Una Semana LOCA

Happy Halloween!

Well this week was wack! We opened our new chapel this week and so Monday night our ward mission leader told us that we were going to be in charge hosting an open house, where we would invited everyone to come in and see the new chapel, every night from 7 until 930..... My companion and I went crazy with our crazy art skills.....and made a bunch of posters and hung them up around town. As luck would have it my companion (newly called district leader) had to do interviews and meet with other missionaries this week to get to know their investigators, so Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday we were gone from our sector visiting other sectors and other investigators.

Lunch time Jack-O-Lanterns

And so with a schedule like this we did not have a ton of time to work in our own sector so this week could go one of two ways, really good (because the chapel was opening) or really bad (because we had no time to work). With this thought in mind may I just take a minute to say that when the scriptures tell us that God works in mysterious ways, they are not lying, he really does. And so this week where it seemed like we had no time to accomplish anything, we some how had time to visit all our investigators, all the new converts, and a lot of less active members. In fact Saturday, the only day that we had free to work in our own sector we had 10 lessons!!! That's a lot. God gave of the strength and the opportunity to accomplish everything we needed to.

Then came Sunday, let me give you a little back story: A few months ago the attendance for our ward was about 75-80 people, recently we have been getting roughly 100. This week was the first week that we would be in our own town with a brand new remodeled chapel. Plus it was ward conference. And so everyone was apprehensive as how many people would attend Sunday. Well in short it was a full house. 166 people, 16 less active members, 6 recent converts, and 4 investigators. God blesses his children.

Quickly other interesting things that happened this week

Jack-O-Banana-Lantern

-Sean (our new convert) received the priesthood and ordained to the office of a deacon

-We had a service project cleaning up a members backyard and it was pretty much a cliff, so I scaled up it with a hatchet cutting down trees and pulling weeds as I tried not to fall off, it was awesome.

-We had another service project taking down an older house, my companion and I almost died because of the amount of deadly spiders living there. (But we are both fine and the house is gone)

-The ward enlisted me to help them make popcorn at an activity this week, somehow they heard of my skills in that area...

-I ran into a guy from Canada, that was neat

Well that is not even a hundredth of the things I could have put, but it will suffice. I love all of you, keep trying to be better that you were yesterday.

Remember God loves you and that he does indeed answer prayers.

Much love,

Elder Hutchins