More About Guyana

First off i want to start by telling you about the most prepared person i think i have ever met! his name is "DL".  

"DL" is a strong christian, he was an investigator Elder Jacobson left behind for us! now  "DL" is outrageously intelligent. 

He is a math teacher at a secondary school, and he is going through lots of years  of university so his pay raises. 

but he is great! we see him every other day at 8 at night and he has recently made great strides! he has come to church 3 times now! once before us and twice since! 

he was baptized in another faith so that was a problem at first but he recently pieced it all together that if this church is true then no other church has authority. 

now i was slightly nervous when he pieced that fully together! when we were teaching about baptism he just asked "so in Gods eyes my first baptism didnt count."  

It was quiet for a second because no one wants to tell someone who is serving the Lord to the best of their ability that their baptism didnt count. 

Then elder christensen felt impressed to pull a president Mehr. . . Just asked him what he thinks.    And he responded that his first didnt count and he wants to be baptized in this church! 

he is awesome!!! so is his younger sister! they will both most likely get baptized on the 7th!    anyways thats awesome! 

 

we had a few investigators at church but so many people didnt come because it rained pretty heavy before church, and during the start!

But all was well!  

 

As for group P-days, we had an all Guyana activity today! thats why i am emailing later! 

we went down to georgetown. (i woke up at 4 for this) and played basketball and football! 

 

Also something cool is there was a missionary that came from jamaica, and he would teach with Elder Zeck and Elder Koegler.  he brought some canadian flags for me and denver from those two. he isnt in Guyana but he sent it with another Elder who came to Guyana! there is a picture on dropbox if it all uploads in time.  

 

Today was alot of fun! i really enjoyed it! 

 

And oh yes Monkeys are pretty common pets i think!    Elder Brown Got given a Monkey in Bushlot, but we cant have pets so he gave it to a member over there! 

 

Im not sure if i told you how big my area is, but its big, if you look on google maps and look for port morant on the east end of the country . my are a  goes from about 30-40 kms before that to suriname, and then down to brazil! sooo my area is huge! 

 

The weather here in guyana is pretty similar to the islands, other than there is not as many  cool breezes, i think its average of 30's most every day! 

 

Baptisms actually we have a little movable tub thing here. the ocean is really dirty here, so if you do a baptism in the ocean you will wade out in mud up to your knees till you reach water, and then its really dirty water.. 

 

some people are baptized in trenches.. Google Guyanese trenches.. haha 

 

everything is really Fun here! the work is fast!

It is sad to hear about Sister Lowry. ITs amazing however to hear of the faith of her family! i take great joy and great satisfaction in the knowledge we have of  Gods Plan and for the power to bind on earth and in heaven! its really makes things much easier to bear! I am amazed every time when i hear of such faith! 

But i love you so much! 

I know the Gospel is true and i will continue to serve The Lord Faithfully out here! 

 

Love you much!

Love Elder Pierson

Elder Bingham and Elder Pierson in Grenada

Elder Pierson's Shoes

He was so excited to see this monkey.

Transfers to Guyana

We were at Hog Island This morning! 

it was a really wonderful P-Day activity! 

i really love liming at the beach whenever i get an opportunity to.. we are definitly Going to hog island When we come to see Grenada! 

 

but as for the Beaches i will no longer be able to Adore them. 

They dont have any beaches in Guyana 

So i guess ill have to Lime by the Stinky Rum Factory in Berbice. 

So yeah i am gettting moved to an area called Rose hall in Berbice Guyana. 

i leave early wednesday morning 6 am and get to Guyana at 2:30 carribean standard time (really most likely 4 or 5 haha) but yeah i am going to be sad to leave here! 

 

i was thinking its going to be unfortunate to leave such wonderful people and alot who were preparing for baptism! we have one planned for saturday coming! 

But i will wait for a picture from Elder Padilla. 

 

My new Companion is an Elder from wyoming named Elder Christianson. all i really know about him so far is that he is from the french side, just finished being a zone leader and he can Curl 200 pounds, oh and can bench 500 :0  

so we will be in guyana together and president said he will show me how to be District leader. so i am excited to work with him. 

 

Elder LEany told me that after the ap's came to visit and elder ferrin came with us he came back to get dropped off by the zone leader he told elder leany "Elder Pierson is a great missionary" 

i really enjoy Elder Ferrins company! 

 

But all was well this week!,  

Coolest experiance actually happened not to long ago. we went to teach this one lady we taught once when we contacted her.. 

oh a little background. we have been working on whats called a contract lesson, where you find out there concern and then commit them to baptism is through this gospel their concern is cured.. but we found her concern last time and it was "i Am really just looking for the right church for me to join."  

we taught her the Gospel and left a restoration tract when we first visited. When we came back she had read the restoration tract with her boyfriend and she prayed about it.  

She told us of a vision where she kept trying to leave church to go to a party and she couldnt find her way to the party. but the church kept being there. 

Her old path was suddenly Gone. 

But she woke up and talked with her boyfriend and when we talked with her she had come to the conclusion that the dream was from God to tell her this church is the true church! and she wants to join it. So she will start coming to church this sunday coming and get baptized once she gets married! Anyways that was most likely the Highlight! 

 

OH And if you remember  ME talking about Elder Jacobson.. The Friendly Giant. He is Elder Padilla's mother! o they are going to work miracles  here! 

 

Anyways i am happy all is well! Love you much! 

 

Denver is serving in trinidad! (Elder Ferrin Told me ) Shh ;) haha

anyways Love you 

 

Elder Pierson

Turtle Sanctuary and Q

Easter is an interesting holiday. And really here in the Caribbean no matter what the holiday, it is celebrated the same way. Drinking partying and all manner of iniquity. buuuuttt there are lots of people who celebrate it by going to church and singing and things. But yeah holidays every single store closes. the only open store was a Chinese food restaurant. Oh and also all the buses stop running... so I had to walk up and down so many mountains the last couple days! haha but hey that's alright. Oh funny thing about walking up mountains is that my legs are definitely getting bigger. The pants I got from Mr Macs are now like skin tight on my thighs when i sit down.  

 

Over this Easter season we have gotten fed so much, we actually got fed 2-3 times a day 3 days in a row so that was amazing! But we do get fed, actually twice every Sunday! At one house I found out a new favourite fruit of mine. well actually I have a couple. I fell in love with tamarind back in St. Lucia but here one member has a plum tree in her back yard. They are delicious! anyways I guess we are heading into "Mango Season" which is almost every missionaries favourite season, all the mango's are ripening and people cant eat/sell them fast enough, so missionaries get given mango's a lot! so yeah we get a lot of fruit. 

 

This week was a really good week! we had so much success we have an investigator who is preparing for baptism this weekend. Her name is "Q" and she is 18. You could basically say the was a "dry mormon" before Elder Regis met her. She is living everything and loves to read and learn. She actually had an uncle or something who was a member I think. Well anyways her baptismal date was relying on whether or not she showed up for church. And when we called her in the morning her phone was off. and she wasn't responding. So we were really nervous. Then we are at church and she still isn't there. Finally sacrament starts, and still no "Q". so we were pretty sad. Only to find out that after sacrament was over a group of like 13 people flooded in from outside the doors. "Q" being one of them. Kinda makes me think of something dad would say sometimes when we were driving. "I'm sure God has a Sense of humour because every time I'm in a hurry and I'm praying for a green light, it always just stays green long enough so that I can make it through." But she enjoyed church and is excited for her baptism. We also had a lot of investigators come to church, just late. Like 3 of "K's" friends. on a trade off me and Elder Jacobson (Yes the very same from St.Lucia) were teaching "K" when 3 of her friends came up and sat in on the lesson. we talked a bit about her baptism and they all wanted to be baptized and they all came to church. We just really need a chance to visit with the Mom so we can get her involved also. 

 

It has been a really good week. 

And to top of a good week we did something really fun for P-day today, we travelled by boat to an Island called Bequia (one of the Grenadines) and we got to go to a turtle sanctuary. where you can hold all the turtles and things, so that was really fun the Island as a whole was really cool.

Anyways I am so excited for James and Kieran! That is so cool! They are going to be great missionaries! Michael and James are going to have so much fun in the same mission.. ..

Maybe they will serve close to each other! Ah and Kieran gets to speak spanish! sounds fun!

Oh so random thought came while thinking of Kieran's call. Tell him I'm jealous that he will be getting a drying machine so he doesn't have to hang all of his clothes haha 

 

But yes lessons are going well! I am having fun with Elder Regis and I am getting to know my area so I can lead it next transfer!

Anyways I hope you have a great week! I love you! 

Love Elder Pierson