Hola Family!!
Well my week was FABULOUS!!!
Not too much happened but it was great. Working in the
FABULOUS Work of the Lord. It's so FABULOUS! Elder Porter is
FABULOUS! I am learning new things from him every day. We got
news that the guy that owns our apartment is upping the Rent. So the
mission told us that we have to find a new one...In one week the
funny thing is that we got the news three weeks ago. Don't
procrastinate. Its bad. I should have learned that in High School.
We are still having a little bit of trouble finding people
to teach. We are doing all we can to find them. When we love we
will have a greater desire to follow the Commandments of the Lord AND serve His
glorious children.
A few weeks ago we had a man named Gabriel walk up
to us telling us that he heard things about the church and that people were
saying how FABULOUS it would be to be baptized but he told us that he didn't
want us to teach him at his house because his family is REALLY Christian and don't
like us very much and so he said he would call us. We waited two weeks
for him to call us. Last Monday around 4 he called us telling us that he
really wanted to talk to us. We went to where he was working and
told us that he really wanted to be baptized. He is such an amazing
person. Yesterday he went to church and is preparing for his baptism next
week. We are so excited for him.
Yesterday we were looking for a man that we had been
teaching. But while we were knocking on his door two men came up to
us. One was so drunk he was just falling over into buckets of
water. The other was high but this man started talking to us. He
was telling me about his wife and three really young children. He was telling
us about he wants to change his life. He was telling us about his
problems and the first thing we told him to do was to stop the things he was
doing. It was super sad to me to see these two men like this. He
told me that he couldn't stop. The Devil just has such power over us when
we are doing these things. But we can escape. It is never to late
for us. He puts these lies into our heads to get us to stay down.
He then proceeded to tell us that he has faith in God that he loves him.
Which is so true. But faith has two parts to believe and to act. We
must always act. We must always repent. But we are able to do
it. Christ paid for our sins. So why should we suffer for
them. The feeling of freedom when we repent is the greatest feeling we
could have. I know I have felt it. The Atonement is the greatest
gift of all. He is there. He is waiting for us to come to
him. We cannot wait to repent. We want the freedom now.
We just got back from interviews with the President.
It was so amazing but it was the Last one we would have with President
Villarreal. It was so amazing. I am so grateful for him and how he
has changed my life forever. I love him so much. But while we were
waiting the Assistants were talking with us. Elder Christoferson (I went
to school with him) was telling us about the word MORE. Being a
missionary there is always MORE that we can do to be better missionaries but
more important to be MORE like Christ. If we are always doing MORE than
we did yesterday to be more like Christ we are always progressing. We
must always do MORE to serve the people around us. Just the way Christ
did. He is a perfect example for us. We must always strive to
do MORE.
I love you all so much I am so grateful for your love
and support.
Always and forever
Elder Hancock
Helaman 5:12
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