Transfers.​.. I'm not leaving? you want me to train?

Hey all,


As I arrived to the library today I got this email;

"Elder Pike,

I have felt impressed to call you to train a new missionary. Your example of representing Jesus Christ in your area will have a profound effect upon your companion. Please know how much Heavenly Father loves you and will help you fulfill this important assignment.

As a trainer your responsibilities are to: 1) set an example of faith and obedience, 2) proselyte effectively and baptize consistently, 3) train your companion in all aspects of the work and look after his welfare, and 4) lead your companion through the In-Field Training for New Missionaries program during the first 12 weeks of his mission.

Thank you for helping your new companion feel God’s love and gain confidence that he can serve effectively as a missionary. Please show by your example the importance of obedience and help your companion learn to serve as an outstanding missionary because he loves the Lord. May you seek and receive inspiration from the Holy Ghost to guide you as you serve in this important calling.

Love,

President Cutler"


This came as a great surprise to me so I hope I am up for the challenge for training and I know that the Lord qualifies whom he calls.

So I am stoked for this transfer I love this ward now after conference and to opportunity to apply what was taught. I am so stoked to see the blessings that will come as my companion and I will work hard with the ward to bring forth blessings and miracles. Conference really hit home. I am so stoked for the next 6 months I have left, I will miss my mission but I know of a surety that their is a prophet on the earth today and his name is Thomas S Monson, I know that his councilors Henry B Eyring and Dieter F Uchtdorf are also called of God and inspired men, I know that the members of the Twelve Apostles are prophets, seers, and revelators. I truly know that they have a very special witeness of Jesus Christ and I know we can receive a similar one as we read the scriptures and pray to our Heavenly Father. He will answer. These things I know because I have done so and I encourage you to do also.

I hope that all of you were able to watch conference and to gain from it, and if you didn't I suggest that you take some time to watch and listen to the prophetic call of the men and women who spoke. I love you all and have a great day and week.

Love,

Elder Robert Pike

Another week a week later

Hey,

How are things are going this week was good nothing of too much report. We had some great lessons with members present. We were able to have a good lesson with a guy we found and we were able to give him an baptismal date and to share wit him our testimonies. we hope he will be ready for Dec. 23. love you and hope you have a great week.
Love you all,
Elder Pike​

Another week

Hey,

This was a great week I love the leaders that have been called in this area. This week was Stake Conference it was awesome, I love the general authorities that have called the past two Stake Presidents in Green Bay. This week was a weird one both Elder Wise and I have no idea what to do we have tracted most of Green Bay and aren't teaching too many people so we are a little on the lost side. Then this week we had interviews with President Cutler (inspired leader (we also got to see him 3 days in a row) ) and he gave us some awesome ideas that we can use to help the work progress here. I love him and his wife so much they are such a blessing to all of us here. Then we heard from the Steak leaders and him and his wife. So in the Saturday night session they hounded conversion, the importance of a testimony, and how to do member missionary work. And then on Sunday they continued to explode my mind with things of how we can live and be in harmony with God so we may be exalted in the last days. It was so dope to haer all these things it felt like we started General Conference already, I am so excited for it in 2 weeks and I would suggest, if you can, to watch a session at a church building it is so much different than watching it in your home. I am so excited for the weeks ahead and for the time I still Get to serve the lord. I hope you have a great week!

Love you all,

Elder Robert Pike

What A Week

Wow,

This was an interesting week but it was good. We had a great P-day last week we went to the church after here and played some basketball and volleyball until 6 it was pretty cool. Tuesday we had a zone training and it was pretty good we got a great talk from the leaders from Tod R. Calaster and it was awesome. Then after that we were going out and we were able to hand out some copies of the Book of Mormon. It has been awesome serving here. I truly love it. The people here are pretty open even if they don't want to change. Wednesday wasn't too good we had 2 lessons fall through and a new investigator drop us at the same time. However the evening was way better we got to have dinner with an awesome family. Then the second councilor in the bishopric took us to a less active and had a good interesting lesson and we are probably going to go over and teach their son and help him understand the church. He was baptized and we are just going to help him understand it better because he has autism. Thursday was rough and that's all I have to say about that. Friday was very interesting we had a decent lesson with an investigator, Keath, he had some really good questions and we had the answers to help and we are going over Wednesday and trying to continue to help him understand the gospel. Then we taught this guy with some crazy but logical ideas, he believes you don't need to be married in front of judges or others it is just a relationship you have with a person of the opposite sex, but he is seaming to understand or church so I hope he is going to be coming around soon. Both Saturday and Sunday were rough and that is all I have to say about that. (I know I sound like Forrest Gump) Well I hope that this week turns out better than the last and I hope the same for you.
Love you all,
Elder Robert Pike

Packers may have lost but not all is lost in Green Bay

Hey all,

This week was a really fun one. It was short because we P-day on Tuesday this last week but it was an awesome week. We were able to go out and to do some finding. We were able to find 3 new investigators. I really can't remember what all happened this week but I know that we have been seeing some great blessing here. However, on the other hand it is sad to see how the ward isn't really supporting us even though they have about 10 missionaries out from this ward with 2 young missionaries and 2 senior couples leaving soon. I can't even believe that this is so bad here, I hope back home the missionaries aren't saying the same thing. I have been really praying for them and for this ward. It was really interesting one of the missionaries from this ward wrote a email to the ward and shared an experience about how in her mission they were to have 16 members present for lessons a week, well now her mission president said they aren't living up to their potential and then changed the goal to 60(that's a lot). This really made me think that our goal in our mission for 4 a week is pretty sad:(. However each mission has it's own challenges and I believe that ours has a lot. But who am I to judge I have my own problems that I need to still overcome. I am really excited for this week and I am hoping for some extreme faith building phalanges and for many miracles to happen. I hope you all have a great week.

Love you all,

Elder Robert Pike

​This week was definitely a week!

This is Elder Wise

​This week was definitely a week!

Requirements for a week

1. it lasts seven days

2. It contains 168 hours

3. It happens whether you are alive or not.

4. It has Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

5. The clock revolves 14 times. (if the clock works (and is a twelve hour clock))

6. More days till I have to do this again
7.  It ENDED!!!

So from that, one would think that we had a pretty rough week! But all in all! It was pretty great week!

We had some fun, ate some food, worked out at the gym, had a pool party! Had some really good dates, loved my life, I thought about getting married, I didn't, but I considered IT!!! PSYCH!!!

I didn't do any of that, except eating, and working out (not at the gym), and having fun.

But we stopped someone from breaking the law of chastity yesterday, or we at least delayed it, so that was a blessing, for them.

But great things!

We got to meet some great people!

But I can't remember who they were!

But I love my life!

Some great spiritual experiences! I love you all! I know it's a pretty lame email.

But transfers were last week, and I stayed, and it was great! There are some good things happening this transfer! We hope!

Love you all!

Elder Robert Pike

Transfers and I'm not moving

Hey,

This week was a short one and I don't truly have much to say but that I am staying in Green Bay with Elder Wise. We are going to see a bunch of miracles here. It is sad to see another transfer go bye but I am so excited for the work to progress. We are going to be meeting with our bishop and the ward mission leader this week to she the ward progress the member and missionary correlation. I hope you have a great week and I love you all.     

Elder Robert Pike

Pictures

You may have heard me tell you or someone else that the Packers are God's team.  That is why there is a "G" on the helmet.  When Robert sent me this picture I wrote back to him "Now that is God's team on Lambeau Field!  And a fine looking team it is."

A Fun Fast Week

Hey,

So this was an exciting week we had the privilege of hearing from Elder Martino from the second quorum of the seventy. He was awesome he brought some new ideas that we as missionaries can use to better involve the members here. To start the week we had the opportunity to have a lesson with Amada where we helped her continue in her reading of the Book of Mormon. Then on Wednesday is when we were instructed by Elder Martino. It was awesome we were first trained by President and Sister Cutler where they both talked about our responsibilities and how we can magnify our callings. Then we were pleasured to hear from Sister and Elder Martino, they talked about how much the Cutler's love us and how much they believe that they are extremely inspired. Then he talked about how we can use the Less-Active members in the area to help the work progress. They were awesome they also inspired us to work better with the ward council. I truly loved them and the insight that they shared with us for what we can do to progress the work. I am truly excited for the opportunity to learn from them and now excited to apply what I have learned. That was truly awesome. It is interesting to think of the potential that we have as missionaries to help out the wards here in Wisconsin and then when I go home and apply it where I live. Thursday we were on exchanges, I was with Elder Sanders, we had an inspired lesson with a guy that we had met last Saturday. Brett had read a little from the Book of Mormon and that he didn't really understand it, so we talked a little bit about his life and he was a very interesting person. He has been to jail for drug use but he looks back and says that that was stupid and that he wants to learn more about God and Jesus Christ. So we taught him about, who better to talk about a wayward person than, Alma the younger. We read Mosiah 27, and you could just see that it touched him very deep. He is on parole right now but we hope he is going to continue to learn more. Also on Thursday we had a lesson Amada about the temple and eternal families, she is doing well but we may have a hick-up for the 30th but we hope not. This week has been a great one we had a bunch of fun and a bunch of great lessons and we are excited to look forward to even better weeks ahead, I hope you are having a great day and have an awesome week.

 

Love you all,

Elder Robert Pike

​Here are some pictures from mission tour of some familiar faces Elders Christensen and Potter, I miss them and Iron Mountain a lot​

Another Week Another house

Hello,

This week has been a fun one I truly love it here in Green Bay. This week we have gone out and sought miracles and we have been receiving them from our faith and diligence from the hand of the Lord. This week we went out and tracted quite a bit, and taught a lot. I am so excited for the Green Bay first ward. I am also excited because we were able to have a lesson with an Native American, Russel. Who has been meeting with sister missionaries in North Dakota. In our lesson with him we talked a lot about baptism and he expressed his feelings about it and we asked if he would be baptized on September 20th and he said that he would love to, so we are excited for him. We also had two lessons with Amada that went really good. The first lesson was on tithing, fasting and keeping the Sabbath day holy. It went pretty good. tThe second lesson was an awesome spirit led and filled. Her neighbor sat in on this lesson with us and we read Mosiah 24 with them and the we felt prompted to talk about Christ and his Atonement.  I bore our testimony and the Elder Wise sang I Stand All Amazed and I am so greatfull that the spirit was so strong there. Amada and her friend, Catline, were both watering up and they both felt the spirit, it was awesome we are hoping to continue to teach them and hope that they can both progress towards baptism and towards the temple. We also took out some time this week to prepare for a song we are singing in our mission tour this Wednesday for Elder and Sister Martino. All the missionaries in Green Bay are singing "I Need Thee Every Hour" we sounded good on Saturday hopefully we can pull it off Wednesday. I am so excited for another week of miracles and I know they will come as we work diligently and have the faith that they will happen. I hope you have a great week I will talk to you next week.

 

Love you all,

Elder Robert Pike