Week 36!!! Fisher's of Men.....

Ruthan got these pictures sent to her of Elder Killian and his companion..enjoying some nice fishing on P-day

Here the Elder's are enjoying the fountain and the deer are just up the hill watching what the boys are up to!!

Week 35...Elder Killian's future Cat!!!

 Kody wanted to show a picture of the most AMAZING cat he has ever seen!!! In fact he thinks he might need to ask if he can buy it when he comes home from his mission...okay to be honest he actually thinks this is the ugliest cat he has ever seen......

 When Kody talks about seeing deer all the time, he really means it.  This is just outside his apartment window. There is a reason that the deer season and hunting regulations are very different than Idaho.

They had a Zone Conference last week.  These are all the missionaries serving in the Winchester Stake in the Baltimore Maryland Mission.

Week 34

We get to enjoy some pictures as Petersburg, WV begins to move towards Spring!!!

 This would be a nice place to fish.  Since Kody is planning on visiting during hunting season after his mission maybe he can do a little fishing as well!!

                                    Slowly but surely the landscape is starting to green-up!!!

Week 33...Called to Serve

PETERSBURG, WV 

Transfer calls came yesterday and I am staying another transfer in Petersburg WV with elder Thueson!!! 

It's super awesome here and not the city so I am cool with it

Been having other great adventures as well still working on getting the Malibu up some points of this area because we have knocked literally all the doors in the surrounding areas we have to go to the outskirts of the area and the people out there are not as happy. 

We have not hit a deer yet but we were sitting in our apartment for dinner and I look out the window and a deer about slams against our apartment and another jumps over our car followed by 3 or 4 more. Thought I was dreaming for a second but nope. 

Just started snowing again this morning heard there was quite the storm in Idaho but I don't have to worry to much about that. 

It's kierras 11th birthday today so make sure everyone bothers her about it she would really appreciate that  

We have gone exploring a little bit on preparation day that's what the pictures ARE from there are some really cool places here I would go fishing but it's very expensive for a non resident so probably not at the top of my list but we do have fishing poles we took them from the Romney WV ELDERS. 

There is a lady here that has a little tractor that wants me to help her 

With her garden because she don't know how to use it so I am going to try and get permission for that but not promising anything it would just be super awesome. 

Because we have been doing a lot of service we got the great opportunity to install a hot water heater for someone so that's pretty sick and moving wood for someone is the next project and then we are going go help someone with a lot of sheep. Because they all need shots and tails docked and apparently he has a lot. He has nice ones he wins at the fair every year with them then we get to help with calves they are all about born this time of the year so I am not to far from home if you look at it like that 

Anyways I will provide pictures and info when the time comes 

Love y'all. 

Week 32..Trying to stay Organized and Enjoying Conference

Happy late Easter!!!

This week has been slower as well temperatures have been up and down from 60 degrees to 80 degrees with 51 percent humidity. No more snow but definitely rain. But rain is common, if it didn't rain at least 2 times a week here I would think it was the second coming or something. 

General conference was really good we watched it in the church, but all the members watched it at there house so me and elder Thueson brought chairs from the mother's lounge and Pepsi then we set up the projector ourselves and watched conference that way. We did miss the priesthood session though because we got McDonald's for lunch and it did not sit well at all and that sucked. But we did watch the rest of conference on Saturday. 

The Sunday session of conference we went to an awesome member who wanted us to come over for Easter she made sweet potatoes, steak,ribs, corn, Mac and cheese, beans, mash potatoes, banana cream pie, PEPSI, noodles and chicken broth and a Easter cake, they are a super awesome family that takes care of us pretty decently. 

In between sessions of conference they let us play poole downstairs because we had no other plans. So it was pretty cool. 

Others things have been going pretty good we have been having success, slow success. We definitely have time to clean well I clean but it's okay he I clean the entire house and elder Thueson does the dishes when he feels like it  

By the picture you can tell that I like to keep my side of the room more organized and cleaner. I'll clean his side of the room sometimes. And make his bed occasionally. 

Anyways we had interviews with President and I got a feeling that I am going to stay in Petersburg another transfer but we will see. It's a pretty nice place here so I won't have a problem staying here in all its glory as long as I don't have to go to the city I will be fine :)

Hope everything isn't going go bad there and talk to you next week. 

Week 31...Let it Snow!!!

PETERSBURG WV. 

Been a slower week in Petersburg, but there are always great things going on here. 

But the weather is usually not to bad out here, but then the first day up spring it dumps 14 inches of snow so we got snowed in and our cars were grounded for 3 days. Saved us miles not having to go to district meeting Tuesday but none the less I have to be moving around and sitting in the apartment isn't what I call productive. 

After the storm cleared up a little bit we definitely started working again. There is an 8 year old that we have been teaching and he wants to be baptized and then a part member who just needs to find a date to get baptized on.

This technology is good on some aspects but bad on others, it is so much more difficult to plan and put in teaching records, you have to follow and read a whole bunch of different stuff, and to add to that I wasn't born technologically inclined to use any of this so.... 

But I think I will figure it out sometime maybe 

We go to this one members house to give her a blessing quite regularly and she has like 6 dogs, I love them but elder Thueson is highly allergic so every time we go there we have to come back to the apartment and hook up to the nebulizer or something.  Sometimes you got to take one for the team

A cute girl about my age tried to talk to me in subway and not about the church but I was strong and gave her a Mormon.org card and said visit the website to learn more about are church and walked away. I've learned to "lock my heart." So be proud of me please!!!

And when people say are you able to ride horses, that's a rough one to overcome but I hesitantly say "sadly no" 

We have interviews tomorrow with President in Winchester so we get to split the miles with romney so that's a blessing. We also are gonna have a sick car ride with my MTC companion so I am packing healthy snack for the ride like Pepsi, potato chips sunflower seeds and candy bars for breakfeast. The usual missionary food, and then taco bell after

  Times is flying by here on my mission i feel like I just got to the MTC but I am working towards 8 months in the field i have grown up so fast "not mentally" 

Anyways have a great time back in the West see you in sometime, can't do math right now love y'all 

ELDER KILLIAN

 Virginia and West Virginia have not gotten much snow this year so this 14 inches in Petersburg was a big deal. The other issue that Kody (Elder Killian) did not mention is that we had A LOT of rain before which then froze and left about an inch of ice under the snow.

Yes, in Idaho this snow would have been nothing but not everyone in the Mission comes from areas with snow and there are no snow tires on these vehicle so it becomes a HUGE safety issue.  The other thing to think about is there are A LOT people who have no idea how to drive in snow....I mean there are people who have 4x4's and are stuck in the middle of the road😆

Week 30....

Petersburg WV

Weeks been going pretty good here, its been a little bit slow but we got someone who wants to be baptized, she has been to church like 5 times and knows it is all true she wants to move out first, so lets just say we are double time helping her move out, I would want to move out to because her mom is a little crazy, that's her own words.

Things have been a little crazy adjusting to the smart phones some things good and somethings bad, we are gonna have to try a video chat district meeting because we use 720 miles for district meeting and exchanges each transfer, so we are using members to take us places because now we can only go 14 miles until the end of the month. But we had a good time during exchanges anyways I got to go with my MTC companion on one and he wants to stay here now, probably because I am awesome not because Petersburg is awesome compared to Romney.

I was straight up honest with a member and said we are almost out of ramen noodles and he took us to a country kitchen and the next day to Subway, its brother Hose he is pretty sick, he is the one who's wife wants to be baptized they just want to move out, he just got the Melchezidek priesthood and went through the temple, so that was pretty sick.

Got another investigatior yesterday named Roy and he said just before you to showed up my mom told me that I had to get one of them book of Mormons, i guess it was his lucky day because believe it or not i had one. So we will see how he likes it.

Time is flying by fast out here i am 7 months in the mission field in 4 days still feels like yesterday that i walked up to my trainers we the big smile they had on their face, we have had to wash the car every 3 days because of the dirt, and its hard to go some places without getting the card bottomed out, so i am thinking of putting a lift kit on the Malibu and throwing some 31's on that sucker, see the look on peoples face when we pull into zone conference with that :) 

Anyways having a great time here in this area and continuing to do are best!!!

ELDER KILLIAN

                           This is Kody on splits with the companion he had in the MTC........

One of the neat things about serving out her is all of the history in this area that helped make this a free country, where you can worship as you please.  This is at one of the battle fields of the Civil War.

                                    Kody's zone leaders and other missionaries in the zone.

                                              Looking down on the city of Petersburg, WV

Elder Killian says The Lord knew where you would be able to serve best and it just happens to be full of some of his favorite things, cattle, hound dogs, wild game and a chance to serve.