I am doing Great! I found out about the transfer and I am staying with Elder Schroeder for another transfer still in the city of Castries. I am excited and happy that I will get to be there for "S" baptism! I think me staying with Elder Schroeder is bringing to pass part of my patriarchal blessing. About me knowing the scriptures well. He knows them so well and is sharing so much information and insight on them! I really enjoy having my blessing just right there to look at and learn from all the time.
I really enjoy my companions and all the missionaries around me! They are sweet! this transfer only one is leaving! Elder Larson. so thats sad. But everything else is staying the same! The sisters are kinda crazy excited about everything(like all sister missionaries) but yeah I enjoy all the missionaries on this island hopefully Elder Larsons replacement is awesome as well! I am sure he will!
Ok so favourite part about this last week.. well my favourite part about last week was the amount of contacting we did! We got to know so many people! It was amazing! There are so many people who are willing to listen to what we have to say. It's truly amazing to see how many people the Lord has prepared and put in our path! I'm excited for this next transfer where I will no longer be training so I will have one more hour in the day for teaching and tracting. That hour was previously used for training! so I'm excited for the transfer!
So this Sunday was a little different. We only had one hour of church. Only the sacrament meeting. President Debouville let everyone go home early to figure their lives out. I don't know if you heard really how bad the storm that passed was. I said it rained a lot but that was an understatement. It rained 260ml in one go and all the locals say it was way worse than hurricane Thomas. The amount of devastation that has occurred has been unreal. There has been no water for the past 4-5 days, and when the pipes would open for an hour or two the water was filthy. So me and Elder Schroeder are really lucky we have a water tank that holds 1000 gallons and a pump that works so we were good to shower and drink water and stuff (all missionaries have a water filter) all the other missionaries went a couple days without showering. So we were lucky. oh and the view fort missionaries are coming up here because that is where the destruction really happened and they have no water still and are struggling to get water. So they get a vacation in Castries for a while. But the people here are really suffering. We have been carrying water to give to people and they have been so thankful, but the storm was a disaster for the island. 3 bridges were washed away, 4 roads were washed out and 7 people have died so far. All from the storm so far. So we are trying to help out. But there are places like Bexon that are covered in 3-4 foot of mud from all the landslides. The Church is sending us 25000 hygiene and supply kits to help out. Hopefully things will get figured out soon. We are doing out best to help! So yeah don't be worried about me but just letting you know whats going on in the island. Oh and this storm hit three other islands. The one that got the worst was St. Vincent. We are going there on Thursday for zone conference. (I get to fly again) but hopefully we can help out there. Oh 24 people have died in St.Vincent so far. It was hit so much worse. But once again do not worry I am doing just fine!
Oh we had an investigator named "O" come with his two kids! He is awesome! :)
Anyways I'm glad I'm here and I get to stay here and I'm working harder that ever now and I'm so excited to see progress on the island. Oh something cool. So St. Lucia had no baptisms for a year or two until two transfers ago and now we have had 5 or six in three transfers! :)
The work is truly hastening! So thank you all for your prayers and I love you.
Love Elder Pierson
