Week #67 -- Moldy Donuts, Rocket Launch and Tornadoes

Hello Everybody!!!

Hope you y'all had a great week and was filled with blessings from the lord.

This past week was a little crazy. Got to do a lot of service this week with some members. Helped Brother Jenkins put his Solar Panels back up. Anything with Brother Jenkins is always a "BLAST". Hahaha.  Lots of laughter.

Finally got to see a great lady this past week that we've been missing. She is doing well and has been stressed out a lot with moving. She finally found a house and starting to pack. We will be going over this week to help her pack. I love her so much. I'm going to be very sad to see her leave.

Other than that the teaching this week was a little slow than we thought it would be. Spent a lot of time knocking on doors with no one opening them. Eventually one will open.

A couple cool stories from this past week was I ate some moldy donuts. We were at Habitat for Humanity and after we are done they always have snacks in the break room for everyone to have and I saw some donuts that they had there so I had grab some and we left. As we are driving back I eat the first one and kinda a weird taste to them. But I ignored it and kept eating them. I get through half of the bag and then look and see mold!!! I about freaked out. The sad part is I had no were to spit the one I had in my mouth out. The worst part is I got sick from it the next day.

There was also a rocket launch this past week. We didn't know this until like an hour before it was gonna launch. The best part it was at night time and I haven't seen one at night yet. Plus it would Elder Amiott's first one the only problem is we had a lessons right after that so we didn't get to see it but got to see a video by the one and only Elder Thayne down in Cocoa.

Then the most recent fun news was last night. Last night we got a tornado warning ⚠️!!!!! It got pretty crazy last night with the wind rain and of course lightning and thunder!! The lightning and thunder didn't get to bad so it didn't keep me up to late last night which is good.

I would like to share with you and talk that I found a couple days ago about change. It has definitely given me a better look about how I can improve to gain eternal glory. There is given 4 simple steps to change.

1. Ask for Direction:  We sometimes forget, when making plans to improve, to check in with the ONE who has made the Plan. There are many spots in the scriptures where it tells us that "He will direct our paths" only if we will ask him in faith.

2. Think Small: We need to start with the small things. We sometime want to make these big changes and a lot of times we will fail. Smaller adjustments over time can bring greater balance and peace to our lives. If a person wants to get more fit, they can't just got one time and be magically ripped. (If it was that way it would be awesome!! Cause I need it!! Haha) But if this life was like that then we wouldn't be able to progress nor learn.

3. Time to Reflect: Regular self-checking ensures we’re making progress (and give us a chance to make adjustments when we’re not). Simply asking, “How am I doing so far?” goes a long way.
Sacrament is the perfect time to reflect and recommit to making those spiritual goals that we want to reach.

4. Keep Trying: “One of God’s greatest gifts,” President Monson said, “is the joy of trying again, for no failure ever need be final.” Don’t let discouragement get the best of you when you fail at first (or second or third). Nobody is perfect and our Heavenly Father doesn't expect us to reach that in this life. He does expect us to try and keep trying everyday. That's what the Atonement of Jesus Christ is for. It is there for us to be able to change.

I want to bear you all my testimony of my savior Jesus Christ. I know that he came to this earth to help us. To give us the tools to help us change. All we have to do is use it.

I love this gospel. I know that the Book of Mormon is true and that Joseph Smith is a prophet of God. I am so grateful to be a messenger of the good news.

Loves!!!

Elder Pearson
Florida Orlando Mission
10502 Satellite Blvd.
Orlando, FL 32837

Week #66 -- Miracles and Daytona Speedway!!

Hello Everybody!!!

Hope everyone had a good week!! A lot of amazing this happened this past week.

To start of, I get to STAY in NSB with.......Elder......Amiott!!!! I am so happy that i get to stay with Elder Amiott for another 6 weeks. He is so awesome and gonna make some awesome things happen with the help of the Lord.

The beginning of the week was pretty good. I haven't mentioned that we do service every Tuesday at a place called Habitat for Humanity. It's really fun and get to talk to a lot of people. Enjoy the time that we get to spend there plus I have been able to invest in a couple Beach Shirts which are super cool.

Also a couple weeks ago Elder Amiott and I got to go to Daytona International Speedway.  It's was so awesome.  Was so worth it.  The entire tour was about an hour and a half but they took us pretty much all over the place. They took literally on the track and got to stand at the finish line. Sadly I forgot my sharpie so I was able to sign the finish line. We also got to see Victory lane and got pics there too. It was super awesome.

On Thursday, I got to go on exchanges with Elder Haderlie and we stayed in NSB.  It such an awesome day. Saw a lot of miracles that day.  One really cool thing that happened is we got to meet a neat lady. We didn't plan to stop by her home but felt like we needed to so we did. Right as we got there she pulled up. We then had a awesome lesson with her about the restoration. She was very excited about reading the Book of Mormon.  We are planning on seeing her and the rest of the family this week.

Well hope you all have a great week.  Loves!!!

Elder Pearson
Florida Orlando Mission
10502 Satellite Blvd.
Orlando, FL 32837

Week #65 -- It's 2017!!!

Hello Everybody!!!

Sorry I didn't send one last week. We got to take a Tour of the Daytona International speedway!! It was super cool I'll send pics.

Hope you all had a wonderful time lighting fireworks and staying up till midnight!! The first four paragraphs are from two weeks ago of what happened and the rest is what happened last week

I have had a lot of time to be able to reflect on the past year as being a missionary and thinking about the amazing experiences I have had. Sadly it's coming to a close very soon which has given me more urgency to make sure I'm doing all the things that the lord needs me to do.

This past week we have just seen many miracles. A lot of them happen cause Elder Amiott and I have really trying to be guided by the spirit. Through out this week we have both had promptings from the spirit to stop my certain people and we were then able to see them and have an awesome spiritual experience with them. For example, one of them became a new investigator which is awesome.

I also got to go on exchanges this past week with my wonderful District Leader, Elder Hummer, in Deltona.  He is a Spanish speaking missionary and it brought a lot of memories from when I was with Elder Isaacson in Apopka. Those were some fun times!  We had a wonderful day and got to see a lot of people. A lot of the lesson were in Spanish but to my surprise I was able to understand a lot more than I did with Elder Isaacson. I can only assume that it was the Lord helping me in those lesson and being able to know what to share and Elder Hummer translated. It was awesome.

A really coo experience this week was with our wonderful investigator. I absolutely love her. She is so awesome. She is a Florida native and really loves the Lord. We planed to met with her this Wednesday with Brother and Sister Griffitts, but our investigator invited us both over for lunch yesterday after church. We then got to have a wonderful lesson with her about baptism. She has been having a hard time understanding the Book of Mormon and has been praying to know if it's true every time she reads it, but hasn't gotten an answer. Brother Griffitts was able to bare a strong testimony about the Book of Mormon and assured her that she will get her answer. Elder Amiott and I were then impressed to commit her to an baptismal date. She ACCEPTED!! We have made a goal for her to be baptized on Feb 4th!! I'm so excited and happy for her.

Got to see a lot of really cool miracles. Got to Take the young man from the ward with us a couple times and he is just awesome. He really is enjoying come out with us and he is preparing for a mission!!! I'm so excited for him. He also bore his testimony yesterday and I am so grateful to be apart of his life and see the transformation in him.

Also got to go on another exchange with our wonderful ZLs. I got to go with Elder Goff in Daytona and Elder Dummer stayed with Elder Amiott in NSB. We had a wonderful time see the people that are working with. It such an awesome feeling going from appointment to appointment. Really enjoyed my time in Daytona.

There are some new investigators that we are slowly getting which is always exciting. Don't have too much to talk about them cause it was quick visits and really didn't get to much into detail with them. But we do have a return appointment later this week which is exciting.

I hope you all have had a wonderful week!! Loves!!

Elder Pearson
Florida Orlando Mission
10502 Satellite Blvd.
Orlando, FL 32837

Week #64 -- Merry Christmas!!!!!!

Hello Everybody!!!

Hope you all had a very Merry Christmas and got to spend time with family and friends!!

First off I had a wonderful time seeing the beautiful faces of my family!!! It was so good to see them and hear there wonderful voices!! I love you family!!!!

This past week was a little difficult cause of the holidays so some people we didn't get to see. But we had some really cool experiences. On Wednesday we got to take one of the young men from the ward out with us. He's been thinking about going on a mission so we wanted him to get a taste of missionary work. He did so amazing!! We went to go see a family that we haven't been able to get in touch with so we were going to just drop by. We only got to talk with the father of the family and he wasn't a member and then Ben asked him if he would like to take the lessons from the missionaries to learn more about Jesus Christ. It was awesome even though he said no cause Ben was able to testify to him how he's been getting back into church and he has seen nothing but blessings. Amazing!!

At church we had such a wonderful service. Had a lot of musical numbers that members of the ward did and brought the spirit in so much!!! Then got to eat a lot of food with the wonderful members in the ward!!

For my spiritual thought I just want to share my love I have for the Savior and the wonderful gospel he has given to me and everyone else on this planet. I am so blessed to be able to be here in Florida as a missionary to share this gospel with others and help them know of the love that their Savior has for them. I know that Jesus Christ lives and will come again. Let him in and he will make everything better!!

I love you all!!! You are in my thoughts and prayers!!

Elder Pearson
Florida Orlando Mission
10502 Satellite Blvd.
Orlando, FL 32837

Week #63 -- 7 Days Till Christmas!!!

Hello Everybody!!

The week just flew by!! I apologize but this email will be a little short. This past week was a little slow but some great and sad things happened.

I guess I'll start with the sad news. Our wonderful friend and investigator, who we have been teaching, has sold her house and will be moving!! It won't be till February that she is gone so we still have time to meet her and get her close to baptism or get her baptized before she leaves. She is just a sweet lady and love our times meeting her. She is just a whoot!

Good news is we got to meet with an investigating family. They are up and down with how they are progressing. They are good some weeks and others not so good. We love them and have the faith that they will get to baptism. We also got to see another investigator. Lessons with him have to a specific plan and make sure we don't steer away from that plan unless the spirit is telling us too. If we don't then we will be there longer than we need to be. He is a really awesome guy and has sincere desire to follow Christ. He hasn't been reading the Book of Mormon so we think that's why he hasn't gotten an answer so we had a really good lesson about the Book of Mormon and he's committed to read it.

Still seeing the boys who were recently baptized and they are just amazing!! I love those boys. They are so amazing and just open my eyes more to how children are more sensitive to the spirit more than us older people are. They always are so excited when we come over and teach them more about Christ. We are planing to take them on a temple trip soon so that will be awesome.

I would like to bear you my testimony that I know that our savior, Jesus Christ, lives and died for all of us. I know that Joseph Smith was a prophet in these latter days to restore the priesthood here on the earth, which was lost. I know that the Book of Mormon is true. That the promise that is given to us from the Book of Mormon that if we read, ponder, and ask in faith that we will know if the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon.

I love you all and know that the our Heavenly Father knows you and cares about you. Talk to him. He wants to hear from you.

Elder Pearson
Florida Orlando Mission
10502 Satellite Blvd.
Orlando, FL 32837

Week #62 -- Ice Skating, Car Shows, and Miracles!!

Hello Everybody!!

Let's just say this week was awesome! Last Monday, our Zone got to go ice skating!! It was so much fun plus I didn't fall on my butt so I can say it was a success! This was my first time ice skating so thought it wouldn't be too hard since I know how to roller blade but to me it isn't the same. It took me a while to feel comfortable and feel like I wasn't going to fall on my butt. One also cool thing is that we got to stop and see a car show that was down the street from our house!! It was super cool. I remember the times that Graham Richards was with me and got to talk to a lot of cool people at those car shows. A lot of super cool cars. 

Anyway, there was a pretty cool miracle that happened on Saturday. Usually the night times are hard to get into people homes but that Saturday we were getting into everyone's home that he had planed to see. It was awesome. We then were going to see a less-active family and had a former investigator pop in my head and thought we should go see him. I thought to myself we will go see this family then we will stop by and see him. I then had the impression to just go see him instead of the family but I really wanted to get into this families home; so we went to see then family first then see him. Well we got there and they weren't home. I then knew that the lord was telling me something. We got back in the car and head for his house. Once we got there and knocked on the door he said, "Hello Elders, I was just thinking about you and was gonna call you to come over".  What are the odds?? We then had a wonderful talk with him and shared our testimonies with him of the savior and the restoration of the gospel. 

At church, in Sunday school class we were talking about the gifts of the spirit. We talked about the gifts that our Heavenly Father has given us and that we need to seek out and figure out what gifts our Heavenly Father has given us and then share them with others. As we share those gifts with others, our Heavenly Father will be able to touch other people's lives through us and can feel of the love that our Heavenly Father has for them. 

Sunday night the ward here had a Christmas Music Celebration. It was an awesome time for not only the members of the ward but also for people in the community that aren't of our faith to join us in songs of our savior, Jesus Christ. The spirit was super strong and I loved the music that was played by so many talented people in the ward. 

I am so grateful for the many blessing and gifts that my Heavenly Father has given me. I love this gospel and the teachings and knowledge it has given me. It has helped me to know that if I'm struggling or need help with questions I can go to my Heavenly Father and he will help me and answer my questions. 

I love you all have a great week!!! 

Elder Pearson

Florida Orlando Mission

10502 Satellite Blvd.

Orlando, FL 32837

Week #61 -- Biking Pics

Hello Everyone,

Here are some pictures from our biking this week...

Got to go to Ritters. Really good ice cream!! 

Elder Pearson

Florida Orlando Mission

10502 Satellite Blvd.

Orlando, FL 32837