Missionary LIfe!!

Monday- We had a ton of Elders come down from the zone and we had a huge game of basketball and it was tons of fun. My team won the first like ''BIG'' game it was funny because we weren't the ones who should have won it was pretty funny! It was a fun day though and apparently a holiday. What was really fun was we got invited to a ward party thing. I got to play some corn hole game with a few kids while we waited for dinner. Then that night we went and visited a less active named James.  He is a super sweet old guy and is really lonely.  We just absolutely brightened up his day by visiting him, it was really a good visit. 

Tuesday- Was suppose to be crazy, we had 4 appointments lined up and ready to go and then boom it all came crashing down!!  One person called and dropped us and the rest weren't there for the appointments. It was so lame!  We decided not to let it get to us so we knocked doors all day and kept on going. It was pretty interesting.   Then yet again as we were going to contact a less active my GPS runs out of juice and none of the cords in the car work for it. So I was so frustrated but I was like well I know how to get to another place with a referral and what not so we went and did that.  Then we tracted to finish out the night and we found Charles, this cool old guy who we were able to teach the restoration to on the door and he invited us to come back it was really awesome.

Wednesday- I got to go on exchange with Elder Carrel who is one of my favorite missionaries ever!  It was a ton of fun. We got to go tracting and we found Alexis who is this super cool young mom.  She was offended at her old church but is interested in finding a church that she can go to and she has a kid so it will be awesome!! We kept working and then we got to go visit a less active named Charlie Harper.  He had a goal to be at church on Sunday, which he came to... but it was an awesome lesson! That night Elder Carrel got feeling super sick it was pretty bad so we ended up calling it a night early but it was a ton of fun!!!

Thursday- Nothing really happened we planed for the week and then went tracting and found a few new people but other then that we just exchanged back and what not but it was still a good day!

Friday- We ended up having to drop a few investigators so that was sad but the best part was these 3 old ladies of the ward took us out to eat and it was just funny and cute!!  They treated us to a place called Zaxbys it was really good! There are a ton of placed out here that I want everyone to go to it is so great!!!

Saturday- Jeff told us he was still super sick and wasnt going to be able to make it to church which was a huge bummer because we will need to move his baptismal date back... but it is okay he will get baptized!! We went and did service and whoa it was insane! We helped this family move and whoa there were so many cockroaches! It was awesome and elder Chui was there it was awesome!!

Sunday- Charlie came to church and so did another investigator named Michelle it was really awesome!!!! Then we had a great dinner and we got told we were the best missionaries the ward has had in a long time!!  It was really funny!! And church was great!! 

It has been a great week I loved it!! And we had this one experience where we were knocking and this guy answered and we were talking to him and he was really cool and nice.  Then his wife came out and was like ohh mormonism well our lives have been changed by Jesus and we both were like yea us to and she was like what and it was pretty funny!!!

Have a great week everyone!!!

Love Elder Hutchings

I Turned 20!!!!!!

Monday- was just great!! Elder Carrell is writing a book. So he told me all about it and that is what I did for Monday! It was really awesome and the book is so intriguing.  It was awesome! So I told him - you need to finish the book and he was like ok ok!! Oh yeah really really good!! It was fun to listen to his writing process and he is someone that you wouldn't expect to be writing this interesting and amazing book!! Then that night is where it was at!!!!!! WE went and taught Jeff.... he is the man!! We had the best lesson ever with him!! It was on the plan and he believes all of this and he knows it is true he has been praying about it constantly. Then we started talking about the spirit world and it lead into baptisms for the dead which we normally don't go into very fast and it totally makes sense to him.  Then Elder Malyon started to invite him to be baptized and he cut him off before he even finished and said Yes, Definitely!!  We were stunned and said So you want to be baptized and he said you couldn't hold him back!!!!!! :D It was the best!!!

Tuesday- We had zone conference which was really great and I finally didn't have to instruct at it was so nice!!! It was so long and took forever but it was really good!!

Wednesday-We tracted a ton and we met this super sweet old lady and it was really awesome!!

Thursday-It was great!! So we got a call from our zone leaders that morning and they said Happy Birthday! Were going to lunch with you what time will work?? So we set up a time and then Elder Malyon and I went out tracting.  It was awesome!! We ended up talking to these two old guys and they were super funny. Then somehow it got brought up that it was my birthday and so one of then was so excited he said - what I'm paying for your lunch today and whips out 20 bucks!!!  We were like what ok!! So that was awesome! Then we came home had our studies and I checked the mail and I had  everything arrive right on my birthday it was crazy!! So I ended up opening it all up! I Loved all of my gifts!!  They were the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then we went out to lunch with the zone leaders and we had mexican food from this taco truck it was tons of fun!!  We did our weekly planning after that and we went to an appointment.   We had dinner with the Clawsons and they made me chicken Alfredo and a cake.  It was embarrassing but fun when they sang happy birthday it was really cool! Then we got to meet with Jeff the most prepared man ever and we had another lesson on the gospel of Jesus Christ and read 2 Nephi 32.  It was the best and that's how we ended our working day!!!!!!  That night we made these cup cake things that I got in my birthday package and they were so awesome!!!!!!  My ward mission leader even got me a gift it was so cool!!  2 pairs of really cool socks... one says AWESOME on it!!!!

Friday-was a lot of fun, we found a ton of people!!!  We found 3 new investigators and it was great because we haven't found hardly anyone lately.  It was great and then we got to go out to dinner with Brother Peedin who is the best!!!  He took us out to Chilis and  it was really good!!! Then we got to teach some recent converts who just moved into the ward!  We left our bikes chained up and when we came back... some one had left us water bottles in our helmets - that was so awesome!!!

Saturday- We taught a great lesson with a woman named Jackie and we had a couple named the Sabeys with us and it was great!! She loved the plan of salvation !! Really cool experience and Sister Sabey made her feel a lot more comfortable since we are dudes and shes a lady! Then we spent the rest of the day tracting!! Nothing really happened with it being a holiday!

Sunday- we were able to teach primary and it was a ton of fun!! No one showed up for church but Jeff was out of town so we knew he wouldn't be able to make.  He wants to come so bad so that is great!! Then we had an amazing dinner with the Browns it was really great!!  We even got to help with dinner and another cake!!!  Celebrating my birthday again!!!  woohoo!!!

Thanks for all the Birthday loot!!!

Love Elder Hutchings

Happy Birthday to Me!!!

Birthday loot!

A Bike pump!!  I need this!!!

More Birthday loot!!!

Man did I score!!!

What a haul!!!

Can you believe I'm 20!!!!  

Teaching primary!!

Helping with dinner!!

More Happy Birthday to me!!!

What a great day!!!  Loving the life!!!

Weeks flying by

Weeks are starting to blur together.. I remember everything that happened but it all went by really really fast!

Monday- Started the week off right with a great zone activity. So every missionary from the stake I am in met here in Raleigh and we basically had a party. We played a ton of sports it was crazy. Mostly we played soccer so I was very happy. I didn't know soccer was so hard to play on grass without cleats. Its really hard but it was still tons of fun! We played like 20 games of it... the best! Then Elder Carrell was all grilling and me and him had brats that we grilled up!!  It was really good and we put chill on them so we had chili brats!! It was a good activity. Then the best part of the day. We went and taught Jeff.  Holy dang is Jeff elect and super ready for the gospel! He is more ready then I have ever seen anyone on my mission. We get there and I knock and at first there was no response and I was like oh no... knocked again and the door opens and boom Jeff is there thank goodness!! Then we had the best review of the restoration and he is like telling us stuff that he learned from reading the pamphlet. He read the Book of Mormon and he is just so ready. Then we taught him about the priesthood and how we hold it and he was like I can feel that.  He said that he can see and feel the spirit so strong right now and he held up his hand and he was shaking it was crazy best lesson ever. 

Tuesday- we had our coordination meeting with our ward mission leader and it was really good.  He told us this really long story of how he met his wife it was kinda weird but whatever. Then we had a lesson with this recent convert who moved into the ward from the Raleigh 4th ward. Its crazy because I was the one who interviewed them for baptism so that is cool. It was a good lesson.  This one missionary went out on his own theory of doctrine  but it made sense and answered the guys question some what... It was a good day though!

Wednesday- I was on an exchange with Elder Hansen in the Raleigh fourth ward and it was really fun.  We biked a ton and worked really hard. We tried contacting this one referral who wasn't there. That night we got to go tract in this one town house place and as we were locking up and this Ferrari pulls in.  I was like oh were knocking on that door!! So the time finally comes and we knock on the door and the guy answers it.  We taught him the restoration on the door and then we find out who he is... Its P.J. Tucker from Toronto. He is a pro basketball player.. It was the best thing ever!!  I should have gotten a picture with him but its all good I have a witness that it happened!!

Thursday- we tracted for a long time and nothing really happened

Friday- we went and met with this less active member and we thought she was a recent convert. Turns out shes not a recent convert.. just has been moving a ton and what not. She is crazy smart she has a PHD and just got a second masters it was crazy! Then the Davis family had us for dinner that night and that was fun they are a fun family and we helped them set a goal of being able to invite someone to come to church it was pretty great! 

Saturday- we went and helped a part member family move some stuff out of a storage unit and into a garage thing by their apartment it was pretty fun! The washer and dryer were so heavy it was crazy!! They got us lunch after wards and that was really good! I was happy. And then that night we found this little old lady who is a member but is like not on the records and she was a talker.  She talked for like 2 hours.  We had to like leave because it was 9:30 haha. She was super sweet though and it was pretty great. At the end she like had us give her a group hug thing it was funny and really cute. The funniest thing was the whole time she had taken her dentures out and was like I'm not putting them back in hahaha!!

Sunday- We went out tracting that morning and we were in this neighborhood that was no soliciting. Everyone but this one guy was fine with it. End of the story told us he was calling the cops and called us brainwashed it was funny. We didnt leave though and finished the neighborhood and guess what no cops showed up!! Ha jokes on that guy! Church was good though there was 2 farewell talks it was pretty great and then this high council representative spoke and it was really good! Then after church we had a linger longer (tons of food was brought and we ate after church pretty cool!! 

Today- woke up and drove here it was pretty great!! 

Thats my week or the highlights of it I guess. It was really great and I enjoyed it!!

Love Elder Dylan Hutchings

Happy Mothers Day!!

Well again for me at least - this week went by fast as ever! I think every week is just seeming to fly by it is pretty crazy! It seems that every week just seems to speed up faster and faster. I guess that saying is true time fly's when your having fun!

Monday- It was crazy being here in Raleigh with all of the new missionaries coming in and getting all ready for transfers. Everything happens here so it is pretty crazy.  Everyone was kinda running around and what not it was funny!! It was a really good day and we ended up playing some sports and what not! The best was that night we found some people who are golden! We went to look up this referral and we couldn't find them so we were like oh well lets go tract this one place we haven't tracted.   Then the next thing we know we were let in and we taught a full restoration lesson!!  It was funny because afterwards we realized we had knocked it already and the people we had taught had been there and were just busy the first time it was crazy!!

Tuesday- We got to go and teach the Epps family who are a part member family.  We just started teaching and now we are teaching the whole family and the lesson went so good! We went in and read the Book of Mormon just the introduction and then from that the Mom had a ton of questions.  We taught the whole restoration and committed all of them to read and pray to come to know it is true! It was a really good day!!  One of the investigators we found was there for the return appointment but she said that we had to leave but but she would be back around this time.   She even gave us her number and was like please come back!!

Wednesday- We biked so far it was crazy! We legitimently biked 40 miles it was so far I was gone!!  What was really cool was we biked back down by this huge mall and we were able to find this other referrals house who we were looking for! Then the worst part was biking home!!  We were on this green way and man the bugs were the worst!! There were so many gnats and it was so gross!! The whole time I was just like looking at the road and bugs were hitting me and getting in my eyes - so nasty!!!

Thursday- We did a ton of tracting and it kinda sucked!!!  No one would let us in and we were fighting hard to get in but just nothing!!  Then next thing we know we are traveling to the next place we planned to go and boom Brother Hall sees us and starts driving next to me.  He's like Elder Hutchings so I look over still riding and he is like I can give you a ride.  I was like heck yea! So we went there and then we were tracting in the gigantic mansions area and it was so crazy! That night we went out to dinner with this old guy named Brother Peedin who is so amazing.  He took us to this really good mexican restaurant!! Then we found this really cool guy that night who we taught the restoration to and then he was like yea come back I want to learn more!! Awesome evening!

Friday- I had to go give instructions at a leadership training meeting!!  It was pretty funny and kinda crazy because I was like shouldn't you have gotten a district leader to have done this haha! Then we got to meet with this really cool less active member and we got free food at this place called Brueggers! Then we had 2 dinners - the second was so cool because we taught a non member in the bishops home. It was really really cool to be able to teach there.  We taught just about how God is our loving Heavenly Father!

Saturday- we biked a ton again but we had an awesome lesson with one of our investigators Finn who is super awesome.  Sadly he didn't come to church on Sunday but we had a great lesson and answered questions.  The whole time he was just like everything is just ringing good and true.  It was the best!!

Sunday we called home and yea!! Happy Mothers day to all the mom's!!!!  There was the best talk at church about mothers it was really really good!!  I felt like I was at general conference!! Then the calls it was really a great day I enjoyed it a ton!!  We ate this cool Japanese thing where you boil stuff in a broth thing and it was really good!!

Today we are going to go play sports and have a bbq it will be tons of fun!!

Love you all have a great week!!

Love Elder Dylan Hutchings

Happy Mother's Day

Ben Howington - Mormon Guitar - Check him out - AWESOME!!!!!

This week has flown by! Everything was pretty crazy but it was really good and exciting!!

Monday- we went up to a place called Wake Forrest and played a ton of basketball! It was so much fun. There was probably to many elders there for the tiny gym that we were in but it was really fun! Then we needed to leave to get some other elders home! We were able to get Elder Malyon a hair cut! That was good because his hair was so long! Then that night was really good we went and ate with a part member family that we helped move into the ward! We got to hear their story of becoming active again which was really cool! After that our plans got all messed up because of this appointment falling threw but we ended up tracting and it went good.  We didn't find anyone to teach but we had some great contacts and gave out a Book of Mormon! 

Tuesday- Was pretty slow we were out working hard but not to much happened! We found this lady named Hailey who is pretty cool and is interested in learning more about what we teach people! So that was pretty cool! We ate dinner with this family that has like 30 kids well 10 but it was a ton! To be honest it was kinda weird because we ate chili over spaghetti noodles. It actually tasted pretty good though! 

Wednesday- was crazy so we had district meeting like usual and then I went on exchange with a missionary named Elder Tobler.  He is interesting.  He really opened up to me and talked about stuff that he needed help on and it was really good! We got to help this one family while they were moving.  Then what was crazy was we were out tracting and we knocked on this part member family.  The husband wasn't home so we set up a time to go back that night. We went back later and we taught an awesome lesson on the restoration... and the member was 11 and she like recited the story of Joseph Smith and it was amazing!!!  The dad committed to reading the Book of Mormon! It was really great to have such an amazing lesson!!

Thursday- We visited this guy named Charlie Harper. He was really really nice! He wants to come back to church and it is crazy he is like old and has a bunch of back issues and is still taking care of his mom who has dementia.  He is the nicest guy ever!

Friday- All we did was tract and nothing happened it was kinda discouraging but it was all good!

Saturday- this is the day that it all got crazy! We found Finn Blackwell who is really awesome! We had a super long lesson with him.  It was over 30 mins on his door step. He had tons of good questions and was like yea I would love to have y'all come back!  He has never met missionaries before which I though was so crazy! Then we like went through most of the day and President texts us and was like I need y'all to call me. So we call him and he tells me that I am being released from being a district leader! I get to stay with Elder Malyon.  It was interesting but I was expecting it! :)  Then that night we met Chris and he is super cool.  We taught him the restoration and we asked him if he wanted to know if there was a prophet on the earth today and he was like well yea! So we talked about the Book of Mormon and we asked if he would read the Book of Mormon and was like yea!!  We said well here's a copy and all he says is wait is this free?? haha We were like yea its free!! It was pretty funny and then this guy was just a ding dong and was like Joseph Smith said stuff contrary to Christ and we were like what?? Then he just closed the door!

Sunday- Ben Howington!! I got to meet him it was so cool he threw down on the guitar and it was so cool!! His parents live in our ward and these members like us were like oh you like his music and boom personal concert thing set up it was so cool!! We got some cd's that were signed by him! It was by far the coolest thing ever!! 

It was over all a great week tons of fun!!!​

Love Elder Hutchings

Wet No Matter What!!

Monday- had a great preparation day it was tons of fun! We played this game called zombies.  Its kinda like raptor but with nerf guns and some other rules but it was tons of fun!! Then for dinner that night we went to this place called Steak n Shake and man did that milkshake hit the spot!! It kept me going for the night!! Because I was soaking wet!! When we left the apartment it was raining but not bad and we were on bike. Then the floods came. All I had decided to wear was my water resistant wind breaker because it was pretty humid... bad idea!!! I was soaked to the bone!!! Like every bit of me was wet!! I had puddles in the sleeves of my wind breaker!! The best thing ever was everyone was like Oh stay dry.. I couldn't get any wetter!! Hahaha It was a great night!

Tuesday- We got to teach Jackie and she is awesome. We took Brother Albright who is a character!!  He connected really well with her and it went pretty good. She had questions about prayer and the priesthood and prophets from reading the restoration pamphlet!! It was really cool and we were able to give her a Book of Mormon and a Bible! Then we got to play lumber jack because this guys tree fell onto his house!!!  We went and helped a member take it down with him!! It was awesome!!  It wasn't that big of a tree either!! :) I used a bone saw and went to town taking off limbs and stuff it was a ton of fun!!

Wednesday- I was on exchange with Elder Carrell and it was so much fun!! He is Spanish speaking so I got some good old Mexican food!! It was so good and I think I ate like 20 pounds!!!  It was the heaviest plate of food I have ever seen on my mission!! It was so good and then I ate this chili and man was it super hot!! I was like oh wow this thing is really really hot and everyone laughed and it was great!! Then that night we got Mexican ice idk it was in a plastic sack thing and it was really good!!  It was made with fresh fruit!!  We taught this kid who threw down on his parents for not bringing him to church!! Then this member threw down on him and we taught the gospel of Jesus Christ and told him about baptism and I just found out he came to church on Sunday!! :)

Thursday- was really hot!  JUST HOT!!!

Friday- we got a person all ready to come to church and got them a large print book of mormon and they were really excited to come and yea they didnt come on sunday! :(

Saturday we tracted all day and nothing happened but we sweated a ton!! 

And that is about it it was a pretty good week!

Love Elder Hutchings

Elder Carrell and I with Mexican Ice!!  Well just what was left!!

Elder Carrell and I!!

Roller Coasters

This week was a roller coaster. Everything was kinda bonkers but we had the car so it turned out pretty good and was pretty fun all at the same time!

Monday- We didn't do to much just kinda hung out here at the church and played some sports and had a good relaxing day! Not to much happened but we know we were needed because we helped a part member family move into the ward. Dang, did they EVER have a ton of stairs that we had to climb! It was an apartment building and they were on the top floor and it was exhausting!  Luckily, they didn't have that much stuff!!  We were like whoa what if this would have been a big move!!!  That would have been the worst but it was small and the sad thing was we only had one other person from the ward to help! It was on Monday at 4 so it was understandable! We also had dinner that night with the Bishop and he was telling us that our meal calendar is really sparse and he was like that needs to change!! He is an awesome bishop!

Tuesday- We got to go and do service on this "food trailer".  We helped this guy fix it and then clean and clear up his shop and what not but it was fun! The regular sketchy missionary service we do! But it was fun! Then that day was cool we got to meet with Jackie who is this really awesome lady who might have been meeting with missionaries before but we aren't sure.  She just moved here and we met her tracting! We taught her the restoration again and she is really interested so we will see how that goes! Then our other appointments kinda fell threw so we tracted quite a bit for the day and then we got to have dinner with Brother Farmer! Man is he the coolest! He has this huge German Shepard and he is like a rock and roll dude who plays the bass! He is so cool and he knows all these martial arts and he is the one with the ninja swords! He played the bass for us and is really good! It was a pretty awesome night!

Wednesday- We had district meeting like usual and then im not to sure what happened!!  We didn't go on an exchange but we will this week so i don't really know hmmmm... We had a dinner with a family named the Hills and they were really cool but other then that I don't really remember... oops

Thursday- Was pretty awesome we got to have dinner with Elder and Wister Porter who are a senior couple who wanted to feed us!!  So we got free food and we got to have dinner with Sister Stuart who is this other mission office staff.  It was pretty cool because it was her last day and we got to have dinner with her! Then we went and had a lesson with this guy who was formerly investigating and we had a talk about the god head and he tried to explain the trinity.  It was pretty good but super flawed and was interesting.  We are going to go back and talk to him about what is really true and it will be interesting! But it was fun!

Friday- Henry was found!!  This guy is so cool! He completely knows that god is real because grass grows! If that doesn't explain how awesome everything is I don't know what does! He has a really awesome story of being paralyzed and god healing him because he wasn't suppose to be able to walk! Then we found a snake an yes I got a picture with it and it was really awesome!! It scared us to death but we did what we needed to! Then that night I got to do 3 baptismal interviews and it was a crazy night!!  We did a ton of driving to each place and the interviews were all kinda crazy and it was just the most interesting thing I have ever done for interviews!!  Both of the interviews were in the homes and then 2 of the 3 were in front of everyone!!  It was kinda awkward with everyone staring at us looking back and forth!!  But it was pretty cool and everyone was ready to be baptized so that was pretty awesome!!

Saturday- This day was exashting and we found no one!!!  We tracted all day and we found not a single person!!  It was pretty upsetting but we still made it fun! We met this jw guy who had the weirdest interpretation of the bible and I just felt so bad for the guy! Then we met this guy Chris who was really cool but not really interested but he gave us each 3 bottles of water.  It was pretty cool and he was really nice!!

Sunday- I spoke in church and we had 2 people there so that was really cool.  Our new ward mission leader is cool and really funny!! It was interesting but fun and not to much happened!

It was a good week and that is about all that happened it was pretty great!

Love Elder Hutchings

Happy Easter - Catching Lizards!!

This week was crazy from beginning to the end. I just got a picture of AMAZING things that happened this weekend in Wilmington.  Will got baptized!!!  It was an amazing picture and I am so happy for him! Happy Easter!

Monday- We went and played laser tag and when I say laser tag I mean the coolest game of laser tag ever. So it was outside and what was really awesome was that it was real guns converted into laser guns!!  It was the coolest thing ever!  I was so impressed and it was just great! Really fun. We played a ton of games with it like a capture the flag thing and then like a survival one and it was crazy and just a blast!! Then that night we met Sharon who is really awesome.  It was crazy how it happened. We were biking to visit a recent convert in the ward and we took a wrong turn.  Well, we see one of the people we knocked on who said to come back some time and boom we find out she loves the church and has been missing it and wants to get back into it.   She went to church for 2 years with her ex husband.  It was funny and just crazy how it always works out!  Then the recent convert was so cool! He has this ninja sword and he cut straight threw a  water bottle with it it was so sharp!

Tuesday- We went out and we tried contacting some of the people the Elders had contacted before which usually never works but we found 2 new investigators.  Ones name is Raymond and the other is Jackie.  They are both awesome. We just found them on some notes in the area book and we decided to contact them and it worked! So that was really cool.  We were able to get out with a member of the bishopric and we went and saw Michelle Peterson.  While we were there she bore her testimony of the Book of Mormon and she is so close to being able to be baptized.  It is so cool!!   That night we went to see Jimmy but sadly he didn't answer so we haven't been able to see him this week but we will get in contact with him!

Wednesday- We had zone training and it was great.  I gave some  instructions.   Other then that the meeting was really good haha we just had to get past the bad one;) hahah   Later, I went on an exchange with some Elders and it was a great.  Really fun and they are doing really good nothing really exciting happened but it was a good day!

Thursday- we finished our exchange and then we had interviews with President and Sister James and those were really good it was suppose to be 15  mins but both of mine were 30 haha!!!  It probably wasn't good because I threw the schedule off but its all good.  I was really able to talk with both of them and it was really great!  We talked about obedience and it was just funny some of the comments by President and Sister James!  

Friday- All i remember is my bike tire ended up flat and our appointments fell threw.  It was a great day though because we were still able to find 2 new investigators.  We got taken out to dinner at Chili's and it was really good!  The members who took us out were friends with Elder Malyons family! 

Saturday- we fixed my flat tire and then got to work.  It went really good and it came time for our appointment that night and we were tracting in another area.  We needed to get to where our appointment was and boom flat tire again!!  I was so upset but I ran my bike all the way back and we were on time!!  We were doing so good and then the appointment texted us and cancelled!!  It's a good thing I had a ton of sweat beading because other wise you would have seen the tears hahahhahaha jkjk!!!  So I fixed the bike and then we we went back out and at the end of the night it was flat again!!  We called a member and they saved us by coming and giving us a ride home!

Sunday- I caught a lizard!! It was really awesome!! Then church was great.  The Easter program was really really good the choir put it together.  I really enjoyed it! Sadly we only had 1 person there and we were suppose to have like 4 or 5.  It was lame but then that night we went to meet a part member family moving into the ward and we met them and  then on the way home we met Joseph.  He is interested in learning more about the gospel and it was really cool.  This all happened while walking because my bike is still broken with a flat tire!

This week has been great and it was a great easter!!  I hope y'all had a great Easter!

Love Elder Dylan Hutchings

I caught a Lizard!!

Isn't he cute!!

I gave him a Piggy Back Ride!!

Happy Easter

From Elder Maylon and I!!!

Duke University!!!

This is what happened this week - it was the best! There was one part that wasn't the best for Elder Malyon! But it was pretty great so let me tell you about it!

Monday- After getting off of emailing we went and did our shopping and ran around for a bit. Then for like the day we played a ton of sports. We started with a game of basketball with some Elders and then for some reason we played four square!!  It was kinda weird but it was good! Then the best thing ever we played a huge game of soccer in the gym and it was great! I wont lie I am not in soccer shape at all but it was tons of fun.  We had all of the Spanish Elders with us so they were better then most of the usual missionaries! It was pretty great! Then that night we went and tracted but we didn't find anyone.  We were able to find a less active member and visited with him and he was really fun.  His name is James and he could talk your ears off!   He was cool and he had like 20 million books in his apartment it was pretty crazy! 

Tuesday- Great day, we went and worked really hard ane we found a new investigator. What was really awesome was we went and had dinner with a family named the Hemmings. They have some girls from Brazil who live with them who aren't members and so we were able to teach and answer any questions that they had.  It was a really cool experience. Not to much happened after that other than we tracted into guy who was really drunk it was kinda funny because he was like yo i am so drunk come back again... then as we were leaving we look over and he is like smoking weed haha! Funny night!

Wednesday- What a day!! Went up to Durham and had a great zone conference.  I had to instruct for a chapter of preach my gospel. It was pretty great... then we went to the Duke gardens which was super beautiful!  I got to see a ton of missionaries that I don't normally see so that was awesome.  We went and toured the campus and we got to go into the big chapel there which is super beautiful it was huge and amazing!! And then Frank Jackson let us into the Duke Hall of Fame Museum.  It was amazing so now I have officially been on almost all of the big college campuses here in North Carolina!! Way awesome experience!! That night I got to go on an exchange with Elder Hansen in my district and it was a great exchange.  We got some milk shakes which were super good and huge!! Just a great day!!

Thursday- Ended up exchanging back and when I got Elder Malyon and told me about his exchange.  t was pretty crazy and weird so that was funny to hear but I will now need to go on an exchange with the other Elder!  That morning we found 2 other new investigators! Then that night was cool.   We got to go and meet with a man named Jimmy who is really awesome.  He has some medical stuff but is so ready for the gospel and it was great to sit down and teach him! He is dating a less active member of the church but they are ready to be apart of the church and he will be baptized here soon!

Friday- Was a crazy experience we went out and tracted all day long and when I say all day I mean like all day.  We had no success at all!!!  Everyone was just like no I'm not interested and it was getting discouraging but we kept on pushing! Then that night we were blessed and it was amazing! WE kept knocking and we finally meet Boris and Tray. Both are like we need to learn more and they are both ready it was really awesome!

Saturday- We went and taught Jimmy again that night it was defiantly the best lesson that we have ever taught and it was on the restoration.  It was so good!

Sunday- we finally got to meet the ward and it was great.  T hey are really cool and tons of members want to come out with us. The weird thing is we go to church at 2-5 pm it is really weird haha!  Then the weirdest thing happened, we were in the like lobby area of the church and next thing we know we are surrounded by all the young women!!  Like the whole group it was so weird!! Hahaha but it was funny! 

Today we are going to go play laser tag and Elder Carrell and I are going to wear these freaking weird shirts!!!  It's going to be so much fun!

Love

Elder Dylan Hutchings

Elder Hutchings in Raleigh

Beautiful view in Raleigh!!

Elder Jorgenson and I at Duke Gardens

The Old Chapel at Duke

Elder Carrell and I at the Duke Museum!!!

Elder Arveseth and I with Frank Jackson!!!

The Land of Hills!!!!

Well boys and girls I am no longer at the beach :( But the good new is well... yea I'll think of some. Haha well this week has been great very fun and interesting. It has also been really hard. Elder Malyon is my new companion and he came out with Elder Miller. We are both brand new to the area so it was exciting. I have already learned a ton and grown a lot. Yes, with all of these hills here in Raleigh biking is the best! But I have the car this week! Well now is the time to take you through the week.

Monday- Preparation day was fantastic. We played this game that was kinda like lacrosse, except you had a half cut gallon milk jug and a tennis ball! It was a ton of fun and got way intense... my team won! We played that for most of the day and it was great. I got to spend most of the night seeing people who I wanted to before I had to leave.  We went and saw the Thorups who are this awesome old couple who are just the most righteous people you can ever meet!!  They are both around 90 and he still goes camping with the scouts!!!  It is crazy but they fed us and then gave us cookies and their cookies are really good! Then I got to go see Brother Grishman who is the best.  He is super cool and I was really glad to see him.  I got his email and number so I will hopefully stay in contact with him. Then I got to see Will before I left.. he gave me a hug and was like will you be able to get back down to my baptism and it was killing me that I wont be able to :/ but that's okay!!  Elder Miller will take care of him.

Tuesday- we drove up to transfers, well, rode with Brother Walker who gave us a ride up.  I got to see a ton of people when I got here so that was really fun.  Then I found Elder Malyon and we took off to the area. We then had to go back and give the car back to the other elders and then we waited for them to do what they needed and then we finally got picked up and taken back to the house. We got all unpacked and then worked on finding out everything we could about the area.  We ate the most nasty ravioli thing ever!!!!  It was so gross but that was all that we had so we put it down! Then we were able to get out and work that night. It was great because we found Anika and she is a miracle!!  She was like you caught me at the perfect time it was such a blessing!

Wednesday- was our first district meeting and I got to meet everyone in the district.  It was fun and then that day we went out and worked and nothing really happened but we are slowly and steadily learning the area so that is really great!

Thursday- We finally meet one of the people the elders were teaching and she is awesome.  She is really prepared to be baptized so we just need to help her get to church and teach her more stuff and then she will be ready! So that will be great and then we met Brother Peedin who is awesome and has chest hair that is like 4 feet long it was great!! Then that night we got to help the washer and dryer man install our new dryer.  It was pretty great and he  made it very educational.  It was funny because I was kinda like I've pulled stuff out like this all of my life (air conditioners)... it was awesome.

Friday- and the rain came pouring down but I didn't get wet hahaha. I was in a meeting all day for leadership it was great. I learned a ton on being a better leader.  What to do better and How we are the ones who lead the mission and the mission won't be any better then its leaders. It was really great. Then I got to go back and do missionary work and we got to meet Jimmy Harris another person the elders we teaching.  He is really cool he has been through a ton of medical stuff and has had a ton of near death experiences in his life and is only 31 years old. It is pretty crazy.and that was a miracle because we lost our ride and it was super far away.   We called this other member that we had just met and he was like yea it will work out perfectly for me to go with you and it was a blessing!!! 

Saturday- we found Ronald who is awesome.  We taught him the restoration and he was like I am ready for a change in my life!!  We testified of how this is the change he wants and needs and he was like okay when can we meet. It was great and then we biked all the way to the stake center where we spent the rest of the day watching conference!! 

Sunday- we watched conference almost all of the day then had a great dinner with the Musters who are really cool members.  We got to know them and they are both funny and very nice.

This week has been really great and really hard.  It has been tons of fun and we were able to work really hard. We are both happy to be where we are now and it will be a great transfer!! 

Love Elder Dylan Hutchings