Merry Christmas

Dear Family and Friends,

This week was a great one we got about 6-8 inches of snow Sunday morning so they canceled church. So today we went and played basketball at the church and that is why I sent you the photo of me in snow. I am excited to help some people this week gain a greater faith in Christ. I am excited for the time I will get to talk with people and help them understand more about the Church. I hope you all have a great Christmas and a Happy New Year!

 

Love you all,

 

Elder Robert Pike

Winter Wonderland

Yolo all,

 

This week has been a good one. We have had a bunch of fun with the Christmas spirit because we got to go caroling and have a ton of fun sharing my faith in Christ with others. This week it probably snowed another 4 inches so we got to do some shoveling this week. Saturday was probably the best day this week. We got to do a lot of service. We helped some people move in and they are ready to listen to the missionaries so we are going to start teaching them. We also had an awesome Christmas party and a bunch of less actives there. They were all excited to be there and to come back to church.

 

Love you all,

 

Elder Robert Pike

 

 

New Week

Dear Family

Well this week has been a good one I got my new companion Elder 'Iongi. He is from Portland OR, He is Tongan and awesome. We have done a lot this week. We had an awesome time this week visiting with a bunch of less actives and had some great spiritual lessons with them. We had a rather funny thing happen to us this week we have had some people let us in and we had some rather interesting discussions about faith and Jesus Christ. One of the people we talked with was a wicken and told us about what she believes and how everything has a spirit that causes us to act and live. She also told us about their prayers they say to worship nature. This was probably the highlight of my week because besides praying to nature she pretty much believes what we believe and she said that she would give reading the Book of Mormon a chance and that she wouldn't mind us coming back. I am loving the craziness that is Sun Prairie. Well everybody have a great week and be safe.

 

Love you all,

Elder Robert Pike

Thanksgiving

Hello,

The past two weeks have been quite some fun and interesting things going on. So my companion got his visa and is getting transferred today so I am getting a new companion today. So the past few days have been spent packing and getting my companion ready so he can go to Brazil. Plus we have been working hard to find new people to teach. We were allowed to go to 3 members houses for Thanksgiving and besides getting stuffed to the brim we had some very spiritual experiences with them. President Monson gave a talk in 2004 about gratefulness and has a cool story about Gordon Green and a Thanksgiving he had many years ago. We have been meeting with a lot of the members here and bringing the spirit of missionary work into their lives. We are seeing some great efforts from the members to work with us. I excited to stay here for longer than one transfer to help the people here grow and becomes strong in faith. I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving  and have a great week.

 

Love you all,

 

Elder Robert Pike

Man of few words!

Hey everyone,

My young man of few words is not sending out a weekly letter this week.  He said he was being lazy and didn't know what to say. His companion got his visa and will be leaving on the 9th of Dec.  So I bet that means he will have a new companion.  He loves the ward he is in and they love the missionaries too.  His ward mission leader is coming out for a class next week.  So I'm hoping I get to meet him and his wife. They already got 3-4 inches of snow today. Yes Elder Pike is still enjoying his mission very much.  He says to tell you that he loves you all and to have a Happy Thanksgiving.

Love you all,
Elder Robert Pike via his mom

Rain and Raking Leaves Makes a Good Combination!

Happy Monday!

So this week has been a exciting one we have done a lot of service this week and had many opportunities to help others this week. So we had this really cool thing happen to us last week at the mall we met Santa and it turns out he is LDS too. He secretly lives in Boise Idaho during the summer and hides in the east town mall in Madison during the holidays. He quoted D&C 193 to us about a man coming from the north dressed in red and white. And then promised us that we would be getting someone to teach in the next 5 weeks as a gift for Christmas. So I am excited for the next few weeks. Also today Elder Bisgler's family emailed him and told him he should be getting is visa here real soon. So I am probably going to be getting a new companion here soon and I am excited. So back to the service we did, Saturday morning we decided to play basketball with the other missionaries in Sun Prairie and some members and had a good time. We went over to a members house to rake leaves and we had planned on it taking only about an hour or two at max but sadly we were mistaken. It took us 5 hours because we had to load them into her car and then she would take them to the dump. On top of all this it was misting the entire time we were doing this so the leaves were sticking all over the place and causing it to take longer. But on the bright side she was talking us up to her neighbors so we may stop by in a week or too and see if they need any service or if they would like to hear our message. Well I have to go and I will talk with you next week.

 

Love you all,

 

Elder Robert Pike

Sun Prairie

Hello all,

Well this week has been pretty fun. Saying goodbye to the great people in Janesville and then getting to meet all the members here in Sun Prairie. It was awesome to meet an investigator/member this week. He got baptized and you could see the spirit just radiate from him after he was baptized and confirmed. I have had a awesome time getting to know the people in Janesville and for the opportunity to serve in Sun Prairie. I am excited for the the work to really progress here. I am also excited for the snow, so you all may know it is snowing today. Well I have a lot of work to go and do, I need to get my companion a Visa to Brazil, we need to find more people to teach, convert them to Jesus Christ. Well I love you all have a great week.

 

Love you all,

Elder Robert Pike