rockin Kingwood!

Well Easter was awesome yesterday! As was my birthday! :D We were fed both lunch and dinner by members, and there were tons of people at each one. It definitely made each one interesting! other than that things are doing great. Kingwood is all the sudden getting really hot, but really wet too. Its about 70-75 outside right now, and the high is 80. We're expecting thunderstorms all week, which of course we still get to go do work in. This week is going to be really busy though. We're doing exchanges, correlation, district meeting, interviews and Jeff's Baptism. Btw, keep him in your prayers this week! :)

We had a good week with finding this week. There was one week that we found three new people to teach, then we found two others as the week went on. Kingwood is being a rather fruitful dead area. I wish we had this many blessings back in Ashland! It would've been awesome! Elder Allred and I are going to be doing a little nerf war thing with the young men this week for mutual. We're essentially gonna play capture the flag with nerf guns, and its going to rock. I'm most definitely going to sport the new shirt that I got from Katrina today and the ward gave me some bday money(which I didnt want to take but they insisted) and went and bought me a cheap little nerf gun. It packs quite a punch. :D

Other than that, not much is going on this week. It was a long week this week cause we walked everywhere so that we would have enough miles to meet the zoneleaders half-way between here and Clarkburg twice for exchanges, and then interviews on saturday. Keep praying for Jeff Freeland and Garrett Wolfe! Thanks and love y'all!

~Elder Wiederholt

303 E High St #3

Kingwood WV 26537

rainy and windy

So we've been doing great in Kingwood. All of our appointments fell through this week, so we had the opportunity to go knocking a lot. It was really windy and rainy, and apparently there were tornado warnings all week, but we didnt know a thing about them. Go figure, hmm? Well obviously we didnt need to worry about them here otherwise we would've heard about them. Plenty of people were really nice and let us in out of the rain and wind and fed us lunch and things. Several asked us to come back, but we dont know if theyre interested or not.

So funny story. Yesterday we were driving to church, about 8 in the morning, going 50 down the street(which is actually below the speed limit) and just trying to make it to Ward Council in time. All the sudden, a small bunch of small birds flew out and landed on the road right in from of the truck, about 2 seconds before I got there. I had several thoughts go through my head like: should I swerve into their flight bath? should I honk? I cant slow down in time, should I just speed up? Well, of course, by the time all these thoughts ran through my head, I had already plowed them under. I felt bad, but my companion told me that they deserved it for being that dumb. I've learned an important lesson: Joseph Smith said that we can't progress until we end the unneccessary killing of God's creatures. Even if they're suicidal. Just kidding about the feeling bad part, we laughed for the next 10 minutes of driving to the church. :D

This week we also helped a less active family to paint a room in their home. We've been trying forever to convince them to call us if they needed anything, and it took her breaking her foot and losing her mom, and him getting heart surgury to finally call us. Thats what the picture is about. Elder Allred kalked some corners of the room. We did a pretty good job! Then, they fed us BBQ church and steak as a "payment." It was pretty darn good eatin. OH! Jeff, the man getting baptized on the 30th, gave us a bunch of deer meat. Just fyi, deer steak fajitas rock!!

Well, thats pretty much all that really happened this week. Til next week! Love y'all!

~Elder Shain C. Wiederholt

303 E. High St #3

Kingwood, WV 26537

Good week :D

I suppose the weather is a good thing to start off with. As good as another. Yesterday it was 80 degrees, and the humidity was so high that the humidity gauge on the thermoniter(sp?) actually broke. Today it was nice, but now as I look out the window, its starting to look REALLY bad. Theres supposed to be thunderstorms all day tomorrow too, and thats walk-n-talk tuesday. Sorry about my spelling, West virginia's getting to me..

This week was pretty average. We did great on all our goals, but of course numbers dont matter! :) We have also found out that the Jehovahs Witnesses have beengoing around to all of our investigators houses several times a week. I'm sure theyre doing neighborhoods and dont mean to go to specifically our investigators, but its literally a couple a day. We had one actually drop us because of it, for some reason :/ Opposition in all things!

We're starting to get ready for Jeff's baptism on the 30th of this month. Next month we have another date set that the world couldn't stop. His name is Garrett Wolfe. He's super legit, and just 10 years old! What a cool kid, love him to death. There's another lady we've taught but we're waiting a couple weeks to go back. Her husband was deployed and just came back last night. The internet was down a couple hours ago when we first came to check our emails, so we went shopping. We ran into them at walmart and got to meet her husband and just chat and let him know that we're real people too. Their daughter is sooo cool! She came up to me and showed me her shirt that said "My daddy is my hero!" AAHH! Such a cool kid! She also promised me a coloring page. I'm excited :D

Oh, there it is, the downpour...

Well. Elder Allred and I are rocking Kingwood. It was once a dead area, but we brought it back to life in the name of Jesus Christ and we're working hard. He's so legit. We do our best to share everything, except stuff in the bathroom, closets and our beds...And thats it. haha Its pretty awesome, my birthday is on Easter this year, and his is on Mother's day! He's got it good!

Have a good one everyone! Love y'all and wish y'all the best!

~Elder Shain C Wiederholt

303 E High St #3

Kingwood, WV 26537

PS The pictures are of Elder Allred and I being as gangster as it can get in West Virginia. We're doing WVCM standing for West Virginia Charleston Mission and then thats Jeff Freeland with his two kids! Jared and Amy!

just a quick funny

We thought this would be funny, but its based on a true story.

Well, its snowing again

Theres not much to talk about this week. We had a good week of teaching and finding again, so we're definitely being blessed for such. Also transfers are tomorrow, so we're getting a new Elder in the District. His name is Elder Sain, I dont know anything other than that and he's going to be in Oakland, and he used to be a Zone Leader.

Also, We have seen all for seasons over the last 2 days. It was snowing and stormy on sunday, sunny and 70's yesterday with a huge thunderstorm starting at about 5pm, then there was about an inch of snow on the ground today.

My grammer and english are slowly declining. I accidently slipped and said once-t and twice-t yesterday, so we'll see how much farther I can slide. Next will probably be you-ins. I'll explain all this to those who dont know what these words mean at some point.

In the mean time, I highly encourage any members who read this to go onto mormon.org and create a profile. Its a great site. For those who read this that arent members, check the website out. It's got some saweet videos on it. Just sayin :)

Love,

Elder Shain Wiederholt

303 E High St #3

Kingwood, WV 26537

PS, I hope y'all enhoy the picture from conference this last weekend :)

I'm sooo sick of barking dogsI'm sooo sick of barking dogs

I swear, they just cant shut it! Oh my gosh. People here seriously dont know how to train their dogs to just not bark. Is it too much to ask to knock on the door and not hear 30 some odd dogs start barking around the neighborhood.?

Anyway, this has been a good week, although pretty slow. We have been doing a lot of followup work with people that have told us to come back, but we haven't been able to for a couple months. We got a couple of new investigators out of it, and some of them are looking really solid.

Since Kim got baptized last weekend(and engaged the day after) we've been working with a guy named Jeff Freeland, who's an electrician in Baltimore, MD and trying to get his license here in WV, Greg Pifer, who's a guy in a trailer with a ton of cats. Then Don, who's an insurance salesman for roofing and siding and covered in tattoos, but thats ok. Everyone in our Bishopric has facial hair so tattoos is no prob. hahaha His sister is a member up in Pittsburgh. We have a couple others, but those are our most solid people.

Speaking of Pittsburgh, they had tornadoes! So Don's been up there for a couple days doing work and stuff, and we had a HUGE storm here as well. Tornado warnings up the ying-yang! We've also been getting some late snow and cold spells, which we hate. Need to be getting out them short-sleeves here soon!

The pictures I'm sending, one picture is a light saber picture we did just playing around. The other two are some WVU vs Marshall pictures. haha I don't wear that shirt in public around here. We're in Mountaineer country here!

Well, we gotta go shopping and stuff, so I hope everyone has a great week!

Love,

~Elder Shain C Wiederholt

303 E High St #3

Kingwood, WV 26537

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