Hey family,
Wow sounds like this past week was really great. I am
really sad to hear about (LOVED ONES). I will pray for them.
This week was such a great week. We had so many
miracles happen. Gabriel the man I told you all about last week was
baptized yesterday. He has such a desire to follow Christ. Being
able to see this change in him is so amazing. I am so very grateful
for this.
We have been teaching a daughter of a less active
family. She told us that she wanted to get baptized but nothing came out
of it. She said that she would get baptized for like three or four weeks
now. But it has not happened. They were baptized two or three years
ago but they have not been too church since their baptism. Instead they
got like 15 times a month to the Universal Church. We talked with
Elizabeth (the daughter) a few days ago and asked her if we could visit
with her and she told us we couldn't because she was going to be at that
church. We have talked to a lot of people that go to that church and they
all say that it is a true church because they do miracles. We were really
upset about this. I will not say anything about other churches but this
one really upsets me because we were trying to set a goal with the family to
enter the temple. The thing is that Satan can do miracles. He
will fool us with anything. He uses other churches to lure us away from
the truth. We must be so very careful. It is very rarely that he
flat out lies to us. He can even trick us into feeling good about sinning.
The way we must avoid this is by doing the small and simple things.
Reading the Scriptures going to church praying are all things we must do to
avoid these things in our life.
Elder Porter and I were talking last night. I was
telling him some doubts that I had. He told me something that really
changed my mission and my life. He told me I need to LIVE the gospel of
Christ. We teach it every day: Faith, repentance, baptism,
gift of the Holy Ghost, Enduring to the End. He was telling me that this
gospel is a lifetime thing. We are baptized once but we MUST take the
sacrament EVERY week to be worthy to keep the spirit with us.
But when it is a process we can't just cant say the same person.
Enduring to the End means we can't go back to the person we were
before. We have to stay in constant motion. It is the ONLY way we
can become perfect. I have been struggling a lot with
thinking lies about myself, things that are not true. Satan works his way
into our lives with little thoughts about us. Through
doubting. But if we doubt we cant have faith. And when we do
not have faith we cannot do the other things. Without faith we will
not be moved to Repent for the things we do wrong. We must
remember who we are: Children of our
Father in Heaven. We cannot be trapped in the lie of saying that we
are not good enough. We are. It is a flat out lie. But we
must go on. We must Endure to the End and NEVER return to who
we were. I will NEVER return to who I was before my mission. I
am so grateful for this principal.
Satan will always be attacking us but if we are built on the
Rock of Jesus Christ WE WILL NOT FALL.
I love you all thank you for the prayers.
Always and Forever,
Elder Hancock
Helaman 5:12
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