Running My Shoes to the Ground

There was two baptisms saturday gone! one in the rose hall area and one in new amsterdam! go zone! just now we will have one!

for "ZR" it really kind of brakes my heart. she is doing good but he changed from binge drinking every two weeks to drinking light every two or three days.. :( he will take some time to overcome and put priorities straight! but i am really hoping they succeed with the marriage papers. because once they are married she can get baptized. and he will come with time!

but this week we actually did not go to church. in canje branch anyways. since there is a shortage of missionaries there is none in an area called rosignol. now me and elder day have been working it once a week to keep it going . and the members are fantastic! we showed up to church and they were ecstatic to see us and greeted us with the news that they have 3 people who want to be baptized who came to church. and they came seeking advice or permission to do all the teaching themselves and have us come and do an overview to make sure they understand! so no investigators came in canje but we had 3 in rosignol

So we are seeing good work all around the board!

Im running my shoes to the ground haha but i still have an inch or so on my ecco's :)

its fun!

dont send more!

We get to meet our mission president soon! in person! i am excited!

Anyways i gotta go!

Love Elder Pierson

Crazy Week

This week has been sooo crazy! we have been able to get little to no work done in our area.. well at least i was. 

 i think i taught a grand total of 3 or 4 lessons in my area this week! :0  

crazy stuff happened and a missionary had to be sent to trinidad. and since we are the zone leaders and have a car we had to drive him down to georgetown at 6:30 or 7 in the evening so he could catch a flight in the morning! now its a 1 1/2 hour or 2 hour drive  (depending on if you drive the speed limit. so we got back home by about 10:30 in the night. anyways all the crazyness happened on our workdays (we were splitting days between canje and new amsterdam area) but now that we were another missionary short we fixed the missing temp problem so now we are finally back to work in our area! 

The reason i lost so much time in my area was also because I went so skeldon on saturday and then drove from rose hall again there on sunday to attend church. 

so when i got to church i got to give an impromptu talk. so i decided to speak on scripture study and i thought it was good. it was a lot of fun!!  

But im excited all the crazyness has slowed down. im exhausted haha. but its all good!

This week has been crazy but i would say from it i learned very strongly that God Does answer prayers! and Grants unto us our Righteous Desires!

oh i also went cast net fishing this week haha it was fun!and sorry i forgot my camera so i will do the photos next week!! :) Sorry!

Anyways i love you a lot!

Elder Pierson 

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