what they do here in mexico. i have planched alot of people about it but they just do it. Every meal they need fresh tortillas and everyone of them buys there tortillas on sunday. Sad but that is what they do. The zone conference went good this week. we were able to get everything planned. We tauht about helping the missinoaries bring more people to church. We used a pretty cool example to teach the importance of going to church. we filled up a glass of water and said that the water is like us when we were baptized we were pure and clean like the water. but clearly we arent perfect after baptism and we sin. and we had Grape Juice to represent sin. so we pored grape juice in the water and and makes the water dirty. So none of us wants to return to god dirty so that is why he camands us that we go to church to portake of the sacrament. when we partake of the sacrament we are clean again. so we pored clorine in the water and it made the water clear again. so that is the blessing we recieve each week when we partake of the sacrament. so we can be clean each and every week when we partake of the sacrament. we have taught that example alot here and it works. Mexicans like to see example and stuff. haha Pres talked about the book of mormon. it was really good. it was a good conference. this week me and my comp baptised Pedro. He was a old convert and we visited him when i got here and his mom and sister got baptised like 5 months ago and he never did. He has liked to party with his friends and hasnt wanted to change. one day we gave him Alma 5 to read and he read it and understood it pretty well. we talked about that with him with the same example of the glass of water but using it as baptism to wash us clean of our sins. and sence then he has been really cool and wanted to be batised and got baptised this week. he is 17. he wanted a picture of teisha. haha he is a funny kid. The 2 others we were going to baptise didnt get permision from their mom. she wants them to wait a little longer. they will get baptised this upcoming month. We have another baptism this week his name is Jose. he is 19 years old. his brother got baptised like a year ago and we have been teaching him. He has recieved an answer and everything. He is a really cool kid. He is one that i think will serve a mission. He has been reading the book of mormon and is really interested. So the work is going good her. Contacting here is really affective. THere are alot of people that are willing ot listn. Next month they are changing the ward boundries so we will have more families in the ward to visit. so all is good here. i did get the package. thanks for everythings. the pants fit perfectly. thanks. the tools work as well. so all is good. Keep up the good work and if you want to help our the missionaries you need to ask your neighbors or friends if they want to listn to the missionaries and if they say yes you have a reference. alof of times members talk about he gospel but forget the part to ask if they want to listn to misionaries. they forget that the misionaries are the ones called to teach and baptise. it is good to teach the gospel to your friends but if you dont invite them to listn to misionaries they will never get baptised. So something you and the fam can do better is when you have family nights and stuff with freinds invite the missionaries and they will do the rest if they know what they are doing. haha that is something i didnt know when i invited my friends and stuff to church activities and family home evenings. i never invited them to listn to the missionaris and that is whay they havent been baptised. so when you have friends and people over for family nights and stuff like that you need to involve the missionaries. and then you will see fruits from missionary work. but i love you all.
Elder Hancock
Sounds like everyone is doing good. That is nuts that everyone is getting married. Everyone is getting old. haha but to answer your question about the sabeth day that is what they do here in mexico. i have planched alot of people about it but they just do it. Every meal they need fresh tortillas and everyone of them buys there tortillas on sunday. Sad but that is what they do. The zone conference went good this week. we were able to get everything planned. We tauht about helping the missinoaries bring more people to church. We used a pretty cool example to teach the importance of going to church. we filled up a glass of water and said that the water is like us when we were baptized we were pure and clean like the water. but clearly we arent perfect after baptism and we sin. and we had Grape Juice to represent sin. so we pored grape juice in the water and and makes the water dirty. So none of us wants to return to god dirty so that is why he camands us that we go to church to portake of the sacrament. when we partake of the sacrament we are clean again. so we pored clorine in the water and it made the water clear again. so that is the blessing we recieve each week when we partake of the sacrament. so we can be clean each and every week when we partake of the sacrament. we have taught that example alot here and it works. Mexicans like to see example and stuff. haha Pres talked about the book of mormon. it was really good. it was a good conference. this week me and my comp baptised Pedro. He was a old convert and we visited him when i got here and his mom and sister got baptised like 5 months ago and he never did. He has liked to party with his friends and hasnt wanted to change. one day we gave him Alma 5 to read and he read it and understood it pretty well. we talked about that with him with the same example of the glass of water but using it as baptism to wash us clean of our sins. and sence then he has been really cool and wanted to be batised and got baptised this week. he is 17. he wanted a picture of teisha. haha he is a funny kid. The 2 others we were going to baptise didnt get permision from their mom. she wants them to wait a little longer. they will get baptised this upcoming month. We have another baptism this week his name is Jose. he is 19 years old. his brother got baptised like a year ago and we have been teaching him. He has recieved an answer and everything. He is a really cool kid. He is one that i think will serve a mission. He has been reading the book of mormon and is really interested. So the work is going good her. Contacting here is really affective. THere are alot of people that are willing ot listn. Next month they are changing the ward boundries so we will have more families in the ward to visit. so all is good here. i did get the package. thanks for everythings. the pants fit perfectly. thanks. the tools work as well. so all is good. Keep up the good work and if you want to help our the missionaries you need to ask your neighbors or friends if they want to listn to the missionaries and if they say yes you have a reference. alof of times members talk about he gospel but forget the part to ask if they want to listn to misionaries. they forget that the misionaries are the ones called to teach and baptise. it is good to teach the gospel to your friends but if you dont invite them to listn to misionaries they will never get baptised. So something you and the fam can do better is when you have family nights and stuff with freinds invite the missionaries and they will do the rest if they know what they are doing. haha that is something i didnt know when i invited my friends and stuff to church activities and family home evenings. i never invited them to listn to the missionaris and that is whay they havent been baptised. so when you have friends and people over for family nights and stuff like that you need to involve the missionaries. and then you will see fruits from missionary work. but i love you all.
Elder Hancock
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