I Have Learned a Lot

my new area is pretty great!

Elder Cook is fantastic! he is obedient as what! and is a real help on keeping me focused. he is from colorado So he likes mountains, and he is a track / cross country man so he likes to run! Fernando (my stomach ) is slowly fading away! this way christie wont be able to call me the Himalayas when i get home :) haha so its great!

New Amsterdam is like the town of berbice! it is not terrible big but there are some taller buildings! there are like 4 Big buildings being built right now! but this is guyana so they will probably finish in 2019 haha

But its a pretty cool area! plus its close to canje so things are good! IT was really nice on sunday we went to canje chapel for a self reliance and other ting graduation and the canje members were glad to see me. But what was cool was brother Phagwah called me over and pointed out a lady from new amsterdam and said "i told her she is getting one of the best missionaries in new amsterdam.. So be the best missionary" haha i love brother Phagwah! i am sad i didnt start visiting the family more regular when i was here for so long! they are great! 

But About new amsterdam! we have a cool Branch president , he is a funny and great guy. HE told us recently his temple story, when he and his family got sealed.   and he has now been sealed for over 6-7 years. They have a kid born in the covenant! super cool!!

Any ways i like it here ! people are nice and the area is going fast! The only problem is we are finding really cool people and we have no time to teach them! we already have so many prepared people! it is fantastic!!

WEll This sunday i also got to give a talk! it was a lot of fun! i spoke on attitude! it was great!

I Think i have learned a lot from my mission , im not sure if i have changed from who i used to be. ITs been a slow gradual process! i guess i will have to rely on what my loving mother says when she see's me!  but there are always still changes to make so i will keep working!

But all is well here! i am still working hard! doing my best!

Tell Grandma and Grandpa that i love them!

Thanks momma!

Love Elder Pierson

PS my apartment is good! the land lord is about to make it more good with a new coat of paint!

Oh also it have an Air conditioning that makes life way to cold i set it at 22 and i freeze at night!

Last Transfer

Yes all is very well for me!

i am going to new amsterdam to finish off a missionaries training! so my daughter gets to kill two missionaries for his first two transfers!! haha sad. 

But yeah i am going to miss canje bad!! 

When sunday came around, only two families knew. The bahadurs and the moses, the branch president! so sunday i got to speak and i spoke of the importance of keeping the commandments and also sacrament IT was good. when president moses announced i was getting transfered, like half of the congregation turned around in surprisse! it was kinda funny haha

But i will miss people plenty here

Jamacie is cool! Reminds me of lindsey and christie sometimes!!  kinda cool! the whole bahadur family is just amazing!

I love them all!

and yeah i am finishing a missionaries training! Elder Cook is my new companion! and Elder day is staying with an elder Horsely! so i am no longer a zone leader! :) no more doing reports! yay :) now i gotta focus on training this new one right! :)

Yay twelve week training program!

We havent seen "OJ" back sadly! and he didn't come to church! something must be wrong! we will figure it our tomorrow night!

And oh we recently got in contact with a referral named the "IN" family! and boy are they awesome! a family from new amsterdam gave them to us and ahh they are cool i am sad i don't get to teach them all the way their baptisms!!!

Oh for my homecoming talk you should find out if i can pick my topic! i kinda want to speak on the importance of a cheerful or good attitude! :)

ANd now we no longer work in rosignol! there is elder patatefa going there! ( he is in my group)

so it should be great working around him!!!

ANd she will probably get a new one when he goes and meets them back!!

I am going to a new apartment so i no longer need to worry about prepaid current! but the black outs have still been happening! at least two to three a week!

yay!

But all is well in guyana! no problems for me!

I love Guyana! i never want to leave! so all yall better come here to live cause i need my family ! :)

Love You tons!

Love Elder Pierson

It's August!

Guyana has been freezing cold (28degrees) and then burning hot (36degrees) off and on cause of the rain storms that come!

But all is well haha

This week was a pretty good week! We unfortunately didn't get the baptism in rosignol. we called she and she cancelled just before they went for she interview! :( sad but we will find out why and get her a new date! she even came to church still Sunday in rosignol!

But exciting things that happened in canje this week.. hmmm well Object lessons for the week were cornstarch and water teaching the principle of faith needs works to stay strong and then we had a pepper filled water with the spirit being soap of ya finga  when you go in the water without soap you get dirty, with soap the pepper (sin and temptation) runs away! Try it if ya never have. put liquid soap on your finger and dipp it in pepper water! :)

But we got a referral this week that has been fun to teach. and for the first time in a couple weeks we were able to get someone who is investigating to come to church in canje! :)

Best lesson of the week was with a guy named "OJ"! he was a referral from some of the coolest members. the Khans! but yeah we taught him a couple days ago and he really finally understood what it means to repent and how we need to our whole lives and the role the sacrament plays in that!

It was fantastic!

But lets see we have had many many blackouts this week and it sucked but with the lack of power! we have been

good! no problems Really.

Gotta go!

Love Elder Pierson

Object Lessons

Let me see what wonderful tales i can spin for you today.. 

 

Well i have not seen  " investi- gator " , but i did however see a dead gator on the side of the road! it had its tail cut off and i saw aguy chopping its head with a cutlass! :) 

 

Also another anaconda was caught near our house by the drunk people and they spent the next 30 mins looking for us so they could sell it to us haha i guess thats what happens when you are willing to pay 2 times how much they would usually sell it for  the last time! 

 

But aside from that!  

 

WE had no investigators come in canje but it rained an unreasonable amout on sunday morning!  which was interesting because we had the most attendance of all in berbice with a pretty high 50 

  

we had a few in rosignol i believe. but we have a baptism this Saturday in rosignol ! so hope things will pick up there again. 

 

Transfer is coming close to and end and i am nervous they might move me out of canje cause president told us there is a good chance both zone leaders here will be split and training next transfer... SO i have been here forever! who knows! 

 

We met some really cool new people to teach! we actrually got 12 new investigators! so it is awesome! 

 

We are working hard  and i havent done anything too ridiculous this week... Oh wait kind of have ...  me and elder day have been tying up members with rope as part of an object lesson and playing the flour game on occasional fhe's and playing with corn starch and water with a lot of people to teach about faith and works! it has been great! 

 

IT is a lot of fun in this branch i am excited to bring yall here to show you everyone ! 

 

Love you tons tho!

Love Elder Pierson

Hunting Jaguars

Well even just today has been full of adventure. Last night we were at the bahadurs house and we told them we are going to start running and they didnt believe us so in the morning we ran to their house and got there at like 6:45 haha so sister bahadur gave us some fruit and every kid who tiredly walked out of their room to wake up was startled awake to see us haha. but while we were there we played a game of chinese checkers and while playing i guess siter bahadur called the radio. and here you can wish people well on the radio you just call and deliver you message to the people and they read it! anyways While we were sitting there we heard she had wished well to all her kids and then at the end She also wished a "SPecial goodmorning to the two Best missionaries, Elder Pierson and Elder Day" haha i love that family so much! they are fun as what!

But this week was good!

We also moved ourselves into the new apartment and it is so nice! :)

but this sunday we split Elder day went across the river to rosignol with Bro pooran and i stayed with jared Bahadur and went to canje!

No investigators in canje :( but 4 in rosignol!

This week was a lot of fun!

Highlight for the week was probably finding a brother to a l.a who wants to get baptized.   His name is "NN".    Right now his reasons arent so good, he wants to get baptized because he wants to join pathway! a church program which requires being a member! 

but he is pretty cool So he will gain a testimony

I am Excited for him he is a pretty wonderful Guy so it will be fun to teach him!

Anyways i guess i am overtime ! 

You rock!

Love Elder Pierson

P.s the missionaries in  new amsterdam called me this morning to inform they could not study today because there were people hunting a jaguar on the road in front of their house! :0 awesome!