May 23,2011

Hey happy birthday dad. Im not going to lie i competely forgot it was your birthday but mom reminded me. haha but i love ya and am thankful for all that you do for me. your a great example to me. you treat us and mom like a father should. i always remember my patriachal blessing and how it says i should watch your example and how you treat mom and us. i have done that and i hope some day i can become a dad like you. i love ya lots and keep up the great work.

What up fam. sounds like everyone is doing good in texas. that is funny that brandon and cash took all the mormon girls to their prom. haha that is pretty funny. i love that kid he needs to get baptized. haha also sounds like tate is busy with sports which is good. tell him to keep me posted. and teisha stay away from all those boys . haha but all is good here in puente de ixtla. we had our mission conference with elder rasband. it was way good. he just extended on to the talk that he gave in general conference about the divine companionship. it was way good. in his talk he talks about the experience that he had when he was with pres Erying picking where missionarries go and how it is direct revelation from god and that we are where we are at because god wants us to be here. he continued on to that and talked about how this process doesnt stop when we are in the field. he said that our mission president recieves the same revalation of where we need to go in the mission and who we will be our comp in the mission. He said that this is the only time in our life where we will be guided like this. he said that we are where we are at right now with the comp we have right now because the lord wants it that way. he said the lord wants us to learn something in every area we are in and to learn something with every companion that we are with. it was way cool. i enjoyed his talk. it was also fun to see everyone in the mission. i have made alot of cool friends. this change alot of my good friends are going home. it is pretty sad but thats the mission. oh mom my butt is just fine i went to the doctor this week and he cant believe how it has closed up so fast. i went on thursday and he was surprised. so all is good with my butt. thank everyone for all the prayers. and this week i did find a camara so dont worry. i have one now and it works. haha this week was a good week we had alot of really good lessons and we have really worked well with the members. on saturday we had a family night with our ward missionarries and they invited a couple and one other teenage girl. it was a really good lesson. the couple was like we are for sure going to the church and they did and they liked it alot. so that was way good. we had 7 people in the church this week which was way good. the ward hasnt seen that for a really long time. but the 3 people that are ready to get baptized this week didnt go and they need to go before they get baptized so that stunk. we will have to find out what happened with them. the couple veronica and gorge are doing good. we have a family night with them tomorrow which will be good. oh also this week in church we had 2 other members come up to us and say they have friends that want o here from us. so the blessing are starting to come. not as quickly as we would like because we are not going to meet our goal this month but they are coming which is really good. we have worked hard and we have gained the confidence of the members which is really good. also this week we did alot of service. we moved a bunch of dirt for a investigator and then another day as a zone we built a fence. so i am workin hard. and i love it. but thanks for all you do for me and keep up the good work. that is awesome about hd. i love that kid. i am going to miss him too. i want his email so i can talk to him. love ya. elder hancock

May 16 2011

Grandpa,

Hey gramps how you doing. everything is good here in mexico. i love every minuete. every day i get to think of someone else and their needs and through the help of the spirit i can teach them to thier needs and i can see the change that takes place in their lives. i love it. i never want to think of myself again. i love the people here and i love being a misionary. i know that granny is part of this great work on the other side. i think the work on the other side is even alot bigger than here and granny is part of that work. grandpa i love you with all of my heart and am thankful for the example that you have set for me. stay away from my chocholate milk. there isnt any down here in mexico. haha elder hancock

hello mother. sorry i dont have much time to write you but all is good. today we played football it was pretty fun and for that i dont have much time. this week was really good. we are working really hard. on tuesday we visited all the moms that we are teaching and all the moms in the word. i drew a pictrue of Eunice in the bible when she is teaching timothy the scriptures. it is in 2 timothy 1 something. i drew that and made coppies and we gave it out to all of them. i think we gained alot of respect and confidence from the members and we received some references for doing that so that was good. on monday night we had a awesome family night where sister paty invited her friends and we taught them. it is a couple their names are victoria and gorge. they are ready to receive this gospel. it is so much better to work this way with the members. i say this couple will get baptized this next month. i have been praying to find a couple that can get baptized and in a year i can go to the temple with them when they get married. i think this is a answer to my prayer. they are a really cool family and they are hungry to learn more. i love this work and i know that if we want to have success we need to work with the members. the members are key. i think we have gained the confidence with alot of the members. i am excited to go to work again this week. tomorrow we have a conference with elder rasband from the 70 with all of the mission. i am excited for that. the whole mission is going. but i love you all so much. keep working hard in the work of God. the missionarries need your help to find people so find them. haha.

May 9 2011

It was good to talk to everyone yesterday. it sounds like everyone is doing good. my comp and i are working really hard and he has a strong testimony. he is a good comp. haha he is really smart. he is a good comp. we dont have any problems at all. so all is good. and to answer your question. the best part of the mission is seeing someone recieve their answer that the church is true and the worst part of the mssion is seeing them deny the answer that they have recieved. that is the best and worst part of the mission. the best food on the mission is tacos al pastor and chile reenos and the worst food on the mission is pig feet and pig skin. i forgot to tell you i had to eat pig feet here. i thought i was going to die. i couldnt eat it. it was sick. it still had hair and everything. so i hope that answeres all your questions. but looks like teisha had a great time with alejandro. if not at least she got to ride in a lemo. haha and tell mitch he did a great job. she looks perfect for him. and tate has become the little artist. that looks just like mugsie. haha but today we went to the ruins it was sweet. it was fun to chill with the other misisonarrries. we went to xochicalco if you want to look it up. so yeah. but i love you all and i will talk to you next week. elder hancock

may 2 2011

What up fam. sounds like all is good back home. Teisha that is awesome that you kicked butt. haha keep up the good work and keep working hard. here inmexico mothers day is on the 10th so i wont talk to you on sunday i will talk to you on tuesday so you will have to wait 2 more days to talk to me. haha sorry but thats the way it is. everything went good this week. me and my comp can start to baptize every week like our president has told us. this week we are going to baptize Belen. she is 10 years old. her mom got baptized like 5 years ago and has been inactive. we went and visited her with a member and began to teach her and her daughter. we taght Belen her daughter how to pray and she gave the closing prayer. it was way cool. she began to pray and began to pray for her mom and her family. she and her mom started to cry. it was way cool. the spirit reconfirmed to the mom that they need to go to church and they went this week and Belen is excited to get baptized. the next week we can baptize A. A is 18 and all of his family just got baptized right before we got here. We had some really cool lessons with him this week and he has stopped drinking and is reading the book of mormon and is praying. the problem is he didnt go to church this week because he went to work. so this week we are going to pound keeping the sabath day holy. The next week we can baptize someone by the name of Conrado. this week we had a missionary activity with our misson leader and our ward missionarries. it was pretty sweet. there is a street in our area where there are a bunch of people vending stuff and we got a spot in the morning and set up a table and put up pictures of the church and had liahonas and pamphlets of the family and stuff like that. and we just contacted all the people that stopped by for like 3 or 4 hours. it was pretty sweet. one guy that passed by was conrado and this weeek he went to church and he really liked it. we are going to teach him this week. the next week we have Soledad. soledad is someone that we found knocking doors. she is way cool. she told us our first visit that she was just talking about with her family what is the truth and then we knocked her door. cool hugh. the spirit is awesome. but this week we taught her the plan of salvation and it really made sence to her because she has been thinking about all these questions of where we come from and where we go after this like. she just opened up to us and told us that her son that was 16 just passed away in a car accident and that her brother is in jail because he was drunk driveing and got it a wreck and it killed the kid that was in the car. so she needs the gospel now and she is progressing really well. she just couldnt go to church this week because she had to go to see her brother in jail. she is like in her late 50s and has a big family so after she gets baptized i say that her family is going to follow her example. then we also have another person that could get baptized the last week of this month his name is Nicholas. he is 20 and his parents got baptized a year ago. we taught him and he had alot of questions which was good. he really wants to know if these things are true. so i am pumped. me and my comp are working hard and studying hard. the new program is really cool. we have dvds of misionarries that they filmed from the united states. one is from our mission in texas and the other is from california. we watch that every day seeing what they did good and what they did bad and how we can improve and then we practice with each other doing role plays. it is like watching film every day for football but it is for misionary work. it is pretty sweet. i like it alot. my butt is good. this week i went to mexico city again and they just pulled out some stiches and rubbed off a bunch of dead skin. but all is good. they said everything looks good. so i am doing great. after we went to carls jr and got a huge burger with the assistents. so that was good to have some american food. but i have 2 butts and i am happy. haha my house is pretty sweet i have a huge balcony which is cool. that is cool that you gave a blessing to tims mom and that is sweet that tim is the elders quorum president. that is so awesome i am excited for him and mitch getting married. thats nuts. is she hot. haha. but all is good here in puente de ixtla. i love you all very much and i am looking forward to talking to you all on tuesday. on monday i will give you all the details of how you can get a hold of me. ok. love ya.

elder hancock

April 25 2011

Everything is going good in the new area. we have worked really hard this week. the members here are really cool and are willing to work with us. there are alot of inactives in our ward but the ward is pretty strong. there is about 100 or less that come every week and there is like 400 members in our area. so we have alot of work to do but the bishop is cool and are ward missionary is really cool as well. my comps name is elder cornejo. he is from sinaloa. it is north somewhere in mexico. he is a really good misionary. his first few days he was a little timid to talk but by the end of the week he was commiting people to be baptized in contacts. so he is doing really well. he has alot of faith and amor for the people and really wants to help the people here. he is 18 years old and has never lived away from his home but he is doing good. haha today for pday we went to a missionaries house and in his back yard he has a basketball court and everything. it was so sweet. i was so jelous. i have always wanted to have a house with a whole court in my backyard. if i had that i would go out and shoot hoops everymorning. it was so sweet. when i have a camera that works i will send picks of my dream mision house. haha but this week was good. we have met alot of the members and we have tried to talk to everyone. we found 24 new investigators which is really good but none of them went to the church. it was because this week was the semana santa or the holy week so everyone had family in town and didnt do jack. we had alot of appointments that fell because all the fam was in town. but it is ok we are going to visit them this week and encourage them to go to church. but we confirmed 2 this week. there names are mirnerva and victor. there mom got baptized like 2 or 3 weeks ago and they got baptized last week and got confirmed this week. they were references from a member so they counted for us. haha but they are a cool family. the mom is from la costa chicka which is really close to my area in acapulco. we are teaching his son he is 18 and likes to drink so thats why he hasnt got baptized so we are going to work hard with him to help him out. we have also found alot of members that have family members that can get baptized so we are going to visit them all this week. so i am pumped to work here. i know that me and my comp can start to baptize every week if we keep working hard and talking to everyone. it is a really pretty area. there is alot of farmland here and it is green. we are teaching a guy that reminds me of grandpa hancock. he is pretty funny. ill have to see if i can get a pic of him. but yeah all is good here in puente de ixtla. galeana is a city that is next to us. but puente is its own little town. and my butt is doing good. i dont have any pain. and i dont think i have to go back to the doctor because no one has called me so i think i am good. and no i am not on antibiotics. just on silver. haha but that is cool that that guy got baptized. i remember going to his house with the misionarries. and it should be good to go and give a blessing to tims mom. that is sweet. that is awesome that you guys found a place with tacos al pastor. there is only one place in puente with tacos al pastor and i dont even know if they are good or not. but the food here is all good. nothing different. i love the food here. when i go back home i am going to miss the food. expecially the tortillas. i love tortillas. they are my favorite. i also love the fruit drinks that they make here. but yeah all is good. me and my comp are working hard and we are going to see alot of success here in puente. i am pumped to go to work tomorrrow. but i love you all very much. hancock ctr and stick together. oh yeah thats sweet that you have all lost weight. welcome to the club. i think i have lost a bunch of weight too. i am just a skinny short white boy now. haha but love ya.

elder hancock

Tranfers April 18 2011

Everything is good here in Galeana. i got transfered to Galeana. it is in Morelos it is about 40 min away from cuernavaca. it is a pretty sweet area. i recieved another mexican comp straight from the mtc. i am training again. he seems like a cool kid. his name is elder cerejo or something like that. haha he is another 18 year old mexican and is green as can be. haha i am way excited. i am opening this area here and my zone leader is elder roskelly so that is pretty cool. the zone here has really struggled but i have heared the ward i am in is really strong. our ward mission leader picked us up from the bus station and took us to our house and he is a returned missionary of a year or so. he seems like a cool guy. i am way excited to get to work. we are going to start visiting all the members and start getting to work. this area is full of a bunch of farmland of fields of corn and stuff. it is way cool. there are ruins in this zone and stuff like that. i am pumped. also this week on thursday me and my comp elder miguel went to cuernavaca for a conference with pres. it was for all the people that are going to train this change. salt lake 10 days ago made a new program and we are implamenting it here in the mission. pres said we might be the first mission starting this program. it is way sweet. it is a booklet of how to train a new comp. usually we study 3 hours a day but now we have to study 4 hours a day and 2 of those hours is studying with our comp. they gave us dvd players and movies that we use to learn in our comp study. it is pretty sweet. so we have a dvd player and it is a 12 week program and it is all focused on studying together with your comp to help him grow. it is pretty sweet. i am pumped to start studying tomorrow. we report every weeek to pres how we are progressing and everything. so that is that. also my kid elder miguel he is training a american. he has 3 month and he is training. so i am already a grandpa. haha but elder miguel is ready. he was a really good comp. i love that kid. we didnt baptize this week but it was a really cool. week. louisa the mom of miguel is ready to be baptized and we had 2 powerful lessons with her this week. she was going to get baptized on sunday but she didnt get to talk to her daughter so she is going to do it this week. thats ok she is my convert. haha elder miguel should baptize at least 8 people this next month. so that is good. it was hard to leave but all is good. judith and socorro my investigators were crying but it was all good. judith wanted me to thank you for being my mom and letting me go to her house and teach her. haha it was really sweet what she said. but i am pumped to work here in this area with my new comp and my new zone. there are alot of cool misionarries that got put in this zone. it should be sweet. everthing is good with my butt it is all closeing up good. i dont have any problems or anything. i just have to go back to get it checked and that is all. it is not infected. but thanks for all the prayers and everything. that is sweet that teisha tood 3rd. that is so cool. good job teish. keep up the missionary work and i love you all so very much. thank you for all that you have done for me. love ya. elder hancock