New Companion, New Area, New Responsibilities

so this weeek has been an interesting week! 

 

Let me start with the Good! So "TS" never ceases to amaze! he came to church today even tho it  was another conference all the way over in canje! 1:10 min drive!

but best about him was last time we went to see him we brought a young man named "KB". and "KB" is back and ready to serve. now together they decided to go every day or everyother day after 4 in the evening searching for the less actives and teach them the gospel again so that they can come back into the fold and become strong and righteous! so they know the role that the members play in the preaching of the gospel! 

 

Anyways sad news was that on our way back to do "DL"s interview we recieved a text saying he wanted to push his date back again! so sad! but we are going to keep working with him!

so he wasnt baptised saturday gone like we thought.  

 

Another piece of good news is i will finally get a car!

sad news after one transfer in rose hall i am being moved! I am leaving Rose hall and going to the Canje area to be a Zone Leader. its interesting leaving! i feel like i got to know these people so well but yet i feel like a was barely here! 

 

Now once again good news! Elder Aukusitino is coming to replace me! MY first son in the wilderness is coming home!! :)

Wll rose hall is doing well tho ! 

 

WE recently startyed working with a whole ton of Part member families and they are really cool! i cannot wait to hear of the success that elder christensen and elder aukusitino have! 

 

 But yeah my new companion is Elder Fauchier! 

And yeah its a safe area i am only sad because we got new bikes here saturday gone and now i wont get to use it :( haha

 

 Whooo!  haha i got trained on how to help people gain their self reliance! ie: start their own buisness! so you could say i am now a buisness teacher! 

 

 Oh fun fact i havent been telling about for some reason! (i forgot) we have been teaching a reading class twice a week and people are learning to read by our hands! so its amazing

Ahh so much is hapening! im in a kind of car area and everything is happening so fast!

ITs amazing that all of this is just a speck of a speck to God and to our eternal timeline!

Thats is somthing that has always boggled my mind!

WE had eons and eons of time in the pre earth life to prepare for this one game of like 70-100 years and then we have forever to reap the rewards of how well we played! makes me think of the larry gelwix quote! "no regrets"

ANyways all is going good for me!

 

Anywho i love you a lot

Love Elder Pierson

Raising up Stripling Warriors

So many awesome things have been happening in the priesthood front! 

Highlight would definitly be a man named "TS"! he was branch president from new amsterdam many years ago but after some unfortunate events moved to skeldon and went inactive for 5 years. now i got his number after seeing his name on the membership records and called and he was stoaked to hear from missionaries. he said he needed to get his life back in order! anyways he went to church again sunday gone and recently called us and asked for a branch directory so that he could find people and help them come back! this man is a boss! he has already been to the temple so it is so exciting that he is going back to church now! and changing his life!

AHH its awesome!

we also recently got a branch mission leader here in rose hall!   so we are super excited to work with him more!

Oh and yeah all is good with "DL" he could be baptized this saturday if he is ok about being baptized without his sister. . . she didnt come sunday because she slept in! :( so we were sad about that!

REcently we have been finding a lot of mission age less active young men and woman! we are making a really big push to help them return and go on missions!
 we are currently trying to raise some stripling warriors!! it will yield much success!

we have had many melkezidek priesthood holders coming back into activity!

ITs so important to have the priesthood!

one had a dream that he needed to come back and that this was the only true  church!

Others have been slowly drifting back and others have come back as soon as they heard our voices searching for them!

So much fun out here!

Rose hall is fantastic! this district is full of really fun people!

ITs going to be crazy once missionaries are aloud in this country again!

I love being here!  nothing i would rather be doing!

Thanks for all the love and support!

I love you much!

Love Elder Pierson!

P.s Yes valentines day is really big here. Bigger than in canada! like more than half the people were dressed in red and white!

Felt like canada day! ;)

Lots of Land to Cover

This week has been really good!  

 

So funny thing is that i have two areas and you could say two companions haha. me and Elder Christensen cover rose hall very well, and then every Friday me and Elder Larson go to work in skeldon (almost to Suriname) so its really interesting!  

 

this last week we have been getting given like a million mangoes ! its crazy i have eaten like 4 a day and the pile never seems to die down! :0 its ridiculous! haha but mangoes are delicious . 

 

Anyways yes "DL" is a boss! we actually found out why he missed and it was kinda silly, he woke up at 5 on Sunday and decided that was too early to start getting ready, so he went to sleep for another hour and didn't wake up till it was over! so totally accidentally slept throught it, but we taught the importance of the sacrament and he totally understood the need to move his date back! so he is praying about the 14th but he might find a different date, we are leaving it to him to pick the day! now his sister "EE" wants to get baptized on the same day as he does, but she didn't come to church this Sunday! so she would have to wait till the 21 or later! so maybe "DL" will get to baptize her! 

And yes oh yes the duct tape lives on in the W.I.M.! i was actually there when the car in Guyana broke. we hit a little stump we didn't see, but duct tape fixes everything! 

 

 Everything is really fun! i love guyana! there is so much work going on! 

 

I wish i had more to   tell you! we didnt do anything cool to do this day and we are really trying to find some good people to teach ! we will start to cover more land searching for the elect ! 

 

I have been learning alot since i have been here! the doctrine and covenents is full of fantastic things to study! its awesome!   

 

 Um yeah right now we are trying to get all the ym excited to work towards a mission! that is what the branches in guyana need! return missionaries! 

 

But i gottta go!  

 

Love Elder Pierson

Caribbean Area Conference

But all is going so very well here in Guyana. Sunday Gone was a really interesting Sunday. We actually didn't have a fast Sunday last week because we had a Caribbean Area Conference. Elder Holland And Elder Packer Spoke to the whole Caribbean area It was funny cause they spoke in Spanish for a little bit haha.    it was interesting because in Berbice where we are there is only one chapel out of six that has a satellite dish. so we all Got to meet at that one building for church! it was wonderful! there was plenty people!  

 

DL" and his sister this past week prayed and received an answer that the 7th is they day they are supposed to be baptized. now they didn't make it to church. we are still not sure why. So depending on the answer we might have to move it to the 14th so that they can come the sunday before their baptism . But they are doing wonderful! "DL" actually has received a spiritual witness of the divinity of this work, but when we taught tithing last week he thought it was wrong. but we taught and used a lot of scriptures. and when we went the week coming he said he prayed about it and he knows that the law of tithing is a true commandment! so he is quite a boss! we Are really Excited for him! 

 

And as for reactivating some of the less actives IT is going good. There is a man whose house we went to last night who always seemed like a good guy everything in his house screams Mormon, he had even the 4th article of faith taped to his front door. but when we went by him yesterday he told us he want to come by him for two weeks almost as often as we can to help get him back on his feet and then he will help us reclaim others! and he was really sincere about it, i think he is going to come back! his whole family is really strong members of the church. Things are looking up for us in this area! 

 

We also have been teaching a lot of referrals from members. There are actually a lot of  really  strong members in the church right now! super cool! there is one missionary out from the branch and one almost Gone. but we are working on getting more young men excited for missions and taking them teaching! same with the young woman. It's going to be wonderful!

I really like how people talked about trials. i heard a cool quote in Grenada that said "you cannot climb a smooth mountain" in life we want to get higher always! and trials are like the bumps.

But this week has been really enjoyable. Every Friday we actually go to the branch by Suriname the area is called Skeldon . The loss of missionaries really hurt the areas here. There used to be 3 area's and 3 companionship but they had to leave.   and now we cover the three areas. But there in the two branches in Skeldon used to be an attendance of about 70-80 each and now they collapsed into one branch of about 11 people every sunday! 

I cannot wait till 4 months later when the government changes and they let missionaries into the country again!  

But i love it here!We did actually go Bush waking today cutlass and all walking into the amazon! it was cool!

But i love you much!

 

 Take care!

Love Elder Pierson