Sorry for the lack of Tuckers posts explanation below.

The past month has been a little crazy for Tucker he has had 2 surgery procedures in the last month. so we havent posted all those details. Thank you everyone for all your prayers. He is doing really well and recovering at the mission home and is hoping to be back in his area by friday. The following are bits and pieces of his emails: Mom you are not coming to mexico. that is the last thing that you are going to do. i say that i dont even talk to you all after the surgery. i really dont want to talk to you guys. i think it will be better if i wait for mothers day. but dont worry about me everthing is good. my freaken egg finally broke in my butt on thursday i feel a whole lot better. i can finally walk normal. but yeah i am not going to lie that this week stunk. i couldnt do anything. all i have done is slept read and i have drawn a bunch of stuff because that is all i could do. on thursday we had a conference with elder johnsen of the seventy. he is over all of mexico. it was pretty sweet. the night before we stayed witht the zone leaders and my egg started to ozz. and in the morning it started to ozz some more. so i was like. how in the world am i going to go to the freaken conference with this thing ozzing puss and blood. so i was like. you guys go buy me some diapers because these pads dont work. haha so they went and bought me some diapers and so i wore diapers for like 2 or 3 days. it was great. in the middle of the conference i had to change my diaper. it was pretty sweet. haha these diapers are huge. haha but they work. i didnt get any puss or blood on my suit and my garments. it was the best idea i ever had. haha. but mom and family thanks for all the prayers and everything. it has really helped. so thank you. but mom you need to calm down. i am fine. and i am going to the doctor with president in 2 hours. me and my comp are in cuernavaca and we´re just chillin. so i will really find out what this thing is in a few hours. most of all the swelling has gone down because all the puss and blood broke out. so i feel a whole lot better now. so we will see what happens in a few hours. but the pills that i am takeing are something. i really dont know what they are. i was just told to take them and i have taken them. i havent felt anything from them so im good. haha and the pain meds are nothing. i took them after all the pain went so who knows if they work. hhaha. but all is good. dont worry about me. and mom you are not coming to mexico. haha you couldnt survive 2 seconds here in mexico. ahaha jk mother. but the conference of elder johnsen was really good. he talked alot about faith and if we submit our will to jesus christ like he submited his will to the father then we will find people to baptize every week. jesus was perfect becuse he submited his will to our heavenly father and because of that he was perfecft. so yeah it was really cool. i learned alot in my diaper. hhaha. it has been fun telling everyone that i have a cist on my butt. everyone wants to know excpecialy everyone in the ward. haha but its all good. i dont even care. haha and in church we still had more investigators than the zone leaders and we didnt even work this week. haha it was pretty funny. but yeah all is good. here we are going to know the news and i little bit. so i am sure you´ll here from me in a little bit. but that is awesome that teisha rocked her tennis tournament and tate rocked his track meet. i just want to let you know tate that you are lucky that i never did pole vault in middle school. they didnt have it when i was there. so if we did have my name would still be there in the record book above yours. hahahahahahah jk bro that is awesome that you broke the record. thats sweet. haha but i love you all and i will talk to ya´ll in a little bit. mom you can add what you want to the letter. maybe a explanation of what the book of mormon is so he knows. i just wrote that really fast for him. but all is well. i am here in the offices and just chillin. i dont have any pain. i am ready to go work.haha i can walk and everything so we will see when i can leave. i have to go back to mexico in 8 days for a check up so we will see what happens. but all is good. but the only advice i can give is for the missionarries to study for investigators personaly and as a companionship and make a plan to teach them. me and my comp have started to do that and our lessons are alot powerful and our studies are alot powerful because we are thinking of someone that we love and want them to change. so yeah the missionarries have the keys for them so they know what to do. haha but just get em baptized. but yeah that is pretty much all that has gone on. thats good that tate and teisha are doing good. tate is tearing up in track so that is good. . but yeah keep up the good missionary work. keep it going. haha but i love you all so much and thank you for all that you do for me. thanks for all the prayers and thank all the fam and friends for all their prayers for me. i really do feel good. so all is well. you guys dont need to worry. i am good. but love ya all and talk to ya later. Mi familia, everything is going fine here in the offices. i feel just fine. i just have a nice little hole in my butt. it is kinda like another hinny. haha so i have 2 holes now. it is pretty sweet. haha it isnt that big. . . . he is way funny. his family is pretty rich. he drove a mercedes and he had a servant in his house do everything. haha he . i always tease him that i am going to marry his sister. she is going to serve her mission in salt lake at the temple and she knows english. so when you go to salt lake look for a sister miguel. haha i told him that when pres scott was talking about marriage i was just thinking of his sister. it was pretty funny. he is a funny kid. but yeah on thursday i go back to the doctor to get it checked then i friday i leave to go back to acapulco. the office is like 5 min away from the mission home. it is way close. but i say that i am going to get changed this change but who knows. i get back this friday and then i will have a week to work and we have changes. i will know the 16th if i get changed or not. so we will see. but this week has been good. i just have been chillin. i feel fine. the day after my operation i was ready to go back and work. i worked with more pain before when i had my egg on my butt than i do now. i dont even have any pain right now. but i have to stay cuz i have to go back to the doctor this week. so this week. pres. bought all of us tacos one day in the offices. the other day i went with the sec. on divisions to eat and do a interview. the next day i went with the assistents on divisions and knocked doors. so i havent had to sit in the offices all day which is good. i would hate it if i had to do that. so i have been helping everyone here in the offices and then i leave out to go work. thats what i am going to do tomorrow also. so it should be fun. also conference was way good. i really enjoyed it. it did talk alot about why we have adversity and stufff like that so yeah i get the point. haha but i really liked elder oaks talk on desire. and i liked the example of the rugby player. that was pretty sweet. also i liked the talk of pres monson and elder scott on marriage. i now know what i need to do when i get home. haha i need to get married. haha but yeah conference was way good. a fam of three that we are teaching back in acapulco went to every session besides one. so that was sweet. also madalyne our other investigator went so we had 4 peaple in church without even working. so that was pretty good. haha so we should baptize this family on the 16th. they are a pretty cool family. we have only taught them once because of my egg but they accepted to be baptized and are really eager to learn. they have been to church twice and the members have really helped them out which is good. so we should have 3 baptisms when we get back. so i am pumped for that. but yeah that is all that has gone on this week. we have just been chillin with the secrateries and the asistents. it has been pretty fun. but i am ready to go back to our area. but just have to freakin wait and be patient. i dont have any patience so i am working on that. haha but that is way sweet that tate broke the record. he better break it in district. that is when it counts. he better man up and do it. vale la pena. haha and teisha that is nuts that she is going to prom. i cant believe it. it should be fun. tell dad or tate or someone to bring out the guns or knives or something. bring out the bear thing and scare him with that. haha that would be way funny. oh and mom fort collins is north of denver so no it is not closer to the springs. but still cool that colorado is going to have another temple. also that rome is going to have a temple that is pretty sweet. but yeah i love you and dont worry about me i am just fine. con amor, elder hancock

Feb 28 2011

thanks for all the udates. sounds like everyone is doing good. that is cool that jd is going to get baptized. yeah i remember the dad of zack but i dont remember the wife of his dad. but everything will work out. tell him i said hi and to keep up the great work. in a year he can serve a mission too. that is good that tim was able to go and stay with tammy and kelly. i love that kid to death. haha but to answer tates question no i am not teaching hannah montana she wont go to church so we had to drop her. but this week was really good me and my comp worked really hard. we found 22 new investigators and 18 accepted a date to get baptized so we will see how that goes. we are trying to talk to everyone that we can and challenge them all to baptism because that is are calling. there was a great talk by elder Erying about the calling of a missionary and the calling of a member of the church. our calling is to teach and baptize and the calling of the members is to find the people that we can teach. this week we had 10 lessons with a member which is really good. we are trying to have a family type deal every day where the members can invite their friends and family. it worked pretty well this week. the only problem this week is that we didnt baptize. but we are going to do everything we can to baptize this week. we have people ready but alot of them need to get married. haha but its alright we are going to help em do it. but this week we have changes. i doubt i will get changed out because i just got my kid, but who knows. we are trying to help out the ward here. there is alot of pride in this ward and we are trying to help them to have more love and charity for each other. so if you have any suggestions on activities that we could do to help let me know. but all is good here in acapulco. dont worry mom i am protected and why did the president send a email to you guys. just wondering. but all is good here. that is cool that you were able to go see leander play with melvin and them. sounds like you all had fun. they sent me a little eamil just saying hi. how is joel playing? Have a great week love ya all
Love Elder Hancock

feb 21 2011

hola familia. all is well here on the coast. sorry mom i forgot my camera and so i cant send pictures this week. you just need to have paciencia. you will get your pics some day it just might be when i get home. haha but this week was a good week. we had 2 baptisms this week with alma and miguel angel. they are way cool. we contacted them in a convey or a van and i challenged them to baptism and they accepted in the van. this was 2 weeks ago and now they are baptized. they were way escogido. miguel angel is 13 and he is going to go to the efy that they are going to have here in mexico. they are a cool family. alma just felt a change in her life when we came and taught her. she had all these problems but just felt the peace of the spirit in her life and was ready to be baptized. they were way cool. this week we are trying to baptize to reach are goal of 4. we have 3 and need one more. i know that we can do it we just to have faith and go to work. we have a few possibilities but some of those need to get married first. we are teaching alot of families where alot of the family is members and some are not. so that is aloways good with the support of the members that are familly. but alot of them are young and have babies and need to get married. we have 2 young couples where the husbands are members but the wifes arent and they need to get married before we can baptize them. yuritzy is doing good. there family is having a hard financial time and the dad is working on sundays. they all want to go to church but sometimes it is hard for them to go. but everything is going good. karla and her daughter katolina went to church this week. i think karla got a job this week which is good. but i am not sure. there are a bunch of tenis matches going on at the princess hotel and she got a job there i think. but yeah me and my comp i trying to use all the members that we can to help us with the work and it is going good we are having alot of noches de hogar or family nights which is way good. this week we had 10 investorgators in the church which was really good. i havent had that in a while. me and my kid are working way hard. this weeek the pres and his wife came down and we had are zone conference. he talked about how we all need to be a 4 missionary. there are 1, 2, 3, and 4 missionaries. there are alot of good missionarries but not alot of great missionarries. the great misisonarries are the ones that totaly forget themselves and are constantly thinking of others and are lost in the work. they are the ones that are obedient and follow the spirit. it was way goood. i love listning to our president he is a way funny guy. so i need to be a 4 missionarry. i. thats cool that kaleb got the email from his friend. his friends name is elder evans. he was way cool. he served in my area like a year ago. he went hot tubing at kaylas house and remembers glen because of his fingers. haha it was way cool. i chilled with him at the conference. he was in kalebs efy group for like all 4 years. crazy hugh. he is from texas too but in dallas or something. sounds like tate is having a great time in track. im not going to lie i hated track. haha but thats good. and tate keep standing up for whats right. haha teisha stay away from all those boys. haha. but i love you all and everything is going good here in acapulco. i love it here and me and my comp are working hard. my comp has learned alot and is a great misionary. he has turned into a great teacher and is doing great. he is a great misionary. but mom you are right my pdays are dedicated to playing some type of ball. haha today we played some bball. it was way fun. but yeah it is crazy that i have 7 months today. time is flying by so fast. all is good with marian the member we live by she is a great misionary. she loves to give us references she is a great person. haha i dont think i put a book of mormon in the library. i dont remember. that is way cool that he has been reading it. he needs to get baptized. tell the misionarries there to keep up the great work . oh our baptizm was on the beach and it was pretty sweet. alma brought a friend that knows someone that owns a resturant on the beach and we got to go there and use the bathrooms and have the service in the shade with chairs and everything. they brought us cocanuts and there was hardly anyone there. it was pretty sweet. the waves were way strong so it was difficult but we got the job done. it was cool. haha but i love you all and am thankful for all of your examples.
love, elder hancock

Feb 14 2011

thanks fam for all the udates and sounds like everyone is doing good. tate is about time that you start shooting the ball. haha but that is awesome that you had a game like me. haha love ya bud. and tiesha that is sweet you won your tennis tournaments. keep up the great work and stay away from those chavos boys. haha and mom and dad everything is going good here in mexico. i have lost like 8 or so pounds so not too much. and all is well here in acapulco. my comp is way awesome. he is shorter than me and has braces still. he looks like a little kid. haha but he has learned alot. i think i have done a good job of teaching him how to teach. he learns really fast. he is a realy humble did and has a strong testimony. so we are getting along just fine. i feel i have bettered my spanish alot with thim here cuz i have to speak it all the time which is good. the patriarch says i speak acupuceño. he says i have a accent like the people here in acupuco. so that is good. haha . but this week we baptized cesar. he is 17 years old and he is a way cool kid. i believe that he will serve a mission. he is way cool. we just baptized him this week satan is really working hard in our area but he wont win. we are teaching alot of cool people and am excited to find more. ___ and her family is doing good. she has had alot of douts with all of the anti bull and she still has problems . i feel like a bishop every time i go over there trying to help her. but all is good now. we finally got the ward working on hometeachers so our converts can have people come over instead of us. alot of our converts still dont have callings so we are working with the ward with that. but it is all good. that is cool that is reading the book of mormon. isnt he a senor in high school. but yeah all is going good here in mexico and me and my kid are working hard. but i love you all and thanks for all you do for me.
Elder Hancock

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