Greetings from Pennsylvania, and welcome!

More unsolicited advice about fingerpicking on guitar: BlueJay's right; have a luthier or knowledgable guitar-shopkeeper check the action on your guitar (distance from strings to fretboard) and adjust it as necessary for your comfort and your playing style. You may also want to consider a lighter-weight string than you are using, at least until your fingers become accustomed to picking (especially if you are using bare fingers rather than plastic or metal fingerpicks). Don't forget to change your strings occasionally; a "dead" string requires more fingerpicking pressure to make it vibrate, whereas a nice, new, supple string will vibrate more easily and also give you a better sound quality when it is struck.

Enjoy fingerpicking, and enjoy the Mudcat!!!