Week 28....The BIG 19!!!

I'm 19 now!!!!!!

But it's a weird number,when I am 20 that will be important but not a big deal now.

Anyways we got 60 mph winds one night in west Virginia, so the night before this member wanted this massive tree cut down (like a 60 ft pine tree and healthy as a horse I think Katrina would have a hard time getting this tree down) but its his house and his tree, and he was concerned its was gonna land on his house when the wind starts to blow, so we went to help him, before he cut it he handed me an elder Thuesonlike hay bale sized rope and said to pull when this tree starts to fall. So he just starts sawing into this massive tree and he cuts it wrong and it falls backwards onto his house, that was a long awkward silence as ever. We made sure to get out of there quick before his wife killed him, I guarantee that he was sleeping on the broken porch swing.

We didn't have any destruction on our apartment but there was tractor trailers tipped over and horse trailers all over the place trees fallen across the road, the Romney elders which are about an hour away had a tree land on there trailer when they were sleeping, they fine though.

Teaching here is still going pretty good, we have those nights when its hard to find but over all I love Petersburg its super cool. 

Me and Elder Thueson are doing super good here we keep each other super entertained, I have to keep an I on him so he doesn't light anything on fire like heating up light bulbs and putting them in the sink, im putting locks on all the knife cabinets, and I have to take the nerf gun away because he put needles through the top of the darts so I don't want nerf darts sticking in my legs. A herd of deer crossed the road slowly like nothing was wrong and he wanted me just to tap one, so I just turned the car off and said this is the Lords car Elder but he is awesome and a hard worker super cool kid.

Petersburg  is pretty cool and I am having a great time here, we burn a ton of miles here we are given 1600 but we have to drive 540 miles in total just to district meeting in one transfer, and are investigators and appointments are all over so its a little crazy keeping miles to a minimum.

Anyways have a great week.

 This is one of the "victims"of the Nor'Easter that Elder Kilian talks about in his letter.

 We did decided to head to West Virginia to surprise Kody for his 19th Birthday. It was a fun adventure and it is a beautiful area.  West Virginia is very rural so Kody is loving that.

This is just one picture of the what the area looks like.  Once the trees start blooming more we will have to go again...plus Kody can always use more food :)

                              This is the sign on the road that leads to the church building.

 This is the actual church building.  It is a small but beautiful building!!  We did not see the Elder's car so I decided to go in and get Elder Killian's address.  I walked in and found him in the chapel for Priesthood Opening Exercises, I walked up behind him and put my arm around him and asked where he lived.

Unfortunarely, we did not get a picture but the look on his face was PRICELESS!!!

 This is looking at the steeple of the church from Kody's aparment complex it is literally behind the church building.

 Since it was his BIG 19...we had to do a little bit of decorating.  We considered doing more but we left it at this.

 We brought a cherry pie and whip cream, Pepsi, Mac and Cheese, milk, flavored straws to drink milk with and Vienna Sausages, (we learned that he does not really like Vienna sausages...always learning something new :) )

 This is their apartment and Jim is busy sending pictures and messages to Ruthan.

 This is the name of the apartments and the funny thins is that the owner is also Mayor of Petersburg.

 As we waited for Kody and his companion to come back from church the girls decided to work on their jump roping skills.

Everyone was SUPER excited to see Elder Killian.  The first thing Aidan said to Kody was, "I'm a Man"!!

 Everyone after we had lunch with the Ward...yes, I did not do a great job with the picture positioning.  I have to say that Elder Killian and his partner are quite the team and so funny!!

This is a picture of a picture.  The two Elder's in the middle are the Zone leaders!!

 Once we got back and before we left we had a great time talking with the Elder's and laughing and laughing.  We loved giving them ideas for food..such as if you hit a deer, gut that baby and then you have some food for quite a while....or there is always raccons and possums on the road!!

As we were waiting for the Elder's to come back we were invited to the ward "Linger Longer" (this is when the member's of the ward bring food and after the meetings they talk and enjoy time together).

It was a lot of fun and we got to talk with Kody and catch up on all kinds of things.  I asked Kody a question..."Is the mission worth it?"  He said YES, YES, YES!!!

One other item...Elder Killian is now on Facebook.  This is part of the mission requirements at this point.  He cannot instant message but you can leave comments for him.