Hawaiian Haystacks and lots of work

This monday was really weird because it was my last P-day with Elder Lingmann and all those who got transferred that I know really well.  As you know we ran a 5k and it was dumb it was actually only 4 miles!! Luckily I didn't have to run it!! We played some sports for the rest of the day and it was fun!! 

Tuesday we got on of the priests to come out with us.  His name is Elkanah and he is really awesome.  It was really fun we went to the park and taught a girl with him there with us.  She said she wanted to learn more so that was great! Then we took him and got a frosty!!  It was so much fun and he biked with us! Then that night we found another person to teach.  We didn't even knock on his door, we just walked with him around his apartment complex! It was really cool! We taught him again on Sunday with a member and he is super nice.  His name is Mohidd and he is really awesome!! 

Let me tell you that I have never eaten so many Hawaiian haystacks!!!  The one on Sunday was the best ones that we have ever had!! 

We did tons of work this week and just had a blast and worked hard. We knocked on a lot of houses and we are trying a new thing at the park.  We are doing a survey and it hasn't been to successful but we are tweaking it and making it better!! The flooding is completely gone now it is crazy!! 

This Sunday I had to give a talk in church and it was on service.  Everyone said that I did great but it was scary and it was really funny. I talked about you in my talk!! It was really interesting and then we also taught the priest quorum lesson and that was interesting but fun!  We got 2 investigators to church which is really awesome!!! I have been teaching both of them the whole time that I have been in Cary!! 

It was really fun this week and I was looking at everything that I have picked up on my mission!!  This is some of the stuff!! Pictures are Elder Lingmann and I and then a snake on the green way as we were biking and then the stuff i have gotten for free on my mission haha :)

Hope everyone has a great week

Love Elder Hutchings

Elder Lingmann and I

A little snake on the greenway - this is moms favorite!!!!

Stuff I've picked up on my mission

I survived Mathew!!!

Well this week was super busy! It started off with a really great P-day that was tons of fun!! We did basketball and some dodge ball and it was tons of fun!! 

Then Tuesday was pretty boring we had what is called deep clean day so we spent the whole day just cleaning and it was so boring!!!  It actually felt good later because the apartment got really clean and it felt great!! 

Then Wednesday was so awesome!!  We had whats called an activity zone conference and it was so much fun!!!   3 different zones were there and it was crazy!!!  We had a scavenger hunt and then we got to go fishing.  I didn't catch anything which was pretty lame but the drive was so much fun!! We rode with Elder Walker and his companions and it was a party all the way.  We had to wake up at 4:30 to get there on time but it was fun.  At the Zone Conference we had a log run where we ran with this huge poles.  Then a three legged race which was super fun but I hurt my ankle and then a sack race where I hurt my ankle more!!! The best was a tug of war and it was awesome!!!  We beat this one Zone and it was crazy we almost lost and then we came back and just rocked it and beat them but then we lost to the other Zone but it was crazy fun!! 

Then Thursday we had first transfer training and it was really awesome.  We got instructed all day and it was really fun and super good!! 

Friday we went on an exchange and Elder Walker came to Cary with me and we biked on some awesome green ways.  As it was all wet and we were drifting around corners and it was so much fun.  That night we got pizza and we biked home with it - Awesome!! 

Then Saturday was pretty crazy because the hurricane came and it was pretty bad!!!  We got to do service at a place called Dorcas which was super awesome but while waiting to exchange back we went out and played basketball in the hurricane which was super awesome and I drained a half court shot in the storm!!!  It was super awesome!! Then we exchanged back and got told to stay in side for the rest of the day and it was really lame but we got to sleep and yea but it was boring but much needed rest!! 

Then yesterday was a super beautiful day and church was great and then we went out and sought out some service and knocked on some doors and it was really cool and then we went around and saw how much damage there was.  The green ways were really flooded it was pretty amazing!! Then this morning we ran a 5k but I biked it because my ankle isn't in the best of shape!!!  Here are pictures of the week!!!

Barf Soda!!!  Bahahaha!!!

Running the 5K - well biking for me!!!

Elder Walker and I

Flooding from Hurricane Mathew

Yes that's a park bench

No Golfing today!!

That would be a Picnic area - yes under water!!

New Investigators/General Conference

Well this week was pretty awesome we found a new investigator named Marvin.  He is a really cool black guy who was just out walking around that we talked with him and then went back and taught him!!  It was really good! 

This week was just really crazy.  We helped my recent converts family move so we were pretty busy helping them.  They were so grateful for the help and we got Elder Walker and the other elders to come and join us as well so it was a lot of fun! 

Then for the rest of the week we had an exchange with the zone leaders who are some of my favorites and they are really awesome elders. While we were on exchanges something really funny happened.  They are madarin chinese speaking and we were looking for some chinese people and we found some and they tried speaking to me in madariin and it was funny!!!

Then the rest of the week was spent getting everything set up for general conference and it was great how it all worked out.  We got Steve (an investigator) to watch it with us! You also need to look up this on youtube (Sam Smith tornado) because he is the guy we watched all of Saturday conference with.  He is so cool and is a really awesome member!!  We got to go to a baptism which was super fun and look at this awesome picture of me in front of the temple!!!! I love how close I am to it!!! I also got a pie!  This is me eating it hahaha!  

We had nasty water so we got to do a sleep over on Monday at Elder Walker apartment and it was super fun. Here's a picture of some of the water!!  We went and got cook out that night for food it was so great!!!!  I also got whats called a cook out t-shirt and there is only one place that sells them.  Usually you have to try a bunch of times to get one!  

Elder Dobson can shoot my blow dart gun so hard that he broke a container!!

It was another great week.  Love and Miss Everyone

Elder Hutchings

Dirty water!!!  EWE!!!

Yummy Pie!!!

I Love to See the Temple

He broke the container!!!

Cancelled Lessons!! :(

Well this week was a ton of fun! Sadly, we didn't have to many lessons but we worked really hard and it was great! 

So Monday we ended up getting our lesson cancelled with Steve because his mom has dementia and needed his help so we were praying for her.  We also made sure that he knew we were here to help with anything and everything! That was good and that night we ended up going tracting and found some really cool people. 

Tuesday was pretty great with us going up to the most north part and tracting some really cool looking houses! Then Wednesday was a real surprise -  Elder Walker showed up to pick us up and he is now in a trio so we have another person who hangs out with us but it is good he is a nice elder a little different but good! And Wednesday we went on an exchange again and I went back on the NC state campus which was really crazy this time.  It was a bit rainy, not too bad but still tons of people out.  We use a survey as an excuse to make people talk to us so that is fun! That night was so much fun the other elders live right next to the spanish elders for Cary. We just had a ton of fun and I did like 150 push ups (im still sore btw) hahaha but it was a ton of fun. then the rest of the week we spent contacting members and tracting around their houses and just trying to help the ward! 

Sunday was really fun 4 people at church whoot whoot! And it was great! We also taught the priest age young men and it went so good the bishop asked us to teach it to the teachers group next week!! So it was an awesome Sunday! Today we got a call and asked if we wanted lunch and this super small Asian lady made us some lunch it was super awesome but that is my week!!

Love and Miss Everyone

Elder Hutchings

Service is Great

Well Monday was amazing!!!  That night we had a lesson with a man named Steve and it was really awesome.  The spirit was so strong that you literally could have cut it like butter.  It was even more amazing to be able to have Elder Dobson experiance that! 

The rest of the week we were just out tracting which was fun and we found this lady with a huge dog that was like 220 pounds -  it was massive!!  We always try to make tracting fun and luckily we didn't get told that we are going to hell or anything like that so that is good! 

The weekend was filled with a ton of service and it was really great!!  Some of it was at a horse barn and some other service was at this thrift store and both were really fun!!   I also got to go to the NC state campus which was really cool and we had a ton of fun and there was a party right next to where we taught!!!  It was crazy haha but lots of fun!!  We set up another baptismal date with Taniyah and got Tori and her mom to a stake president fireside which was really great and they really enjoyed.  It has been another great week here in Cary!!!

Love y'all

Elder Hutchings

Elder Dodson and I

Arm wrestling champ!!!

So on Monday we got to have an amazing dinner with this recent convert family.  It was super good and we had Elder Lingman and Elder Christensen with us.  That was super fun. 

Tuesday we got to have a lesson with our recent convert Kimberly.  We taught her the plan of salvation and then I beat her in arm wrestling which was pretty easy (she is 9) hahaha!!!!   Sadly, she is moving but it is still within the stake so that is good! 

Wednesday we had an exchange and I was with Elder Evans and it was tons of fun!!  We ended the night with some ranch soda from a place called rocket fizz and it was pretty gross!!! and we ate brownies that i bought!! 

Then the rest of the week was pretty interesting.  We got Taniyah to go with us to a baptism and she said that she felt the spirit so strong so that was way exciting to see!!  Tori came to church and brought her mom with herfor the second time in a row which was super awesome! And now today we have a district activity which will be super fun and what not! We also had dinner with a member and we were like so how long have you lived here and they were like a month and I was like oh I've been here longer then you!!!  It was funny.  We have also biked so much Elder Dobson is gonna need a new bike haha ! But it has been fun and I am loving it so far!!!

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!!!