Elder Machan is awesome! He is from
El Paso. He says he goes to the Ciudad Juarez. Really crazy right. He
says that the youth cant go sometimes because it is so dangerous. It
was rated the most dangerous city in the world a few years ago. And no
he doesnt have a texan accent. He went to BYU before his mission. I
have no idea what we are doing for Christmas. I dont think they tell us
until like the week before I have no idea. I dont think that Tejupilco
is the farthest area in the Mission. I think I that it is like in the
middle in mission. I honestly have no idea where we are. It is
actually funny. Not exactly where we are. Did you look it up on google
earth? It is such a cool area. Diferant. We see our Zone like every
few weeks i think. I am not sure. But We have not seen them yet. It
is just Elder Machan and I and our District leader and his companion in
this area. It is way cool. the Distance wont affect anything on mail.
It all goes to the zone and we get it when we have our Juntas on
tusdays. The only problem is is that we only go a few times a change.
But thats alright.
Well this week was a chalangeing one and diferent.
We started the Nuevo Enfoce this week. It is somting that will change
the mission and missionary work but for us the only problem is is that
we had a hard time getting the refrerences. It will take time for the
mind set to change but its all good. We went this week with old
investigators and it didnt work to well. There are a lot of streets
here that dont have names. And so in turn it is really hard to find
these people if they dont have an adress.
So we cleaned our house today. It was SO gross.
Elder Morales and Elder Rosas helped us. But it took us just about all
day to clean. But now it is so nice. Before there were bugs
everywhere. SPIDERS!!! tuesday night we were walking up the stairs to
go to bed and at the top of the stairs on the wall was a scorpion. It
was super startaling. We didnt know what to do but we had to kill it.
So that was a really comforting thought of having a scorpion in the
house right before bed It was actually kind of funny expireience. I am
just not used to those.
Being with Elder Machen is awesome. We only speak
spanish. And because of that my spanis is getting so much better. We
worked so hard this week to find people to teach. We found this mom
with three little kids that is really sweet. her husband is in the
United States working I think. We started teaching her this week. She
seems really animated about the church. But we brought her to church
yesterday. i dont think I have ever been so stressed out at work
yesterday. It was really bad. There isnt a church building here in
Tejupilco. We meat in a casa de oracion. And so fitiing 40 people in a
little room is really tough. But it is really stressful for
missionaries when investigators dont feel anything at church. So that
was the only frustrateing thing about yesterday. It was super awesome
but church was hard because it was really hard to feel the spirit.
Yesterday we found one of our investigators home.
His name is Roberto. He is an amazing man but he has a lot of
problems. He is around 60 and has 15 children with 6 or 7 diferant
wives. Yesterday he told us that his 16 child was born. His new
girlfriend is like 25 and his situation is bad. He told us yesterday
about growing up in a comunity with bad things. Drug cartels and things
like that. He has had such a hard life. But we taught such a powerful
lesson yesterday. It was really such a beautiful thing to see what the
spirit of the Lord does to people. I could litterally see a change in
his heart and a desire to follow Christ. There is no bigger joy in this
world than to see the joy and happiness the gosspel brings. Because
truly being on my mission has made me see that we cannot be happy
without the gosspel. It has changed me as a person. Seeing the changes
in my life have been amazing. Without the gosspel it would have been
impossible. I love you all so much.
Always and forever
Elder Hancock
Helaman 5:12
we
saw these spiders yesterday.. They are HUGE. There are like five
around where this is. They sit on like 5 foot in diamiter webs . they
have to almost be as big as a base ball!!!
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