Death and new life.

May 26, 2014

Well first things first, we had transfers this week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and I am.....................Staying. Who would have guessed. Also once again I will training. Start taking bets, Latino or Gringo?!?!?!?!? What will he be? I am super pumped to be training again it is my favorite assignment. A new life is being born here in San Carlos.

One of the biggest adventures took place late Thursday night, by late I mean about 9:00. But we were just finishing the mission council with our ward mission leader and the bishop when the Elder Quorum President entered the room and asked for two of the four missionaries to come and help him out with "something". As my companion and I had finished first we stood up to go and help him. Well, as we left he explained to us that there was a man outside who was a little drunk and asking for help, The President told us that he wanted us to help take the man to the hospital about two minutes away. Yea, no problem. But as it so happened as we exited the building the man had fallen to the ground and was convulsing there. Quickly my companion, and I accompanied by the Elders Quorum President and a newly ordained future missionary administered the man a priesthood blessing. As things progressed the man stopped breathing, his pulse stopped, he died. But thanks to my parents (having taught me in my youth the things that I should do aka scouts aka CPR training about three years ago) and the spirit, I knew what to do and successfully administered CPR to the man, even though his heart stopped beating, we didn't give up and time after time we administered to him and God restored life to his body. He was restored to consciousness and then the ambulance came and took him away. But what a blessing to administer to one of Gods children in such a way. I am so blessed.

We had a lot of success this week with the less active members of the church in our area. We had a total of 7 less active members in the church this Sunday and lifted the weekly attendance of about 50-60 to a wopping 74 people, Open the overflow people! God is at work in San Carlos!!!!

I would just like to tell the story of two of the less actives that assisted the church this Sunday. A mother and a son. Three years ago the son was heavily involved in drugs and other undesirable sins, that is when the Sister missionaries found him and began to teach him. A little while later he was baptized, when his parents saw that change in his life they too united with the church. Sometime last year he (now an active elder in the church, and his mother a counselor in Relief Society) and his mother stopped going to church. When we found them this week we retaught and testified about the truth of the restoration and the love of God for each of his children. By the end, the son, a twenty seven year old man, was in tears and he turned to his mother and asked her, mom why am I crying I don't get it. His mother responded Felipe its the spirit. What Felpie said next made me think and reflect on how blessed I truly am, he said, Wow it has been so long since Ive felt the spirit, so long, I forgot how lovely it is, I like it. 

How lovely it is indeed, how blessed we truly are. 

I love each of you and God does as well always remember that.

Elder Hutchins

Order

May 19, 2014


Well this week was bangin!!!! Order was finally established to our house. Since I have arrived there has been a constant sink full of dishes, a very dirty bathroom, and we didn't have a map to use in our sector.....Well as of today, all of those things have been accomplished and I feel great! Gods house is a house of order and so ours should be as well.

We ate lunch Tuesday with the Guzman family, less actives, who really want to come back to church and are going to be doing it this following week! They are very interesting people, but they really have the desires. We were walking by their house later on in the week and Brother Guzman stuck his head out of his house and called to us, apparently he had been struggling to put together a table and some chairs that they had just bought for their new house and had begun to loose hope, but as he put it, "You guys just show up whenever we need help" And help we did. I love doing unplanned service.

We also met with a lady whose husband is dying from cancer and she was really disanimated with life. Her dad died four years ago and she still hasn't been able to move on. We shared with her part of the plan that God had for her and for her family and just did our best to cheer her up.

We also gave a few blessings this week to a family whose grandpa committed suicide this week. Really as a missionary and as a disciple of Christ we are called to mourn with those that mourn and comfort those who stand in need of comfort. I think that it the hardest and the more rewarding part of being a disciple of Jesus Christ.

We brought nine people to church to day and so the church assistance grew a bunch, from 56 last week to 67 this week!!! Moving up. 

Our investigator Margarita is progressing really well, despite not being able to remember much she is beginning to remember more and more and wants to be baptized. We promised her that she would change as she progressed towards baptism. Well I can testify that she is changing and it is very notable. 

Also just so you guys know it rained a ton this week!!! I don't know why, but when it rains i just get filled with energy to work and work and work, I love it!!!!!!!!!

Love all of you

Elder Hutchins