July 25 2011

Sounds like everyone had a fun week with camp and fishing. haha Teisha thats awesome that there were alot of nonmembers that went to camp with you. keep up the good missionary work. but this week was really well. we have found alot of new families that we are teaching. this week we went to a family and the moms name is maribel and her son is noe and kevin and her moms name is socorro. they are a really cool family. Maribel told us when she read the book of mormon that she felt something that she has never felt before and that she knows that it is true. it was way cool. the problem is that she didnt go to church. i think her husband isnt letting her go so we need to talk to him so she can go. also this week we did alot of service which was fun. the first one was we pulled a bunch of weeds for this guy in our ward and in return he gave us a reference. also this week we went and helped soledad move all these rocks that she had. so i felt like i was back at home working. haha but it was fun. this week soledad and part of her family came to church. This week we found out that the daughter in law of soledad is a member. we have been teaching her for like a month and she just told us she had been baptized. her name is Janin and her husband is noe and noe is the son of soledad. haha they all went to church which was good. she got baptized when she was 15 and now she is 23. we had a really powerful lesson with noe. he was really effected when his little brother died and he had a whole bunch of questions about death and life after death we taught him the plan and he loved it. he started to cry. we taught him the spirt world and how the spirit world is here in the earth. i asked him if he as ever felt the presence of his brother after his death and he shared a cool experience when he saw his brother in white. it was really cool. this week we are going to baptize Marcos. he is the little son of soledad. he has 11 years. he is a cool kid. also we are teachin a kid and his name is javier. he is 19 and he just had a oporation on something in his stomach. we have taught him everything but the commandments he is a cool kid. he has read alot of the book of mormon and knows that it is true. he will get baptized next month. right now he cant leave the house to go to church but next month he should be able to. so the work is going good here in puente. today we played volleyball which was fun. but thats pretty much all that happened this week. we are working hard and we have found alot of cool families. i love you all very much. enjoy your trip. that will be way fun to go and see all the church sites and find our land that belongs to us. love elder hancock

ONE YEAR WEEK JULY 18 2011

Yeah i cant believe that i have completed one year in the mission. it has gone by way to fast. in reality i have less than a year if i have to go back a little early for school. by the way did you talk to coach or no. and how is the paper junk going. but this week was a awesome week. we saw alot of miracles happen this week. the first miracle was the baptism that we had. we baptized soledad. she is the lady that we found our first week here. it was really cool to see her get baptized. she has had so many problems in here life and it was cool to see her feel the peace and love that god has for her. she really felt it at her baptism and her confermation. about a year ago her 16 year old son died. she has like 12 kids. . she has 2 younger kids a 15 year old daughter and a 11 year old son. they went to church with her and they will get baptized in 2 weeks. we told her that if she wants to see changes in her family it has to start with her and she knows it and has taken the first step to do it. i know that with her example she will see the changes in her life. i was just so happy to see her get baptized. i have really felt that love that god has for her and her family. also the other miracle this week was we were walking to see nicolas and he wasnt there so i had a impression to visit a inactive family and they werent there and i was like that stinks so lets go to our other appointment a little early. so we went and a lady stopped us in the street and told us that her son has been looking for us and has talked to missionaries in tijuana and wants to talk to us. so the next day we went to their house and we found him and he was baptized 5 months ago and has the priesthood and everything. he gave us 8 references of his family and they are all really cool and willing to listn to us. so those were the miracles of the week. the spirit is in charge of all the miracles. haha. but my comp is fine. i love elder cornejo. we have gotten along really well. he really loves the people and is willing to work hard.. but this week for pday we played soccer on a turf field here that is small. it was pretty sweet. we had a tournament going which was way fun. i am writeing late because we went with a hermana that had food. and we made the food and it took forever. but all is good. my district is doing good. we already completed our goal of 8 baptisms and we are working to complete the goal for the zone which has never happend here in galeana. but we are going to do it this month. i want you to send me those videos of the ruins and stuff. we can watch movies like that of the church. so you can send me some movies like that. that would be pretty sweet. this week i have learned alot about the book of mormon and why it was written. almost every prophet in the book of mormon talks about the importance of the plates and their writings. it says that they wrote them for the children to come unto christ. our purpose as missionaries is to invite others to come unto christ and what better way to come unto christ reading the book of mormon. also there are alot of specific spriptures for the people here in south america. almost all of mormon and moroni is for them. they saw their posterity in these days and what they say is for them. . haha but i love the book of mormon and the power it has in the conversion of every person. but i love you all and i am thankful fo all you do for me. keep up the great work and have fun at camp. elder hancock

July 11 2011

All is good here in Puente. we almost had a baptism this week. _______ had a interview with president and pres told us that he needs to wait for 2 weeks to fix a few things. I knew that something was wrong with him because he kept telling us that he will tell us when he wants to get baptized. so we went with him and i told him straight up that i knew that he wasnt telling us something and he told us that he wasnt and he told us that he didnt want to tell us so i told him that there is someone that he can tell and that is pres. so he talked to him and i think all went well. i think he should get baptized in 2 weeks. and this week we found alot of cool families this week. we had 5 references from members and we had 7 people in church. so it was alot better this week. i didnt get changed this week. we had changes on saturday and i am still in puente with the same comp. i was glad i didnt get changed because of the people that we are teaching. The ward is starting to see the importance of missionary work and are starting to get excited. elder roskelly got changed and elder olsen came in as our zone leader. elder olsen was in my district from the mtc. he is so funny. i am excited for that. this week me and my comp just challenged everyone to be baptized it was pretty legit. it is alot easier to do that to see who is interested. that was fun. also in conveys little vans we just start teaching lessons to everyone.lt is pretty legit because you can see who is listning and who isnt and they have to listn to you. haha we have found alot of people doing that. i love this work and i am glad to still be in puente. that stinks about the guy that fell and died. and that is good that you went to the temple i want to go to the temple here. i should be able to go in a few months with investigators that will complete one year as members and can go. so i am pumped for that. but keep up the good work and keep shareing the gospel. love you all. elder hancock

July 4 2011

Everything is going good here in mexico. this week i had a 4 day conference with pres and his wife. it was way good. it was for all the zone and district leaders and thos that are training. it was way good. i learned alot. i learned that i have alot of things to improve on. there is aways room for improvement. for this week 2 more elders stayed in our house. they are serving in acapulco and chilpancingo which is pretty far away and they stayed in my house for the conference. so every day i was with elder anaya. he is a way good misionary i learned alot from him. so it was a good. week. we found alot of cool families this week but they didnt go to church. but thing happen. it has been hard here to get people in church here for some reason. i have done everything i can think of. this week we taught with members. we had members pass by for our investigators. we passed by for investigators and we also made phone calls and we had one investigator in church. so some weeks just stink. haha but it was ok. the plus is that we had 5 inactive members that we visited this week come to church. so that was good. but our investigators didnt. people just dont understand the doctrine. they dont understand the importance and are just plain lazy. haha but its alright we are going to work extra hard this week to get people to church. mom in my package i want a huge thing of whey protein from mustle milk. chocolate please. and the shirt needs to say whatever you want it to say. . and i want a huge bag of chips. and i want jelly. and i want oreos and nutter butters. and more protein bars or something. thanks mom love ya. tell teisha to send me picks from efy. sounds like tate is quite the fishermen. just let him know that when i get home that i will always catch the bigger fish. and thats good that he was watching my old games. maybe he learned a few good pointers of how a real athlete plays. haha and that is sweet that joel came over. he is a awesome kid. i cant believe you didnt invite him to church. haha he looks alot bigger. he has finaly beefed up a bit. thats sweet that he has a agent already. he better give me some of that money when he goes to the nba. haha he needs to remember who taught him how to shoot the ball. haha but everything is good here in puente. there has been alot of rain but i like it because that means that it isnt so hot. i love shareing the gospel and i know that there is angels that are preparing certain people to here the gospel. thats why i talk to everyone because you never know. my distric is doing really good. as a district we have baptized 5 weeks in a row. out of 22 district only 6 baptized every week and we were one of them. i have some really cool elders in my district. they work really hard and have alot of faith. one of them is . but yes mom that would be good if you can get a hold of coach. i still want to play. i love sports. today we played soccer. it was all the white kids against the mexicans that play everyday and we killed them and we never play. it was fun. haha but i knew that i needed to go because the notes you took are pretty clear. i shouldnt deny the answer that i have already recieved. pres uchdorf was pretty clear. so yeah i am still a falcon if i get back in. haha but i love you all very much keep up the good work and stay strong. keep praying for missionay experiences and i know god will give them to you if you have real intent to act on your answer. also pray specificly. alot of times we pray for and experience but that is pretty broud. you should ask things specificly to recieve a specific answer. example heavenly father what friend of mine is ready to recieve the gospel and he will give you a name. just a example. oh dad i was just thinking about that this week about our ancestors and how they taught the doctrine of christ. first adam taught the doctirne of christ then enoc then the apostles then christ then nefi then alma then christ again then our profet and apostles and our ancestors and so if all these people the doctrine of christ so do we. we are here to teach the doctrine of christ. thats why we inviete everyone to be baptized. love ya elder hancock

June 27 2011

ounds like everything is going well in texas. I did get my package and i have been enjoying my peanut butter. i ran out. so i need more. i cant find it here in mexico so send me a bunch of peanut butter and send me some more stuff to make cookies i have already made them on sunday. they were pretty good. the cookies in mexico stink. haha but this week was a good week but we didnt baptize. we went with nicolas almost everyday trying to show him that he is ready. i even read the seccions in dnc when christ is talking to oliver cowdry about the answeres that he has already recieved. i read that to him and put his name in instead of olivers cowdrys. we even brought i new convert alex to bare his testimony about baptism and he did it. it was a way powerful testimony. that made my week to here his testimony that he has gained and to see the change that he has made in his life. he wants to serve a mission and this week he just recieved the arronic priesthood. so that was way cool to see that this week. but this week we droped alot of people that werent progressing. that is always hard but it has to be done. and anacaren hasnt got permision. she is starting to be disanimated because of the problems she sees in her family and she thinks it is because she is going to our church. so that has been hard. we have done all we can. now it is up to the members to help us out. a member is going to pass by and talk to her and her grandparents so we are praying that that all goes well. but me and my comp are stil working hard and talking to everyone. and the couple that we are teaching we just cant find them. they arent home and they are not answering their phones so we hope we can find them. also we had like 5 investigators ready to go to the temple but the bus that has a contract with the church just changed the contract and the night before they had to cancel the trip. we were pretty bummed because we worked all week to have people go to the temple and it got cancled. we knew we could put our money on the temple. but things happen. next month we will have more people go. but all is good and we are working hard. we are starting to have consejo with the bishop and all the leaders each week. before it was just with

t he bishop but he planched everyone and everyone is going and they are makeing goals centered on missionary work. so that is good. if a ward wants to be successful it needs to focus on missionary work. if it doesnt then there is no progression. so thats good that the ward is starting to see the importance. i love this work and i have learned alot on my mission. there are things here that you learn that you cant learn anywhere else. i can see why every young man should serve a mission. i love this work and i love the people here. thats why it hurts when they dont progress. they dont understand what they are missing. but i love you all and sounds like everyone is doing good. tell teisha that she needs to keep here eyes open for my future wife. and tell chris kirk that i love him. also tell joel that when you see him. i cant believe that it has been 2 years that is crazy. that seems like forever ago. but yeah you can start the paper work i am going back to be a falcon. so yeah you can start. good luck with all that fun. haha but i love ya and keep up the good work. elder hancock

June 20 2011

Thanks dad. I guess you did work pretty hard on your mission. haha i just keeep telling my self that when the girls start looking good here that i just need to work harder and there is a wife with blond hair and blue eyes waiting for me. haha i just need to keep telling myself that. haha jk but i just wanted to wish ya a happy fathers day and let you know how much i love ya and i am thankful for all that you have done for me and our family. thanks for all you do. golf was alot of fun. i stunk but it was alot of fun. haha the golf course was way nice. it was legit. haha but love ya and thanks again. elder hancock

Everything is going good here in puente the only bad news is that we didnt baptize this week. Anacaren still hasnt got permision. we went to talk to her grandpa and she almost started crying because she didnt want us to talk to him, so we didnt. she told us that if we talk to him he wont let her go to church. so what we are going to do this week is have a have a member go and talk to him to tell him what we do and then we can talk to him. but i have faith that she will get baptized this week. she just needs a signature and she is ready to go. so we are going to do everything we can so that she can recieve these blessings this week. also nicolas is ready to get baptized but in the last second he said that he is going to wait. so we are going to show him all the blessings and answeres that he has recieved and we are going to planch him so he understands faith. haha he is a good kid he is just a little scared to act and do it. we are going to have the bishop come with us to talk with him. so we should have 2 baptisms this week if everything goes well. also the ward is going to have a ward temple trip and we asked the bishop to reserve spots so investigators can go so we have 10 spots to fill so that our investigators can go to the temple with the ward. i think this is a awesome idea so they can go to the visitor center and learn all that stuff and feel the spirit of the temple. so we are going to make sure that we have 10 people going to the temple on saturday. the couple we are teaching got fed with a bunch of anti this week. i hate when that happens. Ester has recieved an answer and then she got fed with a bunch of bull so we didnt even get to talk about marriage with them. we have a appointment with them this week so we are going to see how they are. so pray for them. i know she has felt something and she didnt say that we cant come by so that is good. so we are going to help them out. we just bore our testimonies to them and taught them how they can gain their own testimony. so that was this week. we found alot of cool people this week so that was good. the work is moveing along and all is good. i did my first baptismal interview this week. that was way cool. i think this is one of my newest favorite things is to do a baptismal interview. i did it with a 16 year old girl. she was way cool. its just cool to see the excitement that people have and the faith that they have to follow christ. it was a cool experience. thanks for all the support and love that you give me and i love you all very much. keep finding people for the missionarries. if you love your testimony share it. love ya elder hancock

June 13 2011

thanks for all the emails. it was good to hear from everyone. this week was really good. this week we had a miracle. we have really been working hard to baptize every week and so far this month we have done it. this week we were walking and ran in to a recent convert that just got baptized right before we got here and when i first got here we were teaching here 18 year old son named alex. he had problems with drinking and the ladies and his mom sent him to a alcohol place to have him stop drinking. he just got back this week and we went to visit him and the first thing he asked us was a blessing to stop drinking and to change his life. he hasnt drank for a month and a half and doesnt have any desire to do so. it was cool to see the change in his life. he told us he prayed the hardest he ever had while he was gone and really wants to change. after the blessing he told us he wanted to be baptized. so president did his interview at our stake conference that we had and he got baptized after. it was way cool. after he told us he finally felt clean. so now we are going to work with him so he goes to the temple this month with the ward and then prepare him for a mission. he is a cool kid. so that was the miracle of the week. Anacaren is ready to get baptized she just needs the permission. she fasted this week to get permision and the person from the seventy pres. Alonso spoke and spoke dirictly to her to do everything in here power to recieve this saving ordinance. so i know she will get baptized this week. we also had another investigator at the conference that is ready to get baptized. all of his family is members but him. we have taught him for a while and he told us this week that he is ready and then hes not ready. we told him just to listen to elder alonso and elder alonso and pres spanaaus all talked on baptism and just planched him so he will get baptized this week as well. so we should have two bapttisms this week. so we are excited for that. the stake conference was so good. elder alonso just planched the whole stake to do missionary work. it was so cool. he said i dont have fear to share my testimony with anyone because it is true. i have fear when the missionaries come to my house and i dont have a reference to give them. haha he was pretty bold. he had all of us missionarries go up and sing i am a child of god and then just planched everyone to work with us. it was sweet. haha it was a good conference. also we are working with this young couple that need to get married so pray for them so that the husband has the desire to get married. the wife she is ready to be baptised we are just working with him. so the work is moveing along. i love every min of it. and all is good with the district. all the new missionarries are good. im going on divisions with them to help them out. so every area in the zone baptizes. but today i wrote you early because there is a member that is going to get us in a golf course for free to golf. so i am going golfing. im pumped. it should be fun. but i love you all and thanks for all that you do for me. tell grams i got his letter and that i love him alot. it really meant alot to me. tell him i love him. i didnt get the package so it might still be in cuernavaca. but yeah. love ya elder hancock