Happy Thanksgiving - Welcome back to Wilmington - First District Meeting!!!

Well this last week was pretty crazy.  Monday I  had one last dinner at the White's house.  It was pretty great. We ate chicken pot pie. An investigator that I have been teaching was able to come and have dinner with us so I was able to say good bye to her. I taught her a lot and it was pretty scary because she almost wasn't able to join us!!  It got worked out some how and she was able to join us. We also got to hang out with one of the priests named E.  He is super cool and he went out to Jordan Lake with us.  We played some sports with him and the rest of the zone. It was cold but everyone was there and I was able to see a ton of people before I had to leave!! It was a really good day. We found boomerangs that night and we went and were throwing them and I kept throwing mine in the pond by our house!!!  It was lame so we fished it out with Elder Dobsons fishing pole!!  It was a great last day in Cary and tons of fun!!

Tuesday was transfers and Brother Mills from the ward drove me to where I needed to be.  I took a picture of all of my stuff at the couch it was pretty great. I got to transfers and found my ride and found Elder Peseta (my new companion) and we rode down with a member to Wilmington.  I forget his name but he is really awesome. We got to Wilmington and got right to work but sadly with all our tracting we didn't find anyone but we got out and worked. It was really fun to be able to work here.  I  unpacked that night and planned my first district meeting!!  It was pretty fun and kinda stressful but the zone leaders helped me out.

Wednesday was my first district meeting and it went pretty well (a bit rough) but it should smooth out over time and be better!! I got to meet my district and it is so good to be back here - a little weird but good. Not to much happened the rest of Wednesday but we went tracting and it was cool we met a guy named Steven.  He let us come right in and we taught him.  We are going to go back and teach him more but he is really nice and offered us a ride home!!

Thursday turkey day!! Started it off with some turkey bowl and just like always my team won!!!  I made an awesome catch and ran it for a long ways!!  It was a way intense game and kinda scary haha.   We got to visit a less active member named Gary Martin and it was really awesome.  He was surprised to see us but you could tell it made his day. We ate dinner at the Van Slykes - the assistant ward mission leader.  He is really fun and so is his family.  It was a great dinner.  They don't so anything different just turkey and the usual.  Elder Peseta and I ate way to much.  Then we went and visited a few members and we found an investigator while on our way there. We were definitely lead to him because we walked the wrong way and bumped into him!!!  If we would have walked the right way we would have missed him! Then that night we bikee to the sisters house to get the car because I had a meeting on Friday and the district leader from Shallot came and spent the night that night so we could go to the meeting that next day.

Friday we got up at 4 a.m.!!! to head back up to Raleigh for the leadership meeting.  I got to drive to Wallace where we joined the other leadership and headed the rest of the way there.  It was a super long trip but it was really good and it helped me know more of what I am doing.  We got back to Wilmington around 4 and we went out to tract and we found a bunch of potentials  so that was great. 

Saturday was good - we did lots of tracting and I got a haircut from a member who did a really awesome job!!  Its different but looks really good!!!

Sunday was my first Sunday here and I actually knew a few people in the ward.  The bishop here is really missionary minded and it is really great!! We had dinner with a recent convert and I got all caught up with the ward it was a really good day.  We even found a man named Ryan who is really prepared for the gospel!!!

Really great week and I am looking forward to being here and I am sending pictures!!!

My new address: 

3403 Wilshire #103 
Wilmington NC 28403

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving

Love y'all

Elder Hutchings

Elder Dodson and I - the last ride!!!

Elder Dodson, Taniyeah and I

The fabulous White Family

All my stuff!!! (Way too much!!!)

Elder Peseta being diligent!!!

Elder Peseta and I at our first District Meeting - he is from Hawaii!!!!

Headed to Wilmington!!!

So this week was suppose to be really awesome but sadly almost all of our appointments fell threw!!!  So we just tracted a ton and didnt really have much success. We did have 2 really awesome meetings. So one was with a lady named Iris Scott and I mentioned that we found her last week.  We had a lesson with her and she is so prepared to be baptized!! We had such a spiritual lesson in which we invited her to be baptized and she excepted.  It was really amazing and we got our ward mission leader there with us and he testified of the truthfulness of the gospel and it was just a true blessing. 

We also met with William and sadly he is being admitted to the hostipal but it will be all good!  We talked to him about this life and how it is to feel joy.  We were able to express our love for him and allowed him to know that we are here for him.  He is going threw a really hard time and we just wanted him to know that!! 

On sunday it was announced that I am leaving Cary !!!  It was good because we got Taniyah to church and she is so ready for baptism!! It was great to see all of the memebers who came up and thanked me for all my service in this area and were sad that I have to go. So now is the question to where, well, I got a call saturday night from President James!!!  He called me to go back to Wilmington (I was in Leland which is right next to Wilmington).  I am going to be a District Leader there in that area so i will be over Leland too. Kinda funny!!!  It will be great to be back there and I will get the address as soon as I know where I'm at. I will be back over with Elder and Sister Martin (the couples missionaries who moved in when I was there)   I am so excited to see them too. So yes it is great. It was funny though because I thought that I was in the clear for a call but President James suprised me and I got one haha!!!  I know wherever I go I am needed. 

It will be hard to leave Cary because I have loveed it here so much but it will be good that Elder Dobson is staying. 

Today is gonna be great  - we have a zone activity at Jordan Lake (once again no swimming - ha ha)  that will be so much fun!!  We are also going to have dinner with the Whites and an investigator named Tori who is super awesome.  I did want to  say bye to her before I leave.  

So great day and great week just boring and slow but that is how it goes some days. Next week I will send the video of me riding my bike and I video taped it while riding and took a selfie!! :))) Love you have an awesome week!!!  I will be in Wilmington on tuesday and I'll get you the new address asap!!!

Love to all

Love Elder Dylan Hutchings

Good Basketball Skills!!!

Monday was super cool -  tons of elders and sisters were at the apex stake center and it was really awesome because there was a ton of basketball going on!!  I was on the team that never lost.  We won every game we had because we had 2 of the best and tallest guys on the team!!  That is why we won but I like to think it was because of my good looks and winning skills!!!  LOL!!  It was tons of fun because there was over 70 missionaries at the stake center and there were some I had never met or seen before!! I was so tired afterwards and just worn out from all of the playing!! Elder walker was there and everything so it was like a huge party thing with tons of sports. Sadly our appointment that were planned for afterward got cancelled with a man named Marvin so that was upsetting.  We went and tracted which was fun and we met a few really nice people.

Tuesday was the exchange with the Cary second missionaries who are the zone leaders and I went to their area and got to ride in a car.  That was amazing because my butt hurts from all of the biking!! It was cool because we went tracting and we knocked on this ladies door and we got to rake her leaves.  We think she had Alzheimers  but she was funny and super nice and very great full for our help. We then went and did contacting on the NC state campus and we tried passing out cards and just talking to people which isn't the most effective all of the time.  We were laughing and talking about how no one there knows how to wear any clothes but we got a few peoples numbers while there so we can contact them later which was cool. Then we had dinner with a member who made us homemade pizza that was really good and it was cooked on this weird cooker that had a heater and spun around.  It was interesting!! That night though we met a young lady knocking doors who went on a rant about how people are immodest and just the lowering of standers which was really funny because elder Berzintski and I were ranting about it after contacting at the college. 

Wednesday we had what is called zone training which was really good and helped us to find the 6 new investigators.  We found them threw what is called spiritually creating and then we put it to the test that day we went and followed the spirit to knock doors.  We met Anne Rogers who was ready to hear about the gospel and we taught her the restoration on her door.  She wanted us to come back and share more. Then we went and committed some members to go and invite some of their neighbors to meet with us and they said they would after we had a powerful lesson on how members can be blessed by doing missionary work.

Thursday- Sadly our two appointments cancelled but we didn't give up we went up to the northern part of our area to tract.  We got let right into a door and it was crazy because we gave them a bible - where in the south EVERYONE has one but they didn't and they were ready for the gospel.  It was amazing!! Then we met this awesome older lady with no teeth and we shared the restoration with her and she wanted us to come back!!  She was super nice and guess what her name is (Glenda) It was amazing to see how she was placed in our path.

Friday- we were out tracting and this lady started bashing with us and it was quite sad because Elder Dobson and I proved her wrong but she didn't want to listen so we ended up leaving and Friday was pretty uneventful.

Started saturday by meeting Dante who is a really nice guy who let us right in and offered us beer and weed it was pretty funny!!  Don't worry I said no I think haha jkjk!!!!  I said no but we taught him the plan of salvation and are going back Wednesday so it will be interesting to see. It was super funny to because we also told him about the word of wisdom haha. We went and delivered a bible to a man named Osmund who had an interesting thought on the second coming so we talked with him about that but he said to come back later after he had a chance to read so we will do that this week!!! Then I got my bike fixed and the guy was awesome!!!  He only made me pay for parts and gave me a really great discount so I will write him a thank you note!! Then that day we met Iris Scott and she was so prepared to have us come!!  She had already met with missionaries and had a baptism date and is so ready but we are going to teach her everything again because we couldn't find a record of her teaching after we had to play detective but it was fun!!

Sunday was great because I fit into my suit that is silver!!  It fits perfectly and it looks dang good!! (It's the one from prom before I left on my mission that did NOT fit)   We taught two lessons at church one about our heavenly family and the other about missionary work to the priests.  It is always fun to teach them because they are funny guys and we just have a great time in there with them. We after church got to go give a blessing to Iris with Brother White who had met her before.  It was powerful and the words spoken were just amazing I cant even describe them in words. After that we had to track Brother White back down because left our phone in his car but we got it back so that was good!! That is mostly all for the week!!

Hope everyone has a great week

Love

Elder Hutchings

Elder Dodson and I - looking good!!

Ultimate Frisbee at the Lake

So on Halloween we got to go to the lake and it was really fun.  It was super pretty up at the lake and we played some ultimate Frisbee  which was a blast.  Then we went swimming haha just kidding just kidding!!!!  We didn't swim but it was tempting - it looked so good and it was beautiful!!!  HaHaHa It was great because all the elders were there. 

That night I kept the tradition alive and my companion and I went and got pizza!!!  We ate it at a place called bond park and it was super cool.  We did have to bike it there though but it was fun!  We went and passed out candy at some members house, the Whites, who are a super fun family!! 

Flash forward to Wednesday and apparently our ride for district meeting almost forgot us!!!  It was really funny but we made it and it was really good. We had a really good Wednesday and it was tons of fun but Thursday is when it got really crazy. So we were sitting there planning and all of a sudden we get a call from President James and we had interviews with him!!  So we biked to the stake center and we were super unprepared and it was funny and crazy but we made it and we still had a good day! 

We were then able to go and teach 2 lessons and both of them were really good.  We were able to talk about baptism with one of the investigators named William and it was really great. The other investigators name is Martha and she is pretty sweet!!   It has been really great to be teaching them!! 

Then this Sunday was stake conference and it was really good but what was really cool was that Frank Jackson who plays football from duke and Justin Anderson who plays lacrosse from University of North Carolina both came and did a fireside.  It was so cool to be there and meet them it was super amazing!! 

Saturday was boring, we knocked like 100 doors and it was so hard!! But this week has been really good and tons of fun!! It has been really great to be out here and it is so weird that it is November!!

Love Elder Hutchings

Ultimate Frisbee at the lake

Run in with the Thorn Bush - it won!!!

I love my chocolate milk!!!

My ghost tie for Halloween!!!!