Good Pranks

My new companion is Elder Jensen and he is from Pasco Washington so that is pretty cool! He has been out a year and a half so he is my oldest companion but we are co-senior companions.  I am no longer a junior companion so its kinda weird.  I have been co senior since I left Leland so that is kinda crazy but it really doesn't  mean anything - we are just hear to preach the gospel.  

My zone leaders, Elder Christensen and Elder Lingman pulled a pretty good prank on me this morning!!!  It was good!  I was suppose to have an interview with President James but they got told that I actually didn't have the interview and they were suppose to tell me but they didn't!! They thought it was so funny when they showed up to pick me up and I was in my suit and they were just like oh its P-day!!! hahahhaha loser it was funny and good! 

So now here we are today on P-day and no interviews!!. It has been a really good week.  We had three really great lessons and we have a baptismal date set for a young lady in two weeks!!  Her name is Taniyah and she has been so interested in learning the gospel and watching her learn and grow.  I am very excited to be able to be the one to baptize her so that is pretty exciting!! 

It has been really good just helping Elder Jensen get to know the area and the people.  Its been fun and we have been working hard.  He has this spiritual impression that we are gonna find 3 family's here so were are working hard to find them.  We have met some really awesome nice people so far but that is about it.  It has been a good week with a lot of tracting and biking!

Love Y'all
Elder Hutchings

Risky business

This week has been pretty good, we started it off on monday with a game of Risk. It was so much fun and we really got to see some the true character of missionaries (LOL) but it was a lot of fun! We also played some basketball but not very much.  Then that night it was pretty fun we went and had a lesson with this lady and she is super awesome.  She has some really interesting thoughts.  She believes in like bigfoot and psychics and stuff its pretty interesting but it is fun! 

Tuesday was good we went and did some service. I bought this really awesome tie for a dollar again! Then we cleaned all day it was pretty great the house so so clean and smelled so good! 

Wednesday was the last district meeting and I am the only elder that is staying so it will be fun. But Wednesday we went on an exchange and I got to drive all day, it was amazing!  I have been biking so much it felt so good to drive.  We got lost but it was fun and we drove by NC State. 

Thursday I honestly don't remember to what we did but the weekend was really good.  We got 2 lessons with this one girl and it was fun to see how much the gospel has helped her and changed her for the better.  Then we taught this really awesome lady who has some pretty interesting things going on in her life.  We were able to teach her about prayer and she prayed with us.  She is really starting to build her relationship with god and it is really amazing to see! This week has been awesome!

Sunday we got a call from president James.  I was so worried that I was getting a call but luckily it was for Elder Garrick.  It was funny, he didn't believe me at first and this was all before church so it was good.  So I am not getting transferred but Eler Garrick got called to be a trainer!!!  This is the second time that my companion got called to be a trainer in a row.   Elder Garrick was totally shell shocked.  He didn't believe it but it was good. So we got him like all packed up and while we packed him up we spaced bag packed ourselves it was pretty funny.  Tomorrow I get my new companion and I stay in Cary though so that was good! Also, we had this totally cool spiritual prompting that we needed to bike home the other day and then it started pouring so hard.  It was a total miracle!

Love Elder Hutchings

Rainy days and Nasty Flavors!!!

This week was pretty great - we had some fun times!! On the fourth we had our Hawaiian event that President James set up and it was great!  That day was awesome!!  We had an awesome zone activity where we had a water balloon fight and some other water stuff.  It was so much fun! 

Then Tuesday was just a bunch of tracting (everyone else was recuperating from the fourth) and then we got rained on.  It like dumped!!!  It was great and we were soaking wet! It was so much fun then we got rained on the next day too!!  I was with my district leader and that night we had a jelly bean game with these nasty flavored jelly beans and some good ones.  Who ever spit out the bad ones first lost.  It was so gross but i won!!!!  I even ate a barf flavored one - it was horrid!!!  Elder Carlisle lost and he had to eat 2 rotten milk jelly beans!!  I will send the video of it home -  hopefully soon!

Thursday was a lot of fun, we got to do random service for this lady and we really enjoyed it.  Then we rode in the rain again! We had a great time.  A bunch of our investigators were suppose to come back this week but they didn't but it is all good.  We found an old investigator who is crazy but our lesson was amazing so it all works out!

Looking forward to the next week!!

Love and miss y'all

Elder Hutchings

We carved a watermelon for the 4th!!!

Happy 4th of July

Happy 4th of July from North Carolina!!

Well this week has been pretty fun.  Today we are having another zone activity and kind of partying because its the fourth.  Unfortunately no fire works for us.  We will be working but lucky us, we will  get to go to a Hawaiian cultural event!!!  President James asked his sister to put it on for us and she is married to a Hawaiian!!   Can't wait it will be pretty cool!!!

It's been weird not working at the firework stand this year.  I have worked there for the last 3 years.  We heard fireworks the other night and I like totally got all homesick for a second!!!  LOL!!!   but its all good!!

This week has been good but it has been pretty boring all of our investigators left for the holiday/3 day weekend.  So its been long days of tracting with little to no success.  We will keep trying and get back with them when they return.  

We have a barbecue with a member tonight which should be fun and a member said i have an awesome bike!!! It is an  awesome bike!!  Loving it since we ride 30 to 40 miles a day!!!

Love Everyone - Have a great 4th of July

Elder Hutchings

Here's where 30 to 40 miles of biking gets you!!!

North Carolina is awesome.

Elder Garrick and I love it!!!

It's so amazing!!

Elder Hutchings looking good!!!