New Trainee/New Suit

Hey this week was great! 
Elder Dobson is my trainee and he is a great elder and really wants to try hard to do what he can to improve! Training is crazy!!!  I sometimes feel like I have no idea what I am doing!!! haha but then I just like go oh well hahaha! I felt bad for Elder Dobson, we had some times where people told us we were going to hell.  I got him out as fast as i could but i know that it defiantly effected him a little but he is staying strong so that is good!! He has a great testimony so I am not worried but it was still not good for his first week.  That's hard on any missionary let alone in the first week!!

Everything is going good I am feeling pretty healthy. We got rained on all day it was so much fun! This week consisted of a lot of tracting but its all good.  You have to find people in order to teach! We had our first discussion as trainer and trainee and it went great and we are going to be teaching him again.  That will be really good!!  We have been working really hard and doing lots!  I found out that I  have been hitting like 35 to 40mph on my bike!!!  It has been great and so much fun.  I calulated it out and I have put about 2000 miles on my bike so far!!  Thats been awesome!  

I did get a new blue suit - my suits are getting a little bigger with all the biking!!!! Gotta love being a missionary.

Love yall

Elder Hutchings

Something old, new, borrowed - nay just blue!!!

This week has been great!!  We worked super hard and did a ton of stuff.  We were super busy with cleaning and planning and tracting.  It has all been good.  I got called to be a trainer so I will be training a new missionary this week.  He will be here tomorrow.  That means that I will also be in Cary for another 3 months at least with the new Elder.  That's about all but it has been a good week! 

Love Elder Hutchings

I had to go buy some new smaller pants!!!  Looking good!!!

Weekly Xray!!!!!

Well let me tell you about this week - we were out playing volleyball for P-day and I landed on my ankle sideways really hard!!!  I went to an urgent care with my district leader.  I had to have an X-ray.  Luckily it's just a bad sprain and they gave me a brace and told me to stay off of it.  But that night we biked down to the bottom of the area which is like 14 miles round trip hahaha.  It only hurts when I forget and try to turn on it.  I have to remember to use my left foot.  It is doing good and is feeling better but not totally healed but does fine when I am in the brace! So I am all good  - just on ibuprofen and icy hot and the brace!   I just keep working and try not to go to hard on it.

Not to much else happened this week.  We didn't get to teach very much but we tracted a ton.  

Saturday and Sunday I was sick.  I got a head cold but they gave me a blessing and its gone now so its all good!  We still weren't able to work very much but church was good.  

We did have one cool thing that happened.  We had someone approach us and want us to come talk with him the next day!!!  We went and met with him and had a great gospel talk.  Unfortunately nothing really came from it now though but maybe somewhere down the road he will want more.  It was still a really cool experience!

Love and miss everyone

Elder Hutchings

It's ALL good just a sprain!!!

She Got Baptized!!! Woohoo!!!

Well this week was pretty crazy!!  We were all over the place tracting.  It was really fun though we biked to the top of our area and it is huge.  We did like an extra 15 miles for it but it was well worth it.  We found some great places where we are going to go and knock on some doors!! 

The weekend is where it started to get crazy!! We had weekly planning and took a really long time.  We had our last meeting with Kimberly before she got baptized this weekend.  On the way to go meet her my bike tire popped and we were only half way there.  We had to book it over there on foot or she wouldn't have been able to be baptized!!! Luckily, we made it there on time but on the way there we got a call from the assistant to the president.  We also had to make it over to the hospital for a blessing that we needed to give to another missionary.  It was all jumbled and crazy but we made it to everything and it went really well!! 

We were able to have Kimberly baptized and confirmed on Sunday.  That was really amazing!! Her dad was able to baptize her!!   It was a great experience!!

We were tracting on Friday and we met Brian.  He was super nice.  I know that we were suppose to meet him because my bike tire popped AGAIN and we were able to be there at the right time to meet him and help him on his journey.  It is really awesome how that works some days!! 

Then Sunday we had a mission president fireside.  It was really awesome and we got our investigator Tori to go with us.  She told her story of how she started investigating the church and it was really awesome to hear her speak.

Then we got to have the other 2 Cary elders over because we had to got to a doctors appointments with them but it was fun. It was great having them over and spending time.  It was a great week and it is amazing to be out here and see it all!!!

Elder Hutchings

Kimberly's baptism!!!

New Ties/FOE Hammer/Goblin Clever - WHAT????

Well this week was really good.  We had a great P-day last monday.  We went to this adventure land and did a bunch of games and played laser tag.  I got 2 new ties and it was pretty awesome! We had a ton of fun and elder Lingman and I kicked peoples butts at laser tag which was pretty funny!! It was a zone activity so it was just a blast! 

Then we worked really hard the rest of the week and we had 3 lessons with our investigator who is getting baptized this saturday.  It is going to be so exciting because her dad will be able to baptize her and he has been less active but has been coming now.  So it has been amazing and I was able to teach her all of the lessons - so it has been really cool to see! 

We also had some great lessons with a girl named Tori.  She is the nicest person ever and just super smart.  The spirit was so strong in the lesson it was great and really amazing to see where she has gotten! Then we also still have another girl getting ready for baptism.  I have taught her a ton and it has been great to see where she was at 2 years ago when she was first  being taught to where she is now.  Its been cool to watch her and she thinks so much deeper then anybody I have ever met.  It has been an awesome experience to have been able to teach her! 

This week has had lots of great tracting and trying to find a family.  We also did a blitz where we had 30 missionaries in 1 area just knocking on doors!!  Great experience!! 

Sunday was beyond amazing!!! I got to hold the FOE hammer and the goblin clever from the Hobbit!!!   It was pretty great and exciting!!!!!!

The next epic battle!!! Elder Jensen verses Elder Hutchings!

Beware!!

Elder Jensen and I - such cute faces!!!

My new Ties - Sweetness!!!!

Sweating like a fountain!!! EWE!!

This week has been really good.  The zone leaders had that prank on me and it started the week out great! 

We have been tracting a lot and had a few lessons that we were able to get members to go out with us.  We got two really great lessons in with Taniyah.  She should be baptized this saturday!!!   That will be really cool and we invited another man to pray about baptism which was great.  Pedro is the one who we invited to be baptized he is from cuba and like 70 years old! We got a recent convert to go out with us to Pedros lesson and they connected very well.  (Everyone does know that they can go on exchanges with the missionaries right!!!!  It is very helpful and cool if any of you can go!!) It was fun to see them connect! Then we had our last lesson with Taniyah.  It was clearing up what the law of chastity is which was kinda awkward!!!  But, we got it all cleared up and she has been taught everything now so that is all good! 

This Sunday was crazy we got this girl that we have been teaching to come to church.  She is 9 and has a hard time getting up for church so we told her we would bring her a treat if she came.  She made it to church so we are going to make cookies for her tonight! 

It was busy and stressful at church on Sunday!!!  Taniyah almost didn't make it to church and she had her baptismal interview.  We were stressed out and worked hard to get her  a ride so she could make it.  It was crazy and were doing all this while we were in church!!!   It worked out and she made it in for her interview so we are just waiting for one more ok.  Then we are good to go so it has been a lot of fun! Also,  if this guy named Evan cant baptize Taniyah,  she has asked me to baptize her.  We will wait and see but it will be amazing whoever baptizes her!

We biked to the top of our area in 102 heat we were drenched in sweat!!!  You just sweat like a fountain in this heat!! It is gross and awesome.  This week we also biked like 30 miles a day and I keep up with Elder Jensen.  He is on his road bike so it is pretty  fast biking and that is most all of this week.  Fun and crazy and what not. 

We are having a Zone activity today so that should be alot of fun.  It is going great out here.  Love and miss you all.  I hope you all have a great week.

Love

Elder Hutchings

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!!!