Feb 7 2011

Tucker has been crazy busy the past few weeks and we have only had very short emails so i have not posted them. but atleast this week we got a little more info. He is now training a new companion from mexico and is very excited about that. He is still in the same area and his companion Elder Roskelly got transfered. Thanks for all your prayers in his behalf.

happy bithday mother. feliz cumpliaños. mom thanks for all that you have done for me. you are a great example to me and i love you very much. and mom yes you need to add karla as a freind and send her a message. that would be awesome if you could do that. she knows the church is true and is having a hard time right now. she might be doing it becuase her mom is sick and she doesnt want to cause any stress on her mom but she knows the church is true so yeah that would be great to send her a message. she knows english. but sounds like everythin is going good in texas. sounds like it is cold. im not going to lie i am glad i am not there. haha. but all is good here in acapulco .the conference that i had this week was amazing i learned alot of stuff for presedent and his wife. me and elder woodcox. woodcox was my comp in the mtc for a little bit. we stayed at the AP house and worked in their area in cuernavaca. it was pretty sweet. we had alot of fun together. but yeah pres talked alot about our purpose and that we need to challenge everyone to baptism. if you are not challengeing everyone to baptism then you are not doing your job. me and elder roskelly lead the mission with people with fecha which was good. so me and elder miguel need to keep it up. because the more people you have with fecha the more you are going to baptize. me and my kid when we got we have been challenging vans and stuff so it has been really good. this week we are going to baptize 2. we are going to baptize cezar he is 17 and he is really cool. i believe that he will serve a mission he is a really cool kid. then we are going to baptize crisian who is 8 years old. him and his mom have been going to church for a long time and he wants to get baptized so does the mom but she is not married so we are working on that. but all is going good. i know that no one can stop the work of the lord and we are going to continue to keep working hard. but yeah that is what went on this week. everything is going good. i did get the package thanks for the treats and the mighty fine shirt. and all the church movies. thanks you. oh yeah and i do remember brooke. she is a cute girl just give her my address and she will get baptized for sure. haha i remember she played basketball. but yeah. thats cool that she is getting baptized. and for ____________. give him a book of mormon from me and tell him to read it and that i love him. give him scriptures about the atonement to read. i love that kid and feel horrible for him. sorry mom i dont have time to send pics right now. i promise i will send you some. just not this week. but i just want to wish ya a happy birthday and tell ya that i love ya. thanks for your example for me. you are right about how i just need to serve those here in mexico. you are the greatest example i can think of of service. thanks for that example for me. but i love you all very much and i will talk to yall next week.
elder hancock

Jan 10 2011

hello family how is everyone doing. sounds like everything is going good down in texas. it doesnt surprise me that your phone was going nuts with all the birthday wishes for me. thats just normal. haha jkbut my birthday this week was pretty sweet. for lunch we went to a member and they gave us tacos al pastor. it was awesome as usual. also at night we went to judith´s because she bought me a cake and made us dinner and made a pinata. it was pretty crazy. it is tradition here that they shove your face in the cake so they did that to me so that was pretty funny. also the pinata that i broke was full of flour so i had flour alll over me and they threw ketchup on me and all kinds of stuff. so it was pretty nuts. we had a flour war with them and it was pretty crazy. it was way fun. i have pics but i dont have time to send them all i dont think. but yeah this week was a good week. we recieved alot of references from members and every day we areuseing the members to work. it is alot better this way. we have found 3 cool families through references that all want to be baptized.references is the way to go. me and my comp have built a great team of members working with us. judith went out with us 2 times this week to our lessons and la familia martinez are ward missionarries and they have a huge family and just let us teach there whole family and they arent afraid to speak to anyone so we got a good team going. me and my comp dont want to get changes but there is a posibility. we have like 22 new missionarries coming this change so in like 2 weeks and it is a possibility i might be training and my comp as well. so we will findout. we should have interviews with president and tell him that we have a good set up here and to keep us together so we can keep baptizeing but we will see. it isnt our decision. haha but we baptized israel this week. he is 23 years old and is the son of israel and doris. the ones that need to get married but cant yet. but there son israel did. israel the one that we baptized just seperated from his girl to be baptized. he prayed about it and got his answer that she wasnt the one and got baptized this week.he is a way cool kid. hannah montana didnt get baptized this week because her mom cant walk right now and couldnt come watch her be baptized but we are going to baptize her this week. it will happen. we are also going to baptize this lady that is a single mom and her family is way catholic but we talked to her and like the first visit with her she was like i want to be baptized. it was pretty sweet. i will tell you more about her next week. but yeah everything is going good here. i love every min of the work here. but that is awesome that teisha had a good time on her date. teisha i want a play by play of the date to let you know if he is worth talking to or not. haha so le tme know. haha and tate you need to shoot the ball more. thats all i am going to tell you. haha but i love all of you guys and thanks for all the support. mom i liked your scripture you sent. that power that he gives us is also the power to be like him. which is the power of the priesthood. because one must have the priesthood to become like god... it is the power god used to create worlds and to create us. this is the power we recieve to help us become like him. i like a saying here in spanish that the patriach said to us. he said. perritos llegana ser perros. catitos llegan a ser catos. somos diositos y podemosllegar a ser dioses. it basicly says puppies become dogs. kittens become cats. we are little gods and we become gods. it is alot better in spanish though. haha but love yall
elder hancock

January 3 2011

i decided to answer to dads email this week so there is no complaining. haha jk but thanks for all the birthday wishes. it is kinda crazy to think that i am 20 years old. i am getting way to old. time is going way fast. but i havent go my presents yet this week but the zone leaders are going to cuernavace this week so they should get them this week for me so it is all good. for my birthday we have a dinner appointment with these people and at church they said they are going to take me out to eat for tacos al pastor so i am way excited for that it should be fun. this week was good. it was slow but it was good. it was slow because we dedicated this week to work with the members. it went really well i believe. we went to judiths and we went to people that just were made ward missionarries and we did a monthly planning session with them like we do every month. we went through and made goals for them to help us and there friends. for example judith has a goal to have 5 of her references to be baptized this month and she is excited to work for it. our key indicators for them are baptisms lessions with us, how many of their friends go to church, how many references they give, how many people they talk with about the gospel. so i think it will be really good because they are all excited to work and work with us. with judith alone she could think of like 25 people that we can go and visit. so i think it will be really effective. so that is what we focused on this week. we confirmed 2 this week which was socorro and roxana. so i have 11 confirmationes so far and hannah montana is going to get baptized this next week. she went to church this week so she is ready to be baptized. we still have the same problems with the ones not being married but we talked to isriel this week the son. and he is way excited to be baptized and prayed and dumped his girl friend that he was living with because he recieved an answer that he should. i think we might be able to baptize him this week. him and his dad got up and bore their testimonies this week in church. it was way cool to hear them and see the gospel change their lives even though they havent been baptized yet. they got up and just said they were thankful for us and knocking on their door and that they know that this church was true. it was a great feeling to see them get up there and do that. it was the best birthday present i could have. it was way cool. also this new years was one that i will never forget. it was one of the coolest experiences that i have had on my mission. one of the scariest and one of the coolest experieces i have ever had. it was pretty crazy. it is so nuts that i cant reallly share it. you have to know the whole situation and story. i dont have time to type it to yall now but lets just say that prayer is power and miracles do happen. . thats all i can say now but it was pretty intence and lets just say that prayer is power and that it works.but that is pretty much it. this morning we played monopoly with our zone leaders and other missionarries and that was fun and that is pretty much it. but this week was a good week and i am excited to be here on my mission to do the lords work. i am thankful for all you have done for me and all the help and support you have all have given me. i think it is nuts that teisha is going on her first date. tell tate to harass her for me because i wont be there. haha jk but i love you allso much and hope you all have a great week. oh send me like the joseph smith movie and testaments in spanish. that would be way helpful actually. so if you can find that send me that for valentines. love ya.

elder hancock

Dec 20 2010

Feliz navidad. sounds like the fam is doing good. por fin tate finaly got his first deer. haha i got my first deer when i was like 7 and it was a 300 yard shot in the snow standing up in a tree. haha jk tate that is awesome i am proud of ya. but i am not proud that you are not shooting the ball in bball. if you want to win then shoot the ball. the worst that willl happen is it wont go in so shoot it every chance you get. so tiralo. that means shoot it. haha it sounds like everyone is having a great time. i liked the pics besides the fat one. haha i looked almost like a real mexican. jk but that was funny. i have actually lost weight here ive lost like 6 to 8 pounds of muscle. buts its ok i can stilll kick the trash out of tate. ahaha but this week was a bummer i am not going to lie. we knocked about 400 doors and got 13 news and maybe 2 of those will get baptized. it is frustrateing when you teach em all and they feel the spirit and then they reject it. i hate when that happens. we even ask them what do you have to do to know if this is true. they are like read pray and go to church and then they dont do it. it is frustrateing. but everyone has there agency but when they feel it and know it and then reject it is tough. but yeah. we did find some cool people though. we had a cool experience with this one family that we taught. we taught her and her 2 daughters and we asked her to pray at the end and we told her to ask if this church is true and she did it and started chokeing up and holding her chest and the spirit was way strong. she recieved her answer right there on the spot which was way sweet. but they didnt go to church so we need to focus on that with them this week. we didnt have any baptisms because guadalupe the one that backed out on us the other week had a wedding for her sister so we need to still talk to her. and madaline didnt go to church again this week and we even passed by her to go and she wasnt there or didnt wake up to answer the door. but on the bright side we have 3 baptisms planned for christmas which should be way fun. one her name is rosana she is our neighbor and the other is oliver and his mom. oliver is 18 and his moms name is weird i would have to look in my planner but they are way cool. also we might be able to baptize leonardo and his wife we are not sure. we are going to talk to president this week to see what we can do for them. . but we dont know so we are going to talk to pres and see because they want to get baptized. we did a special fast for them this week so pray that everything goes well. i love this work and i am so excited to talk to everyone not as excited as mom but i am excited. haha. but la verdad i have no clue when i am going to be able to call you guys because we are going to have those baptisms. i think we will do it in the morning and that would be best. so plan on us calling you in the morning but i am not sure depending on when we have the baptisms. so plan on getting a call in the morning. we are either going to use the phone in the hermanas house next to us or the phone at judiths. so am just going to call you from there and then you just call back so you pay for it. sound good? haha but sorry i dont have an exact time. it is because we are going to have a white christmas. haha but plan on getting a call in the morning. but yeah that is pretty much it for now. but i love you all and i will talk to you on christmas.
Elder hancock

Dec 13 2010

all is good here in aucapulco. i am aficialy staying here for another change which is a answer to my prayers. de verdad i didnt want to leave here because we have alot of people that can get baptized and alot of good investigators. this is really a area that is really growing and there are alot of people ready to recieve the gospel.

but like i was saying i love this area and i am still with elder roskelly. we realy get along really well and i believe that we make a really good team when we teach so that is good. this week we when to a old peoples home or casa de ancianos and we hung out with them from like 10 to 5 in the afternoon. it was way fun. there was a lady there that had read the whole book of mormon and is like yeah i know this book is true and she was like 90 it was pretty cool. the house is like right in front of where we live and we had no idea that it was there. there is a huge fence so we had no idea what was behind it. but it was way fun. we played bingo with all of them and that helped me learn alot of new words in spanish so that was good. i helped feed this dude that couldnt feed himself. i also taught a 90 year old the joseph simth story and then i also all the workers there talked to us and i contacted them so all in all it was a really good experience. before that on tuesday this week. we were going to visit leaondardo and his wife to see if they got there birth certificates to see if they can get married but they werent home and i saw this girl sitting in the front door. and i told my comp hey we need to talk to them. we did and turns out the grandma is there and is a member but wants nothing to do with the church. we taught the daughter and grandaughter and i told them straight up that we had no clue that that lady was a member and we felt we should talk to them and was like there is no coincidences and i know they felt the spirit but they were scared to admit it because of their mom and grandma. but that was pretty cool. also we had more divisions this week because we had people that needed to get intervviewed to be baptized. so i stayed here and had elder carlos our zone leader with me. it was alot of fun. we found alot of cool people throughout the day just always haveing in your mind that your going to find walking from cita to cita even when you are busy. also the other day on like the 12th was a mexican holiday for the virgin guadalupe that the catholic church worshipes here and we saw this kid that we have taught before and we were like why didnt you go to church and he was like i dont know and we were like well go tomorrow and he is like i cant and we were like why not and he said because of this holiday for the virgin guadalupe . after reading the book of mormon. in reality alma and amulek and ammon and all of them just told people how it was and in reality we need to be like that too. yeah we need to have love and charity but when something is wrong then its wrong. i thought you guys would like that story. haha but this week we had 2 baptisms that fell through because one is she wantsto have her uncle come and he couldnt come this week so we are doing it this next week. the other one is named guadalupe and she lives with a member family because her husband is a member. this week she was way pumped to get baptized. she had been having problems with her mom telling her stuff and her mom and we told her. who doesnt want you to get baptized and she was like satan and we were like who wants you to get baptized and she was like god. and we said who are you going to follow and she said god and she was way pumped and stufff and we were going to do it right before church and we got a call that morning that she didnt want to do it. we talked to the fam at the church and they said she was with her mom after the interview so we are going to go back and talk to her. she knows it is true and has felt the spirit so i think she will come around. but we did have 2 conformations so for this month we already have 4 and we have alot more to go so we are pumped this week. today we got a new zone leader with elder carlos and elder norris left. im going to miss elder norris he was way cool but he new dude seems cool too but yeah that is pretty much it for the day. we dont have meetings today so thats why we are typing a little later. but everything is going good here. we had 9 investigators at church this week which was good but the bad thing is 6 need to get married. haha so we really need to work and that and help them. but yeah this was my week. and sounds like everone is doing great in texas. i love you all and am gratefull for all your support.

ps. i heard today i have a bunch of packages in cuernavaca so i should get them the 23rd so they did get there.

con amor, elder hancock

Dec 6 2010

hello fam. it sounds like all is good in texas. this week was a great week. yesterday we confirmed judith and we baptized her daughter that just turned 8 after church. and before church we baptized suzie. she is 9 and her sister is a member and her grandparents are really strong members. her parents are investigating the church and the dad told us he is 70 percent sure that the church is true. the spirit was really strong at the baptism and we are going to talk with them this week and try and see if we can set a baptism date for the parents. so sunday was a busy day for us. we still need to confirm yuritzy. we stopped by their house and the dad said that he couldnt make it to church because of a problem with his son. so she didnt come. the story with them is that they know the church is true and they have desire to go but they are dirt poor. you saw the picture of all the little girls that they have. . he said that he really wants to got to the temple with his family and be sealed. we didnt even teach him that and he told us that. so they are way cool. they just have alot of trials that they need to overcome. but yuritzy is awesome she knows everything that we have taught her and more. we will make sure she makes it to church this week. this week we found this cool kid his name is oliver. he is 18 and i knocked his door and talked to him. i asked him if he believed and god and religion and something like that and he was like he had his douts and i was like what kind. he said like why are there so many churches and confusion and stuff. i was like well let me tell ya about someone that had that same doubt. it was way cool he really liked it and accepted to be baptized. he just didnt go to church this week so we will see what happened there. he probably just didnt wakeup on time. and slept in. . haha but another way cool experience was we knocked the house of this lady her name was melina and her friend was there and her name was karina. at frist they didnt seem like they were listening really well to our lesson about the restoration and then melina started to open up and tell us that she went to one of our churches when she was in the u.s. she said that she felt peace and comfort there. i told her that we pray every night where we need to go as missionarries and us being there is no coincidence and when i said that karina began to cry when i said that and i just bore my testimony and we asked her what was up. and karina told us a experience she had that one day when she was feeling depressed and alone. she prayed and went to bed and had a dream where she saw a man dressed and white and his hands where spread out and extended toward her. she said she felt comfort and peace and she wasnt alone. she said that last night she felt the same way and began to pray and she had the same dream last night that she had had before. she said that when i said that there was no coincidences that she felt that same peace and love that she felt and she was crying all through this story and she was like i feel it here and held her heart. she was feeling the spirit way strong and so were we. i felt it way strong when she was telling her story. we comitted to baptism and to go to church. we told them that they would feel the same peace and comfort if they went and they didnt come. i feel they will bebaptized but we need to stress the importance of church again. we had 5 in church so that wasnt bad but we should have alot more. but that was a way cool experience this week. God really is prepareing those that are ready for the gospel we just need to find them or members need to find them and then tell us. haha but yeah this week was good.we should continue to have alot of success this month which is good. we have changes this saturday and dont know if we are leaving i dont want to because of all of out success that we have lined up but we will see. my comp has been in the same zone here his whole mission so who knows. haha but i sent some pics one is a family that is in the ward. he is the patriarch with the hat he is so funny. they are way cool. we dont have a bishop right now because he moved out of the area so that answeres that question. haha. but yeah everything is good here and i am loving every min of it. tell the kids i love em and to keep up the good work. and thank you mom and dad for all you do. i still have'nt got the packages. i dont know whats up.i have faith i will get them. christmas should be good. i will write you the details about that next week. but love ya i got to go. elder hancock

November 29 2010

que paso......... whats up fam. things are going really good here in mexico. yesterday was a little disapointing but it is all good. we had our baptism this week on saturday with yuritzy. she is like 10 or 11 and she is going to be the next profeta. she is way smart. when we teach her and her family she is the one answering all of the questions. we baptized her in the beach in front of the princess hotel. it was pretty cool. the problem was she didnt make it to church this week and didnt get confirmed. her mom got called into work and her dad got sick. so this week she needs to go to church. and also judith still hasnt got confirmed either. she got a new boss and her scheduale has been crazy. she knows she needs to got to church so we are going to help her with that this week. so this month we baptized 6 and only confirmed 4. so our monthly goal was 5 so we didnt get it because they havent been confirmed yet. but its all good. we are going to plan to teach all of our investigators of the importance of recieveing the gift of the spirit and the importance of going to church. this month we have the possibility to baptize 9 this month. so we are excited to go to work and try to lead the mission with baptisms this month. we can do it but people need to go to church. so that is whats going to happen. but that is awesome that you guys had a fun thanksgiving. me and my comp for thanksgiving planned 2 dinner appointments instead of 1 haha. it was fun. this p day as a zone and another zone we went bowling. it was way fun. haha i had to show everyone all up like always. haha but thats cool that joel has been doing really good. i love that kid. he sent me a little note. did the fam in utah get to go see him play. also i wanted to wish you and dad a happy anniversary and thank you guys for being awesome parents for me. you are both great examples to me and have always been there for me. thank you. but yeah this was pretty much my week this week. we have this month set up really well to have alot of baptisms we just need to go to work and do it. we are way pumped. also it sounds like teisha had alot of fun on her trip. and sounds like tate is ready to tear it up in basketball. it is crazy how every one is all growing up. i remember when i tried out for basketbal in the seventh grade and all that stuff. it is nuts how time flys. but the language is coming. there are still times in lessons when i dont know what is going on. lessons i understand really well. its when i get out of lessons i need to learn alot more. so im trying to work on that and try to talk to as many people i can to learn as fast as possible. i still catch myself makeing stupid little mistakes. so i need to continue working hard on that. but yeah that is pretty much it for this week. just time to go to work for this new month and do our best. but love you all so much. oh yeah i havent got the packages yet because the zone leaders havent been in cuernavaca to get them yet. so i should get them this week. so dont worrry. . but love you all so much.

elder hancock