Elder Dylan Hutchings: Happy Easter

This week was crazy from beginning to the end. I just got a picture of AMAZING things that happened this weekend in Wilmington. Will got baptized!!! It was an amazing picture and I am so happy for him! Happy Easter!

Monday- We went and played laser tag and when I say laser tag I mean the coolest game of laser tag ever. So it was outside and what was really awesome was that it was real guns converted into laser guns!! It was the coolest thing ever! I was so impressed and it was just great! Really fun. We played a ton of games with it like a capture the flag thing and then like a survival one and it was crazy and just a blast!! Then that night we met Sharon who is really awesome. It was crazy how it happened. We were biking to visit a recent convert in the ward and we took a wrong turn. Well, we see one of the people we knocked on who said to come back some time and boom we find out she loves the church and has been missing it and wants to get back into it. She went to church for 2 years with her ex husband. It was funny and just crazy how it always works out! Then the recent convert was so cool! He has this ninja sword and he cut straight threw a water bottle with it it was so sharp!

Tuesday- We went out and we tried contacting some of the people the Elders had contacted before which usually never works but we found 2 new investigators. Ones name is Raymond and the other is Jackie. They are both awesome. We just found them on some notes in the area book and we decided to contact them and it worked! So that was really cool. We were able to get out with a member of the bishopric and we went and saw Michelle Peterson. While we were there she bore her testimony of the Book of Mormon and she is so close to being able to be baptized. It is so cool!! That night we went to see Jimmy but sadly he didn't answer so we haven't been able to see him this week but we will get in contact with him!

Wednesday- We had zone training and it was great. I gave some instructions. Other then that the meeting was really good haha we just had to get past the bad one;) hahah Later, I went on an exchange with some Elders and it was a great. Really fun and they are doing really good nothing really exciting happened but it was a good day!

Thursday- we finished our exchange and then we had interviews with President and Sister James and those were really good it was suppose to be 15 mins but both of mine were 30 haha!!! It probably wasn't good because I threw the schedule off but its all good. I was really able to talk with both of them and it was really great! We talked about obedience and it was just funny some of the comments by President and Sister James!

Friday- All i remember is my bike tire ended up flat and our appointments fell threw. It was a great day though because we were still able to find 2 new investigators. We got taken out to dinner at Chili's and it was really good! The members who took us out were friends with Elder Malyons family!

Saturday- we fixed my flat tire and then got to work. It went really good and it came time for our appointment that night and we were tracting in another area. We needed to get to where our appointment was and boom flat tire again!! I was so upset but I ran my bike all the way back and we were on time!! We were doing so good and then the appointment texted us and cancelled!! It's a good thing I had a ton of sweat beading because other wise you would have seen the tears hahahhahaha jkjk!!! So I fixed the bike and then we we went back out and at the end of the night it was flat again!! We called a member and they saved us by coming and giving us a ride home!

Sunday- I caught a lizard!! It was really awesome!! Then church was great. The Easter program was really really good the choir put it together. I really enjoyed it! Sadly we only had 1 person there and we were suppose to have like 4 or 5. It was lame but then that night we went to meet a part member family moving into the ward and we met them and then on the way home we met Joseph. He is interested in learning more about the gospel and it was really cool. This all happened while walking because my bike is still broken with a flat tire!

This week has been great and it was a great easter!! I hope y'all had a great Easter!

Love Elder Dylan Hutchings