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Family,

Yo.  Sorry this might be a short email, since I didn't budget my time as well as I should have, but hey that happen, you get to talk to me in like 2 weeks anyways so don't complain.  

But this week is good.  Nothing to exciting wich is fine because we have some crazy weeks coming up for us, as in.  Time is going to cruise by.  But sister holmes and I are doing great.  She is one of my favorite companions.

Then our area is doing great.  This sunday we had 171 attendance, which is the most I have ever seen on my mission.  Flor passed he interview and will hopefully getting baptized this week.  Oh other IBD marciana lost her job and had to move... So we are no longer teaching her.  But the elders are teaching her and she still should get baptized.  It was funny even though she moved she just came to our branch and not theirs because she likes our branch, and she brought her kids with her, it was awesome.  Then mina's brother klong klong came to church this week.  That was exciting.  He absolutely love it.  He said he really wants to sacrifice for god and walk to church or some.  He is great, he loves the gospel so much, and its funny because on the outside he is this tough guy who you would never think loves the gospel, but he love it, it is great.

Anyways that is all for this week.  Stay tuned though because we have.. MISSION CONFERENCE this week, and I am seriously so excited!

I love you all. Keep enduring to the end

Sister Hancock

Init gihapon.

Family,

Hey. 

Love you,

Sister hancock

Alright just kidding, I guess I will spend time to update you all about my life.  Life is going well.  And it is going way to fast.  It scares me, I don't like it.

But for new of my life, so for starts we went on splits the week with our kabalay, sister Mumu and Sister Legaspi.  I went with Sister Mumu, she is a new missionary who is still in training and is from fiji.  She has a ton of energy so the split was really fun!  She is still working on learning the language and teaching and things, but she is fearless so that is always a great attribute.

Also this week we have a missionary family history activity.  It was good I got to help a recent convert with her line which was good.  It was weird for me to use the computer something besides email, I think I have forgotten how to use the email.  But as well I got to help sister Mumu and we found the grandma who raised her, and reserved her so she could take her to the temple.  She was smiling all day and wrote me a note to thank me, which was really cute.

As for the work, this week we have seen a lot of progress.  Both Marciana and Flor went to church and are having their baptismal interviews this week so that is exciting.  The we had all of our really gahi less actives at church this week and they all brought friend with them.  So we had 5 investigators at church this week, which was exciting!  And we were just amazing those less active came to church, because they are really so gahi and are the ones who hide from us if the can, but the came and I was freaking out, wahoo!

As well I forgot, I gave a talk this sunday.  It is amazing how much better you get at public speaking on the mission, because literally all my preparation was I looked for 5 scripture.  And this was a talk in bisaya.  i could have never done that before my mission.

Anyways life is good.  My companion and I are good.  And I am happy.  Love you all, and have a very amazing week!

Sister Hancock

Conference

Dear Family,

Hows life?  Hows america?  How is everything?

I am doing well.  This week has been good, although mostly my report will probably be about conference because there haven't been much changes in my life.  I love conference, it was great.  Watching it as a missionary is the best thing ever!  I love Uchdorfe talk because it probably was the one that called me to repentance the most.  But he is great, I love our prophet and apostale.  Also I don't know about there, but we didn't get any kind of translation for the spanish talk so mostly we just laugh and I tried to pick out bisaya words.  I think spanish stole some words from bisaya ;).  I guess bisaya is just the best language.

As well Flor and Marciana came to conference!  I don't think marciana liked it very much because it was all in english... but I tried to translate somethings for her and help out.  But she was really really excited to see the prophets and the apostles (oh man I am so mix up because I spelt this word in bisaya, I can't speak straight english, literally).  Flor is doing great, her live in partner is still gone, and if all things go according to plan the should both be baptize on May 2nd which will be great.  Also Mina is still coming to church and we started teaching her brother who is not a member who is ver "discontent" with his religion right now.  Other then that recently we have been finding some really good investigators, so it has been really really good. 

Other then that my life is the same because I am with the same companion in the same area, and I am really happy.  Life is going really well for me.  I hope you guys are great, sorry it is a short one, but it has only been 4 days since my last one haha, I love you all.

Sister Hancock

Semana Santa

Dear family

Well before I get into my week, we got transfer calls and guess what?  I am staying with Sister Holmes in Bogo.  It is the first time I haven't had a new companions or new area since training and I am super excited because adjustment is always stressful, and I am excited that I don't have to worry about that. So bogo for life!

Lets see at the beginning of this week we had MLC.  I was they craziest MLC I have ever been to because we are experimenting with new ways of reporting, before we would just report average lessons taught in a week, number of total baptisms, and implementations, but this one was an open and you did whatever you wanted.  It ended up being an open forum with a lot of discussion which was good because we got new idea how to help the zone, but it was way to long, so they are going to try and fix it for next time.  But because of that they weren't able to do as many workshops, so instead of reteaching a workshop we had to write our own for ZTM.  It was fun I guess, it went well so that is good haha.

This week was also holy week here.  Catholics here go crazy for it.  I don't know what Catholics do it the states for holy week, but here it is crazy.  They have parade in the street with float with saints on them (especially in our area because we have the huge catholic church in our area, which meant this week I got to see a lot of culture things haha.)  The also don't eat any meat but fish, why I have no idea, they said it is fasting or something I thing.  And the traditional food the eat is banignit, which is really good, I will hopefully send a picture of it, but it is unfortunate because there is no way I could ever make it in america :(.  But this whole week our area has been over crowded because of holy week, but it was good because one night we got punted from our lesson, so we decided to use the time to had out these cards with a movie that we were give, and because of how many people where in our area we ended up handing out 500 cards in 1 hour and 1/2.  It was actually really fun.

Then as far as work.  Both Flor and Marciana came to church!  And I have huge new, Flor kick out the man that was living in her house (they don't have a relationship apparently but our mission president said he needs to leave anyway for her to get baptized.  We have been waiting on this one act for so long now and it happen, so they are both on track to be baptized, Wahoo!  It makes me excited!  I keep you updated on them.

Anyways that was a long email, so I will stop there, but I love you all so much.  I hope you have great weeks and Happy Easter!!!

Love you,

Sister Hancock