Week 7..adventures in Hagerstown...Kody Style

Hello y'all how you doing, because i am doing great in case you were wondering,

this week has been a little chaotic running around doing stuff like crazy but we have been having loads of fun here. I have been teaching a lot of people and getting them to church has been pretty fun.

So i got tired of an investigator he is just lazy honestly he is a great guy and is funny but has been being taught for years but wont actually put in the effort to get baptized. So i told my companions that i will tell him what's up. they didn't believe me so I walked in there, and sat down and he completely changed the whole conversation to a return missionary that was murdering people so I told him what's up and at the end I had him and his fiancé crying they told us that was the most they have ever felt the spirit. And my comps jaws were dropping the whole time. Then they said they are going to try and get married as soon as they can and are going to get baptized after that.

 See anger does fix everything and all these years I have been told differently:)

So I finally got mugged recently, literally somebody through a mug at me, and after this happened my companions looked at me and said don't you dare throw that back. And at the moment that's what I was thinking. SO now my companions know me very well.

I was getting told about a Maryland winter and they showed me pictures and it looked like a picture from a little snow globe I mean this was nothing there was like no snow at all and then this is the best part. they cancelled the schools for a whole week. And maybe its worse than it looks but I think Idaho takes the gold metal for coldest winter.

Not something I should be bragging about, but I don't have to be around that for almost 2 years.

             I have been having to explain livestock to everybody in my district. The worst part is that elder Richins is basing his knowledge of the difference of a bull or a heifer off the movie barnyard, he literally thought that all cattle had utters.

So like I do, I straight up told him what the difference is.

And I survived another meal with the family they made this pizza role thing and the first bite of it I pulled out 3 long greasy pieces of hair out of my mouth, and I had to tell them I needed it to go. I lost my appetite so bad, that fasting the next day was very easy.

Well we wake up for soccer every morning at the church, our whole district does, they are trying to teach me how to kick a soccer ball low and not so fast because I about took 2 elders heads off this morning. But I am learning to be more careful. They told me I should probably stick with football but you are not able to do that here so soccer and basketball is what we get to do. I already got grounded from basketball for a few days. Because I played to ruff 

But other than that we have been having a lot of fun we joke all the time I keep the good times better, and everyone here likes my singing all the time. Like when I stop singing and try and be quiet they walk up to me and tell me to shut up. so I just keep singing all the time. People here just appreciate me singing a lot more. And instead of the word annoying they use funny. And there is never a dull moment with this elder. I mean I love firth and miss it a little but seriously I don't miss people telling me to stop singing but love y'all 

Around here people don't say pop you have to say soda or a lot of people don't understand that, and people look at you differently when you say firth things you have to elaborate when people ask why do you say that.

Anyways,

Love y'all 

$$$$ELDER KILLIAN$$$$

$END TO ALL

Since I am overseeing this blog I get to add my 2 cents on a few things that Kody mentioned.  First off..yes the winters out here are different than in Idaho and it is true that it takes very little snow to close down an area and the schools...I have laughed many times about the schools being closed for less than an inch of snow...but the problem is that ice is an issue and that is most often why the schools shut down.  If we get a nor'easter in the winter and it stays in place spinning for a time, we get what they call, "snowmegadon's" then Kody will get to do a lot of shoveling but it leaves rather quickly.

I do agree with Kody in the almost 10 years we have been there I have never seen it as cold as Idaho can get...

One other note...stay tuned for some pictures of what Hagerstown looks like this time of year..the trees are BEAUTIFUL!!!