June 10th, 2013

Dear Family and Friends,

So this week was pretty good we had a bunch of appointments fall through on us but the appointments we had were great. Tuesday was probably my busiest day so far on my mission we had an appointment at 9 in the morning, then we went to a less actives house and we watched the testaments video, then we had dinner with our branch president and correlated with him, then we went to another less active members house and read out of the scriptures with him and left a spiritual message and went really good, then right after that we had an appointment with an investigator Steven, who is going through dialysis, he is a really nice guy but we have to work with him one small step at a time because he is set on being Greek Orthodox but he is reading out of the Book of Mormon. Then we had a Zone Training on Wednesday but after words it got us really thinking that we really need to focus on working with the branch and getting them to function properly and so we are kind of stopping the strict, serious missionary work and work on the members and help them fill their callings. I am really excited to tell you all that I get to meet Dallin H Oaks and 5 members of the quorum of the 70, we get to have an all mission conference on Saturday where we get to meet them and possibly ask them questions. So I got a letter from Brother Herdt two weeks ago and he had something in there I really liked. He said something on the lines of, "Dear Elder Robert Pike, You are like the angel from 1 Nephi chapter 8. Your job is to help people out of the darkness and bring them to a tree who's fruit is most desirable above all other fruit." So any missionary or member can place their name where mine is and apply it to their life. I hope you all have a good week.

Elder Robert Pike