Hello All

Hello,

This week was alright we are trying to start some different ideas with out tracking so that we may get some new investigators. But so far just a few lessons but no investigators. We are going to change it this week. We haven't yet had a lesson with too many people but we are hoping to improve this week. We have been praying a ton to find a new investigator but we haven't had too much luck. We were able to meet with Brother Crider and we asked him to ask his girls if they would like to learn the lessons and he said he would ask, but unfortunately he wasn't reading as of Tuesday.  We re-committed him to read at his hotel for work and he said he was going to do some serious prayer and scripture study. Sun Prairie is an awesome area I truly love it here, 1) because the members here are awesome, 2) the people are very friendly and don't tend to slam the door on us, and 3) because I love every thing here specifically my companion and the other missionaries in the area. This has truly been an eye opening area about how the members should be helping the missionaries in the area, and it has shown me who I want to be in my home ward with my family.

 

Love you all,

Elder Robert Pike

 

Just a little snow!

 

 

 

I also forgot we made a pine wood derby car here it is 

 

 

 

 

What a week

Hello hello hello,

 

Well this week wasn't all that fun. We had our most promising investigators, the France family, this week drop us. They are just a little too busy but we were able to find some new potentials though to make up for it. Elder Iongi and I found out a little bit about his visa, his fingerprints are approved and they will be sent to his parents and Brazil this Friday. So we are excited for the progress with his visa. We also have some exciting news the youth are loving the sports day we had. Less people showed up this last week but it was awesome. We had 2 non members there, plus the YM&YW presidents are saying that they want to be more involved in it too.  Plus some of the adults are wanting to start up an activity as well for the adults. We are so grateful for the advice that you gave to us to press forward with it. So we had a weird lesson with a less active this week and he served a mission, his family is very active, and yet he has no testimony of Joseph Smith or of any of the people in the bible. He believes in Jesus Christ and God but isn't sure about the rest. So we are going to work with him by reading the Book of Mormon and teaching his daughters the lessons because they haven't been baptized. We were also able to meet with a less active family that we have been trying to stop by for the past 3 months and they are awesome.  We are completely surprised they live the gospel in every way but they got offended by some other members so they have stopped coming to church. So we are going to do our best to bring them to church over the next few weeks. I am truly having a great time on my mission, hope you all are doing well and have a nice day and week.

Love you all,

Elder Robert Pike

What Birthday????

Hello there 

Wow this week was a ton of fun we had to stay out of the cold Tuesday because of the wind. So unfortunately for my birthday we didn't get to do much but you know what it is probably one of my favorites because not too many knew and I wasn't wanting anyone to make a big deal of it. The members we had dinner with didn't even know. This was good and bad because I got an ear full on Sunday from them but I didn't want them to go out of their way to do anything for me. The rest of this week was great we were able to meet with some of our investigators and we were able to have them really feel the spirit, so that was awesome. We were also able to have some good lessons yesterday thanks to the super bowl and Payton Manning and his horrible performance relating it to Helaman 5:12 and building upon the rock. Christ is able to keep us protected from satin and all that he uses agents us, unlike Denver's O-line. I am truly grateful to be out on a mission and I truly am loving the cold, the snow, the people, and my savior more. 

I hope you all have a great week.

 

Love you all,

Elder Robert Pike

COLD AND SNOW

This up and coming week here in Wisconsin it is supposed to snow and be freezing cold. But what else is new you may ask, well we have kinda gotten 3 new investigators this week. 2 of them are daughters of a less active that we have been working with and the other is the husband of a part-member family. We met with the France family Saturday night and had a good conversation with them. We had dinner with the Rauls family they are all active but Brother Rauls isn't a member, we talked with him about prayer and asked a few questions about him and why he wasn't baptized he gave us his concerns, and we were able to help him out. Now he is considering getting baptized before June so he can baptize his son. Well this week has been a fun one and I am hoping despite the cold this one will be a fun one too. I am really enjoying my Mission and I hope you all have a great week as well. 

Love you all,

Elder Robert Pike

Hey

Hey, how are things going?

 I has been a while since I have heard anything or even given an up date but I figured I should. So in the past 10 months I have had 4 areas and 6 companions (not counting the MTC) I have been from almost the top of my mission and all the way down to the bottom I have had good times and some bad times but all in all it has been fun. So I started my mission in Iron Mountain Michigan(it is in the UP), then I  ended down in Platteville which is the most southwest you can go in our mission, slid over to Janesville where I ended up speaking Spanish, now I am slightly above Madison in a city called Sun Prairie where I am on my second companion who is waiting for a Visa to go to Brazil. This week has been a great one we are just starting to work with some investigators and also we are starting to work with our youth here. We are starting a sports day and trying to get them to invite their friends to come and have fun while we ask the hard questions about the gospel. Last Monday we had a lesson with our investigators, the France family. We were able to teach the Restoration and they agreed with all that we taught.  They understand that they must read the Book of Mormon to gain more knowledge. They are a truly prepared couple they both are having a hard time with their churches and are excited to learn more about another church. They both have really felt the spirit and we are hoping to be able to allow them to be baptized here soon. I have learned a ton so far on my mission and am LOVING the cold Wisconsin Winter. Hope you all have a great week.

Love you all,
Elder Robert Pike

What A Week

Hello

This week has been a crazy one. So it started off last Monday being -22 for a high to today being 42 so the weather needs to make up it's mind. Last week we were advised to stay inside until Wednesday and even then it was only a high of 3. This week we had interviews with our President, it was awesome to talk with him and to be able to find out new ways to progress the work here. We are going to start doing a sports/game days on Saturdays for people to bring their friends to to have fun in a nonthreatening environment. Then we got to have an okay lesson with our newer investigators, the France family. He is a high school teacher and she is from Ecuador. We are going to have a great lesson with them today and we are going to extend a baptismal date for them so pray for us that we may have success. This week is going to be a great one we are going to do a lot of work with the young men. I hope everyone has a great week I love you all.

 

Elder Robert Pike