Crazy, Crazy week!!!

Crazy crazy week, I wont lie, I don't really remember it very much but I am going to do my best to remember and tell everyone! 

But it was pretty great!

Monday- We went down to the very bottom of Wilmington and viewed this place called the hermits bunker.  It is a WW2 bunker that this guy went and lived in.  It was pretty cool and we hiked through this marsh and got all muddy.  It was tons of fun running all around through it it reminded me of creek fishing!! Then that night we went and saw the Mire family they are doing good.  We went and played basketball in the rain with Elisah and it was super fun!  After basketball, we talked to them about the word of wisdom and we taught it by showing them a picture of the temple and saying how we are the temple of the spirit and we don't want to release elephants into it and let them destroy it!! and how these 5 things are just like it.  It was pretty great and they all agreed with it!! Then we went and taught a man named Keith.  It was about how the Book of Mormon is important.  He said he wouldn't read it so we are going to have to drop him, but i got a super awesome knife! I was talking to him  about hunting after the lesson and we were looking at his knives and I was like that one is like my favorite.  He picked it up, looked at it then handed it to me!!  Its yours he said and it was so awesome!!!! 

Tuesday- was crazy busy and we worked hard and it was great.  We got a member to come to a lesson with Amelia.  We invited her to be baptized and the spirit worked really hard on her and it was crazy to see.  She didn't except it yet but we will keep trying.  She is a sweet old lady and the member we took has a super awesome conversion story and really connected well with her!

Wednesday- work wise nothing really happened But the worldwide broadcast happened and a ton of stuff got changed which was pretty great but kinda crazy with all of the changes! But it was super great!

Thursday- we found Carla and Shawn.  Carla was funny but it was cool and she wasn't really opening up to us and then we got her to read some of the book of mormon and she opened up!!  The spirit just touched her and we were able to tell her all the book of mormon and then she committed to read it!! Shawn was cool he asked all these questions about the bible and it was really cool to tell him about the great apostasy and let him see why a prophet is necessary and a restoration was also necessary!

Friday-  was weird nothing really happened but we had taco salad with peach cobbler (remember this). And I also crashed my bike (haha) it was so funny I was riding with no hands then I went down on my side it was so great really great!!  I wasn't hurt but really funny looking and I didn't wreck my new pants or anything#whatablessing!!

Saturday we have a bunch of lessons but we schooled some kids in basketball and Elder Miller dunked on them.  Then we had a lesson with Ashley who is really cool.  She prays to the universe and it was kinda cool and very intriguing.  The lesson was basically finding out what she believed!! Then that night we went and taught a family from Milasia and they speak Burmese.   It is pretty crazy and such a cool lesson we taught the restoration and basically it was just them reading then us testifying and really intense!!

Sunday- Sadly the Mires didn't come to church again but something is going on.  We are going to try and find out what all is happening and try to help! We gave a blessing to one of my favorite members brother Grishman.  He is from cali and is just super awesome and has been coming out with us a lot!! That night we went and taught Mike and he is so funny and always laughs when he talks it is the best, but the lesson was so powerful the spirit really took  over and he really felt the spirit.  He wants to learn more and we showed him all of the scriptures about Christs church and he said he believes it all!!

Fun stuff that happened this week! We found out there was a black panther march in Wilmington.  It was funny, we had taco salad with peach cobbler twice - two days in a row!! So funny! Also I crashed my bike no injury or anything pretty great!! Oh and also so we have a disgusting rat that ate my dadgum banana bread!! It is so smart and it foiled us trying to catch it!!! Hahaha that is all from this week it has been super great love it!!! We found this great Buddha statue and yeah that is the knife!!

Love Elder Dylan Hutchings!!

The awesome knife

Awesome Buddha statue!!!

The amazing Mire Family - short sleeves in paradise!!

Sorry there was no update for last week we lost our internet but last week was super crazy and tons of fun we worked super hard both weeks and we have found people and a family who were so ready for the gospel!! The Mire family is so amazing!!  We saw them everyday this week and they all have baptismal dates for the 4 of February!! I am so excited, it is so great!! We were able to give them all blessings on Sunday because they were sick. Elder Miller is my boy and he is doing so good!! He is just super ready to share the gospel and isn't to scared.  It has been really amazing and this area is super cool!! I would say the hardest thing is we are right next to the college so there is college girls all over and it is so hard sometimes hahahaha.  

It has been tons of fun lots of tracting and biking. I haven't (almost) been hit in a while so that has been super great!!

Funny story - so Elder Millers bike tire popped so I rode this one that we have that has a flat all day and man was it was tiring and so much work and it hurt my butt!! Butt it was fun all at the same time!! hahahaha  That same day we met with Jean-luke Mire and we played basketball with him and his friends.  We whooped them and made them read the Book of Mormon with us!! It was pretty great and we really enjoyed it!! 

We found 4 other new people this week and all of them are really awesome.  It was pretty crazy how we found one it took forever and a lot of driving but it was super good!! Then also this week I gave an instruction during zone training and now I have been asked to do one at Zone Conference!!  Usually it is only ever asked of Zone Leaders so I'm pretty nervous about it!!  It's pretty weird but great haha!! 

That's about all for the week but we had one last cool experience, I got to teach a man with Elder Shearer on Thursday.  It was a man I have met with before and it was so good because he really opened up to us and might progress this time!!! I was so happy and so excited!! I will send some pictures!! this is all from this week it has been super busy we are teaching tons and working just super hard and biking a ton!!! It is so great to be a missionary!!

Love to everyone

Elder Hutchings

Elder Miller and I

I'm shrinking

Just another day in paradise!!

Now this is paradise - SHORT SLEEVES!!

I got this!!

We got this - Oh yes!!

Happy New Year - Sunrise at the Beach - Starting the year off right!!!

Monday we went and played tennis and I lost like every game!!!  I got some new slacks it was so nice to have some new ones!! Haha and other then that, that's was all we did!!

Tuesday my bike broke down, well, the Schwin that i was riding.  I finally popped the tires but then we had to walk a bunch but it was super great!!

Wednesday I went to Leland on exchange and it was cool.  We went and tracted a new place.  It was fun and we found this guy making crosses.  They were pretty sweet!! I got to see some members that I haven't seen for awhile and then they lost their cat!!  I hope they find it but we had to leave!! I found out that they are still teaching someone that i found from when I was here so that was super cool and crazy!!!!!!! #suchablessing!! It was great and I got to sleep in the queen size bed again!! Lovin It:)

Thursday we came back i dealt with the bike that was stolen and then we found and called the police.  It was pretty interesting.  We also found another new investigator but this week was weird.

Friday nothing really happened we just knocked a lot of doors with very little success:( but that's all good!!

Saturday was crazy Elder Pesetas bike got a flat so we fixed that then we did a ton of work.  What was really fun was we spent the night at the zone leaders and it was great such a party well as much as a missionary can again hahaha!! Then I got the call from President James to train another missionary, so I will be a trainer and a district leader it is going to be crazy!!!

Sunday church was fun we changed to 11 it is interesting haha.  I don't like going at 11 as a missionary, it throws the whole day off!! We spent the night at the bishops house and it was cool.  We have such a great bishop. Not to much going on again this week it was pretty boring but we worked super hard and it was fun!!

Happy New Year to Everyone and looking forward to a great Year!!!

Today we went to the beach and watched the sunrise it was an AMAZING way to start this year!!

Love Elder Hutchings

Very Merry Christmas!!!

Hey y'all that was awesome yesterday!!!!!!!!

I was so excited to see everyone it was super awesome I was so happy!! It was super great to see everyone though. This week was amazing, It has been harder though because you become more and more unfocused with the holidays.  I am more focused now it is great! I really want everyone to know how much I really do love and miss them!! 

Monday-  was interesting we tracted a bunch and it was fun but we really didn't get to many answers on the door but it was all good.  I road a bike without a helmet (because mine was stolen!!) and we got to have dinner at golden corral!!  It was pretty fun and I bought a helmet (aka the one that got stolen later) but it was great to just be out and about but it was super cold like freezing tons!! Elder peseta was almost a pop sickle!! 

Tuesday- We found and investigator named Leigh in the morning and it was awesome because she said she felt like god had sent us to her!! Then I went on an exchange after interviews with President James and those were great!! I went with Elder Nadauld - he is my zone leader and it was tons of fun. This is when I got hit on by this girl wearing just a bra!!  It was so awkward!!! #stillgotgame. It was really cool because we all stayed the night at the zone leaders apartment and we partied!!! (well like a missionary)

Wednesday-  was a crazy day, sadly one of our appointments got cancelled which would have been really good with this family but last minute they had something to do.  That was a bummer but oh well it happens.  We will get them this week! And we finally were able to teach this one lady we met named Kim.  She opened up to us and the spirit was super present in  the lesson and it was so good and it was in the ghetto where I apparently was getting threats about being white that i didn't hear but elder peseta did hahaha!!!  It was funny!! I also opened the shoes I got and they were so gorgeous!!

Thursday- We went to Lafayette for Christmas zone conference and I got to see tons of my friends from up in Cary.  Lots of people that have been transferred away from me so it was really great!!! Tons of people performed music and dances.  It is so cool that we have so many talented people in our mission.  This one elder threw down on the organ it was so crazy!!!! Elder Peseta played the ukulele and it was cool.  He played this mission song and sang with another elder!!! Then our district performed o holy night and Elder Jensen played guitar.  It sounded really good it was quite amazing because we only practiced that morning!!

Friday- My Bike Was Stolen AGAIN with My NEW Helmet!!! I found it and we are going to get it back!! We had a great lesson with our investigator Sylvia.  She is from main land china it is pretty cool to work with her!! Super fun night and then we had dinner with a member and had this massive pizza!!  I have a picture of the box it was huge and really good! We also caught a lizard it was really funny it was in the zone leaders apartment it was so awesome!​​​​​​

Saturday we attended a baptism of a guy from the Congo.  The Wilmington 1st elders baptized him in Swahili.  The guy messed up his ankle the night before and couldn't even walk on it and still got baptized so much faith so amazing to see!! Then we found the bike that night - miracle as well totally lead to it by the spirit to take a path for idk why but led us right to it and we got it!! Now i am going to find my helmet I don't care how haha!!! We had dinner with the Bastians and it was fun we sang hymns and elder peseta played the ukulele that they had!! We stayed the night again at the zone leaders and Elder Shearer gave me the nice haircut and it looks so good!!

Christmas- Woke up at 6:30 and we all opened our gifts which was tons of fun!!  I reopened the shoes that I wrapped myself it was great!! I loved all of my gifts so much!! And then I wore the shoes to church!!  It was a  really awesome service at church.  Tons of singing Christmas songs and the story of Christs birth!!! We spent Christmas with the Carters where I got to call everyone from.  We were there all day it was tons of fun.  They had a lot of family but it was pretty small compared to what i am use to and pretty dang quiet as well!!!

I loved this Christmas so much even though it was harder and different and i didn't get to be there with all of you I know where I am is where I am needed and I love everyone so much!!! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!

Love Elder Hutchings

Christmas Morning

What a haul!!!

Sweet Ties!!!

Lovin the Seattle stuff!!!

New pillow and pillowcase!!!

Looking GOOD for Christmas!!!

Merry Christmas Everyone!!

Thug LIfe - Cut Chain Merry Christmas

Well this week was really good! 

Monday- was great we had a fun day we played more wall ball.  Then we went to the Niskas who fed us a really good meal and they are a super fun couple.  We had a great time telling them mission stories and just making them laugh! We then contacted a less active guy and gave him a light the world card and it was pretty cool because it opened him up more!!

Tuesday- We found Schvonna, she is this funny lady who really thought the restoration and eternal familys were amazing!! Then sadly we didn't find anyone else that night it was a little sad but we still worked hard and I got my packages!!!

Wednesday- We went and gave a blessing which was amazing!!  This guy was having some problems but we were able to help him and it was so great!! Then we had district meeting and the assistants to the president was there it was fun!!! We tracted the rest of the day and didn't find anyone!!!

Thursday- we tracted again but funny story this lady like actually slammed the door which actually never happens but it did and it was super funny!! We did find Sylvia who is this super sweet lady who is ready for the gospel!!!

Friday was the best!!!  We had the temple trip!!!  So I drove all the way to Raleigh which was a blast!!  We took Elder Jensen and Elder Veseth in our car.  It was tons of fun on the way up sharing stories and jamming out to music (spiritually uplifting music)!!!  The temple was amazing just like always!! We drove all the way home and everyone else fell asleep.  We were up at 4:50 in the morning to go to the temple and didn't get home till 7:30 it was a long drive!!

Saturday we found Tracy this super cool lady who has like 8 kids and it was a funny door contact with them running around and these puppies and it was just great!! Then Elder Peseta got a call from President James to perform for a Conference for Christmas it was great (glad its not me) hahah!!!

Sunday- we had another awesome lesson with Tonya and Calvin.  We invited them to be baptised they said no but want to learn more and attend church!!  We also taught Sylvia again which went great and she wants to learn so much and it was funny because she asked us if we can be her friends!! We went to dinner at 5 and left our bikes at the church then came back and guess who's bike was stolen!!!!! Ughhhhh - thug life chain cut threw and everything!!!!!! They even took my helmet - but at least they are being SAFE!!

Here are some pictures that explain this morning!!

Love Elder Hutchings

Look at all our Presents!!!

I love all my Presents!!!

Elder Peseta Loves his presents

Please Mom can I just open 1 present!!!!!!  I can't wait!!! It's killing me!!!!

Please just 1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love this definition!!

Elder Peseta and I - Looking Good!!!

Thug Life Cut Chain - Bike Stolen!!!
Glad they took the helmet too so they are Safe!!!

Oh Christmas tree Oh Christmas tree - Little and Big

This week was really good!

Monday- we played wall ball with the Leland elders and just had a great time and really enjoyed their company.  We did that for most of the day after we emailed and it was pretty fun. We went tracting that night and it was awesome we found Calvin and Tonya who are gonna make me fried chicken which will be amazing!! We had a super spirit filled lesson with them after they let us in and we taught them the restoration!! It was a really amazing experience!!

Tuesday was a scramble but it was good.  I ended up planning the district meeting  that night for the next day so that was crazy but fun and really good!! We found another new investigator named Amilea who is this super nice old lady who is christian and really wants to learn more so that was great!! 

Wednesday district meeting went great and it was fun.  We are learning new ways to teach from the pamphlets that we have! Then I went to Leland and that was a riot!!  It was fun to go back to a bunch of places that I tracted before  and we found a new investigator there.  It was great and I got to see some people that I had talked with so that was cool. Then that night we went to the Childs house which was great!!  They were super happy to see me and they plan on making me some super good food when I go back to Leland.  It will be so much fun!!

Thursday was great we taught Amelia again and she was super nice and we invited her to be baptized and she said she would think about it and study more with it!! Then the rest of the day was weird but we found a guy who really needed help and we gave him a book of mormon sadly he called and said if he wants us to come back he will let us know so that was to bad but its all good!!  Hopefully we left an impression on him.  

Friday was super fun we had the ward Christmas party and it was tons of fun so many people were there.  We might have a new guy we are going to be teaching that a member brought so it will be really cool to see what happens!!  It was so cold that night but brother Wilson gave us a ride home from the church!!

Saturday was crazy.  We went tracting and then to a baptizm then all over that night!!  We found Incler this super awesome guy from Honduras who we taught and he is prepared and he really liked the message and spirit he felt when we shared it with him!! He offered us this extra Christmas tree so it was pretty cool.  We are teaching him again Wednesday!!

Sunday was crazy our ride to church cancelled so we biked there but it was all good!! Then Elder Peseta and I gave talks.  Mine was on the mission of the savior and everyone said it was good but I felt like I didn't do the best but it was good and I started it with sorry I don't have an aloha or talofa like Elder Peseta.  We just say potato in Idaho haha!!!  It was pretty funny!!! That night we taught Calvin and tonya again.  It was a really awesome lesson and they want to attend church with us!! After the lesson I asked her if she would make me some fried chicken and she said she would I am so excited because they are so cool and just really fun people!!

Today we are going to this gym to learn some Brazilian Juditzu!!  Its going to be awesome.  One of the members owns the gym and he is the instructor!! So it will be really awesome!!

And that is the amazing week of Elder Hutchings

Love Elder Hutchings

Elder Peseta and I

Our Little Tree

Our Big Tree!!!

Elder HUTCHINS!!!! Love it!!

Monday was really cool we went down to down town Wilmington and just looked around and of course I forgot my camera. That night we went out tracting and we found Logan this super nice black lady who was very interested by what we shared with her and wanted to hear more.  We left a book of mormon with her and set an appointment for this week.   We should have a great lesson with her on more of the restoration and then inviting her to come to church!! It was really awesome.

 Tuesday was great we had a zone training with all of the missionaries.  We set up for an inspiring meeting and super funny!! Elder Garlick (my trainer) is in the zone so it is super cool.  He is up in Jacksonville.  It is really cool to see him every now and again. I also went on an exchange with elder Jensen which was crazy to be back with him again but tons of fun because we talked about old times and just had a blast showing each other how much we have improved!! It was really cool and we found a lady named Shannon who was really interested in the thought of a prophet.  It was really great!! 

Then Wednesday not to much happened.  Then Thursday was the same just tracting and not to much success but it was fun.  Elder Peseta and I keep it fun with jokes and just getting to know one another!! 

Friday was great!!  We got lunch and dinner  and I was super full!!  We got some golden corral and burritos from a member.  It was great and that night we found this super cool old guy who told us all these weird stories and was kinda crazy but it was funny and pretty great. 

Saturday - Well I tried making pancakes and I think I am missing something because all I had was flour and sugar and salt and it was kinda like eating playdough but with peanut butter and syrup!!!  It didn't taste to bad!! It was quite interesting!! But i survived! It was funny and pretty great. We got to do some service for these black ladies who were super funny!!  We helped them move into their home and we got it done in 2 hours and when we finished they were like dang we wouldn't be half way done right now if it wasn't for y'all!!

Sunday was really awesome!!  I did my first 2 baptismal interviews!! It was really awesome kinda scary but they were ready. Then that day we went to the hood and did some tracting it was really fun kinda scary but fun and we found Victor and Ashley.  It was awesome.  They both wanted to learn more and find out if it is true! 

All of this week we were sharing the #lighttheworld card and it is amazing how Christmas breaks barriers and helps us to get into the door or at least leave something there. This week I will plan for my second district meeting and go on another exchange into Leland I am going to wear my special tag that says Elder Hutchins ahahaha. It will be great!

Love Elder Hutchings (aka Elder Hutchins)  LOL

Happy Thanksgiving - Welcome back to Wilmington - First District Meeting!!!

Well this last week was pretty crazy.  Monday I  had one last dinner at the White's house.  It was pretty great. We ate chicken pot pie. An investigator that I have been teaching was able to come and have dinner with us so I was able to say good bye to her. I taught her a lot and it was pretty scary because she almost wasn't able to join us!!  It got worked out some how and she was able to join us. We also got to hang out with one of the priests named E.  He is super cool and he went out to Jordan Lake with us.  We played some sports with him and the rest of the zone. It was cold but everyone was there and I was able to see a ton of people before I had to leave!! It was a really good day. We found boomerangs that night and we went and were throwing them and I kept throwing mine in the pond by our house!!!  It was lame so we fished it out with Elder Dobsons fishing pole!!  It was a great last day in Cary and tons of fun!!

Tuesday was transfers and Brother Mills from the ward drove me to where I needed to be.  I took a picture of all of my stuff at the couch it was pretty great. I got to transfers and found my ride and found Elder Peseta (my new companion) and we rode down with a member to Wilmington.  I forget his name but he is really awesome. We got to Wilmington and got right to work but sadly with all our tracting we didn't find anyone but we got out and worked. It was really fun to be able to work here.  I  unpacked that night and planned my first district meeting!!  It was pretty fun and kinda stressful but the zone leaders helped me out.

Wednesday was my first district meeting and it went pretty well (a bit rough) but it should smooth out over time and be better!! I got to meet my district and it is so good to be back here - a little weird but good. Not to much happened the rest of Wednesday but we went tracting and it was cool we met a guy named Steven.  He let us come right in and we taught him.  We are going to go back and teach him more but he is really nice and offered us a ride home!!

Thursday turkey day!! Started it off with some turkey bowl and just like always my team won!!!  I made an awesome catch and ran it for a long ways!!  It was a way intense game and kinda scary haha.   We got to visit a less active member named Gary Martin and it was really awesome.  He was surprised to see us but you could tell it made his day. We ate dinner at the Van Slykes - the assistant ward mission leader.  He is really fun and so is his family.  It was a great dinner.  They don't so anything different just turkey and the usual.  Elder Peseta and I ate way to much.  Then we went and visited a few members and we found an investigator while on our way there. We were definitely lead to him because we walked the wrong way and bumped into him!!!  If we would have walked the right way we would have missed him! Then that night we bikee to the sisters house to get the car because I had a meeting on Friday and the district leader from Shallot came and spent the night that night so we could go to the meeting that next day.

Friday we got up at 4 a.m.!!! to head back up to Raleigh for the leadership meeting.  I got to drive to Wallace where we joined the other leadership and headed the rest of the way there.  It was a super long trip but it was really good and it helped me know more of what I am doing.  We got back to Wilmington around 4 and we went out to tract and we found a bunch of potentials  so that was great. 

Saturday was good - we did lots of tracting and I got a haircut from a member who did a really awesome job!!  Its different but looks really good!!!

Sunday was my first Sunday here and I actually knew a few people in the ward.  The bishop here is really missionary minded and it is really great!! We had dinner with a recent convert and I got all caught up with the ward it was a really good day.  We even found a man named Ryan who is really prepared for the gospel!!!

Really great week and I am looking forward to being here and I am sending pictures!!!

My new address: 

3403 Wilshire #103 
Wilmington NC 28403

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving

Love y'all

Elder Hutchings

Elder Dodson and I - the last ride!!!

Elder Dodson, Taniyeah and I

The fabulous White Family

All my stuff!!! (Way too much!!!)

Elder Peseta being diligent!!!

Elder Peseta and I at our first District Meeting - he is from Hawaii!!!!

Headed to Wilmington!!!

So this week was suppose to be really awesome but sadly almost all of our appointments fell threw!!!  So we just tracted a ton and didnt really have much success. We did have 2 really awesome meetings. So one was with a lady named Iris Scott and I mentioned that we found her last week.  We had a lesson with her and she is so prepared to be baptized!! We had such a spiritual lesson in which we invited her to be baptized and she excepted.  It was really amazing and we got our ward mission leader there with us and he testified of the truthfulness of the gospel and it was just a true blessing. 

We also met with William and sadly he is being admitted to the hostipal but it will be all good!  We talked to him about this life and how it is to feel joy.  We were able to express our love for him and allowed him to know that we are here for him.  He is going threw a really hard time and we just wanted him to know that!! 

On sunday it was announced that I am leaving Cary !!!  It was good because we got Taniyah to church and she is so ready for baptism!! It was great to see all of the memebers who came up and thanked me for all my service in this area and were sad that I have to go. So now is the question to where, well, I got a call saturday night from President James!!!  He called me to go back to Wilmington (I was in Leland which is right next to Wilmington).  I am going to be a District Leader there in that area so i will be over Leland too. Kinda funny!!!  It will be great to be back there and I will get the address as soon as I know where I'm at. I will be back over with Elder and Sister Martin (the couples missionaries who moved in when I was there)   I am so excited to see them too. So yes it is great. It was funny though because I thought that I was in the clear for a call but President James suprised me and I got one haha!!!  I know wherever I go I am needed. 

It will be hard to leave Cary because I have loveed it here so much but it will be good that Elder Dobson is staying. 

Today is gonna be great  - we have a zone activity at Jordan Lake (once again no swimming - ha ha)  that will be so much fun!!  We are also going to have dinner with the Whites and an investigator named Tori who is super awesome.  I did want to  say bye to her before I leave.  

So great day and great week just boring and slow but that is how it goes some days. Next week I will send the video of me riding my bike and I video taped it while riding and took a selfie!! :))) Love you have an awesome week!!!  I will be in Wilmington on tuesday and I'll get you the new address asap!!!

Love to all

Love Elder Dylan Hutchings