#HereComesChristmas

Monday- Elder Robinson and I had a pretty boring day! Haha we ended up playing scrabble, and I found out that there are a bunch of words that I didn't know were actually real words! It was quite funny, but in the end my vocab wasn't the biggest!!!  So I ended up losing but we had fun while we were at it! We also took some time and made our planners for this next transfer! Mine is pretty cool it is Christ opening the eyes of a blind man! It is pretty awesome, it was going good. Then Curtis called us and asked if y'all eaten lunch yet?  We were able have lunch with him.  We went to this really good Mediterranean place it was a Gyro that I got and it was great!! We had a good time, then that night we went out and were tracting a ton. That's pretty much what I remember!

Tuesday- We had an accounting call and it was pretty sweet, the zone leaders and us were talking about what was coming for transfers and it was pretty great! They had some pretty interesting perspectives on who all might be leaving! It was a good day though and we tracted a ton. We went and saw this investigator of ours named Joe.   Joe thought he was buff and so we had a competition to see who could do more push ups... Well I won and he said he would come to church! Which he ended up not coming!  Then we were tracting not to far from Joe and we were able to find 2 people who were interested in us coming back and teaching their families more! The rest of the night was pretty great.  We were able to see a recent convert. She was doing pretty good and it was good to see her!  Then we went and visited some investigators who we had an appointment with and we took Tyson one of the people getting ready for his mission.  Unfortunately the appointment fell through, it was the worst! But we got to visit a few people!

Wednesday- We had a bunch of appointments scheduled and it was pretty booked. Then all of it slowly fell through. We had one appointment that morning and it had to be rescheduled which was alright and it gave us time to tract.  We met this lady named Rebetha.  She was nice and she knows one of the members of the ward! So that was cool, then we swung by a few other people that afternoon and ended up not catching them.  We were able to knock on Eric's door. He is this really spiritual guy who was like oh yea if I could have more scripture on Christ I would read it immediately! So we scheduled to come back Thursday and teach him more so that was really cool! It was a pretty good day.  That night we had a good time as we went out and our appointments fell through. One after the other cancelled on us.  We ended up with one left which was good because we had a member coming out with us. Then we got there and they ended up not being really interested in continuing so we got dropped.  It was alright though, it wasn't there time yet!

Thursday- Eric was there for his appointment, so that was really great and we were able to teach him more about the Book of Mormon and he was really interested! So we set up a time next week to come back! That afternoon we did an exchange with some elders, I was with Elder Lowe in Wake Forest. We had a good long time to tract and we met some really nice people and we were able to share with them the Christmas initiative "Light the World". It works really great at softening people up to talk to us and be able to share more with them! Then what was really cool was we knocked on this super sweet older guys door.  He wasn't interested in learning more but he was super cool and had investigated before!

Friday- We had our district meeting and interviews with President James. It was so much fun.  My interview went so much longer then it was suppose to! We were just talking about different stuff in the mission and in life and it was pretty great! Then I went on another exchange but this time I was with Elder Hunsaker down in Raleigh.  It was spanish speaking!  What was funny was we ended up having to drive back up to Wake Forest because the other elder accidentally took the phone.   it was pretty great! It was so much fun, I basically just stood there and took the gringo stare from all of the spanish people it was the best! It was funny that we had chicken alfredo for dinner with this spanish family though! But hey that's my favorite meal so I wasn't even going to complain!  Then we tried a few other people and it was in this really weird complex! But it was a fun night!

Saturday- We exchanged back and it was a fun little drive up to Wake Forest again! The day flew by though it was so fast! We had a good time as we planned and waited for the transfer news!  Then we found out that Elder Robinson was leaving it was pretty crazy! 

Sunday- Dan finally came to church which was great and we had a good time.  We went in with the Priests during the Priesthood session of church! They did mission prep stuff and it was pretty funny! So we asked a few questions and then we had them do some role plays trying to teach one another it was super funny!  Then it was great because that night we went to the Duncans for dinner and we also went back to to watch the Christmas Devotional.  We went out and tracted in between and visited a few members so Elder Robinson would be able to say bye! Then the devotional was really good, we had a fun time with the Duncans as we watched it!  We are going to watch it again with Dan and the Henrys tonight!

Over all it was a great week and we had a fun time. I was sad to hear Elder Robinson was leaving but I love this area and am happy to stay! It will be exciting!

Have a great week everyone!!

Love Elder Hutchings

Wake Forest District - the BEST!!!