This week has been pretty cool. short week but one full of miracles and great events.
As you know me and Elder Leany have set some really high goals and expectations of ourselves. we want to see the group grow even to the point of doubling and turning into a branch. we talked a lot on how we can do that. and the answer we came up with was to find families who are prepared for baptism. now that is easier said than done haha. but we have been really looking for them. On wednesday we decided to do a 12 hour fast for the purpose of finding a family that will get baptised. Now, We have from that point on been finding a lot of families. some arent really as prepared as others, and some there are only a few of the family who will be progressive, but the amount of groups we are teaching has risen drastically.
Also we have been working with all the part member families in the area. There have been lots of referrals given from the members and we are trying to get in touch with them so we can teach.
Things are going great in grenada, i love it!
I am learning Plenty here, one thing i never really gave much thought to while i was at home was the fact that we have the Book of Mormon. in my mind i thought it was just normal, like everyone had or knew about the book. But the more i explain to people what it is the more i think how amazing it is that God has revealed this book to the world, and that it is th evidence or proof of every single thing we say. i think that is really what helps missionary work move along is that book. Recently it has been given as a focus to the mission and many blessing have been promised as we use it in contacting teaching and all other aspects in the mission.
People have some really mixed up conceptions of the Book of Mormon and its great to help them understand it.
This Sunday was pretty alright, its really hard to get people to come to church tho, we had no investigators there this Sunday even tho we committed so many people to come, but yes im glad you saw the picture of the sign, we actually put that up this Sunday, me and Elder Leany are working to bring the church out of obscurity. even just that Sunday we had plenty people studying the sign wondering what it was. so its good!
But Funny thing was this week a really drunk kinda old ish lady kissed me hand and told me i look like a girl haha, we met her daughter (who is a really good investigator) and her mom came up while we were talking to her and invited us into her home to teach, so we hope we can help this lady out of the destructive life of alcoholism. Other than People usually say that i look like a movie star. not to sure which one, back in st Vincent i look like a guy in dawn of the planet of the apes. i think its my hair, when i grow it out i get people guessing im 26 and a movie star, when i cut it short they guess 16 and some think i am a girl ... so im gonna keep it longer :)
Oh and the hike was really great, we were actually carrying cocoa trees up into the mountain to one of the st george members farm. he is planting cocoa becuase it is a cash crop and he is trying to make some money so when his kids get older they can go on missions, so i was more than happy to help. plus while we were walking down i was with elder ramdhanie and roger and we saw a good looking cocoa pod on a tree and so roger climbed it and we ate some delicious cocoa.
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| Elder Pierson eating a cocoa pod |
but it didnt taste like chocolate, i guess you get that taste when you dry pit the seed and crush those, but it tastes really good. Oh by the way when i get home i am going to build a big green house so i can plant all these trees and plants :) but we usually try to do a zone service project on the island once a week. so its really good.
Anyways! i hope you have a great week, Love you all so much!
Love Elder Pierson
