Elder Dylan Hutchings: Freezing Rain

Well I just want everyone to know that this week I found out that I have holes in the soles of my shoes. Some might ask - well how did you just barely find this out. This week will tell and it is quite a good story so stay tuned and find out!

Monday- Was sorta fun, we drove down to Raleigh to help people with rides since we have lost some of the cars in the zone because of some accidents. We were able to go down and spend some time with the other elders. We played some board and card games! It was pretty fun, and I got to hang out with some cool elders. I found out basically everything that was going on with transfers! It was really fun to get the assistants to just blabb it all out to me! LOL!!! So that was a pretty good part of the day, and then we had the nice long drive home with traffic! It wasn't to bad, then we went straight to a lesson with Dan our investigator who is getting baptized here soon! We took pictures and stuff! Then we ran to another appointment and met with this awesome couple. We went in and sat down and taught them the restoration! It was a powerful lesson, and they committed to come to church and read and pray! It was awesome, and then we ran to the store to get ice cream, and milk shake ingredients and we had a milk shake party for Elder Robinson! It was great, just me and him but it was a lot of fun!

Tuesday- We had our transfers, we swung by the Henry's first to grab some biscuits they were giving us and then we drove to transfers. It was fun seeing everyone and having them be like whoa its transfers again. (I was like you don't even know!) It was cool, we got to see all of the trainers, sadly a lot of the people that I wanted to see weren't there but there was a few, so it was good. Everyone leaving was so trunky it was the best! Then I found Elder Shore and we packed it up and left transfers. It was a pretty short drive home not to much traffic or anything. Then we got home, he unpacked a bit and then we were off to the races. We went and tracted around the area that we were having dinner and it was quite fun to be able to see how Elder Shore works. By the way, my companion is now Elder Shore, he is from Utah and has brown hair. He is really cool and we are pretty similar so it will be a fun last transfer!

Wednesday- We went up to district meeting and it was really fun. There was a ton of missionaries there since my district lines were changed and I now have a district of 6 companionships instead of 3 haha. President doesn't want me trunky I guess! But it was fun, and we also had the zone leaders there! We had a great day of tracting though. That is what a lot of this week consisted of! We had a great member dinner though and it was awesome. The kids were great, and the we tracted the rest of the night!!

Thursday- Was crazy we had 2 appointments that morning and sadly one of them fell through. It was weird because of the person that missed it, his name is Eric and he seemed super solid. We are going to text him and try to reschedule! We should be able to get an appointment and the other appointment, we were able to teach about the Book of Mormon and prayer. We tracted for quite a bit and let me say the Christmas Initiative really melts peoples hearts and helps us to share a message with them. It was cool, and then we went with a member and visited some Baptist seminary students who he invited to meet with us. It was mostly question and answer session and what not. Nothing came from it but in the end we were able to leave them with a Book of Mormon. They were super nice people. When we were driving though we almost hit a deer it was great! I spotted it and was like deer! So we missed it!

Friday&Saturday- Both days were really awesome, this is when I found out that I had a hole in my shoe. Friday we tracted all day and all night it was great. It started out raining and then it went to freezing rain, and my shoe got soaking wet. It was awesome!! We tracted for hours straight and the best comment I heard both days was " its cold out here, y'all should get somewhere warm"... aren't you in a nice warm house... Ha Ha but we were able to find people both days and we saw an investigator named Joe and we talked to him about why he missed church last week. He said some excuses and then I said well come tomorrow. So we arranged a ride! (he came too!) Then we had some great member dinners! At one point on Friday though we had to run into the dollar general store and buy new socks since ours were just soaked! It was a great 2 days. I had a ton of fun and so did Elder Shore. We even got to tract in the snow and we both felt like we were back out in the west!! It was so cold though!!

Sunday- Joe came to church it was the best, and then we went and visited some of our investigators. We had a great dinner with some newer members of the ward! It was a ton of fun. The end of the night we met with Dan and him telling us he forgot the baptismal record, and we were meeting with him to fill it out! But it was good, we visited this lady named Sister Share and she is really cool. She gave us a turkey and was like this needs cooked... So now we are cooking a turkey today!!

It has been a great cold week and I loved it!! Oh and here are some pictures of a mouse in our apartment!!! We caught it and I had to dispose of him... But hes gone now! It was fun have a great week love all of you! Oh and that is my life for the past two years in all 17 of my planners!

Love Elder Hutchings