Another week in Rhinelander

Hello,

 

This week was fun. We had two exchanges this week and it was a ton of fun. Not too much to report about other than my companion got sick. So Sunday we ended up leaving church early because the ward mission leader asked us too. But other than that noting really happened other than the normal knocking doors and teaching people.  Hope you all have a great week 

Love you all,

Elder Robert Pike

Zone Conference, wait my last one :(

Hey Hey Hey,

This week was a weird one. We did a lot of work but not too much results until 2 investigators just showed up to church! Crazy miracle!! Something really cool we had Zone Conference this week and it was really cool I really enjoyed it. We talked a lot about goals and the Plan of Salvation. Which was really cool to better understand some of the principals from the plan of salvation and now to be able to apply what I've learned. I am so excited for the next few weeks. I hope you are doing good, and have a nice week

Love you  all,
Elder Robert Pike

Every week I write to Elder Pike I send him a list of questions.  I usually always ask how the weather is.  Today he said Rhinelander isn't bad, it was really cold this morning  -22.  Oh my goodness glad to be in Las Vegas.

Valentines means slow week

Well I hope you had a good Valentines day, mine was pretty good. We got McDonalds for dinner and the shamrock shake machine was having troubles. So I ended up waiting for about 20 minuets for my shake plus I got it for free and a free large fry too, it was worth the wait.

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Love you all,

Elder Robert Pike

I'm staying!!!!

Hello,

Wow I am staying and so is my companion! Elder Williams and I are staying together, I am going to be the 3rd missionary he sees off on his mission. It has been a crazy week we have found some new people and then they didn't show up to the appointment but that is nothing new. We had Interviews with President Cutler on Thursday, which was awesome. I really like him a lot and I am excited to have one more transfer with him. Oh and he told me something really cool so my mission got extended one week to match up the Spanish, Hmong, and English missionaries and so that week gives me the opportunity to see another Apostle on the 21st of March and then a few days later I will be home. Man this was a weird week. Hope you all have a good one this week.

Love you all,
Elder Robert Pike

What a Birthday!!

Hey, 

 

This week was really cool my birthday was Wednesday and we had some cool miracles happened that day we got in contact with a referral, Kimberlin, and taught her the restoration and extended a baptismal date and she excepted. We had dinner with a non member family that are very spiritual but are looking slowly for a new church they don't think the Catholic church is for them anymore but they are trying to keep their son in catholic school until high school but they are open to hearing what we have to offer. We had an appointment with a family that was referred by some really strong members here and had an awesome lesson with them about where the Book of Mormon came from by using a map to show it. Then it was really cool we Sunday was really cool we followed up with Kimberlin and she had been reading from the Book of Mormon and said she had seen her faith grow. Then we talked with the member who gave us the family as a referral and she had talked with them and they told her that really enjoyed what we had to say and that she really wants to come to church. Thanks for all the birthday wishes I really enjoyed them. I hope you have a good week,

 

Love you

Elder Robert Pike

The Hodag stole the keys!

Hello there, 

This week was an interesting one. We didn't have our truck for a few days so we did a little bit of walking all over. So Monday we had a couple lessons in the morning that went really good. We had the Bishop up here come to those and he was awesome. Tuesday we had district meeting here in Rhinelander and we had a running bet the first person to fall had to buy DQ and Elder Hyer fell so we cashed in after we visited the Hodag. Oh this is the important part I should tell you what a Hodag is, it is a 7 foot long by 30 inches tall beast with large tusks and spikes/ horns all over it, it was spotted by a logger hunting in the woods. And so if you can read the paper about it, it says that the Hodag is accused of stealing peoples keys, like ours. Wednesday we went out and contacted some people and then came home to wait for the assistants to get the keys and then they were going to give us a ride to the truck but they didn't have any room to give us a ride so we then had to, all of Thursday morning and early afternoon try and get a ride to the truck. We finally got it back about 3:30 and then had to drive an hour and a half to a dinner appointment and we barely made it. The sucky part is Elder Williams wan't feeling good afterwords and we went home and he tried to sleep it off but couldn't and the Friday he felt like crap still so we needed to go and get a spare key from Wausau so we did and that took almost all day. Saturday was fun because it was the first day in the week that we had a car and my comp wasn't sick so we went out and worked and were able to talk to some really cool people. Sunday was great, Dave was confirmed and was given the Priesthood, plus I gave a talk on the Atonement and the Sacrament it was a great week even though we didn't have a car for a few days. Well I have to get going I love you and have a great week.

Love you all,

Elder Robert Pike

Well what a week!

Hey,

 

This week was an awesome! One we had bunch of cool things happen and one not so cool thing. This week started off really good we had a good district meeting about goals but unfortunately I don't feel we are living up to our potential there but oh well, it's not my call. Then I went on exchanges with an Elder who has been out a little longer than me. We had fun and were able to get in contact with some people that they haven't seen for a while. Then Thursday was pretty cool we went and did some wood stacking and the drove down to Tomahawk to exchange with the zone leaders and we came up. Then went to a less actives house and had a great lesson and then we talked a lot about his mission and how he desires to come to church but has major migraines and doesn't want to go because of the pain but we are going to keep working with him. Then Friday Elder Arnold and I went and taught Dave and Elder Arnold Interviewed him and he passed and that was awesome we had a great time. We went and did some service for a member in preparation for the Ice fishing  trip. Then Saturday we went ice fishing and had a ton of fun, we didn't catch too many between the 30 of us. They caught about 12 northern pike. We played some football and ate some good food but then as we were leaving I was looking for our keys and they weren't there so we went back out to the ice and looked for an hour or so and had no luck finding them. Which sucks we are in one of the biggest areas in the mission with out the ability to get around for a few days while we wait to get the spare key from Milwaukee. But on the good side again Dave got baptized on Sunday and everything went great and he is excited for this next Sunday to get the Gift of the Holy Ghost. Well I hope you are having a great week.

 

Love you all,

Elder Robert Pike