Rhinelander

Well hello there,

 

This week was pretty good we ended up have a big surprise come up, a friend to a member (Dave Smith) who has been coming to church for the past few months wants to be baptized this Sunday. He is really cool because he has such a strong desire to follow Jesus Christ and his commandments. I am excited for his baptism and for the blessing that he is in my life to teach him. We are truly excited to start this year with the blessing of a baptism and we are going to work hard and have a baptism every month here in Rhinelander even after I leave. I am so excited to keep working hard I truly love Wisconsin and the spirit I have felt since being here serving the Lord.

 

Love you all,

Elder Robert Pike

Christmas, A Baptism and a Transfer

Well Merry Christmas,

This week was and interesting one with Christmas right smack in the middle and the fact that transfers are on New Years Eve it makes life really interesting. Christmas day was so much fun we had breakfast with the Sabourins and then called home and played some apples to apples so much fun. Then we went to the Burdnickis and had some lunch and talked for a while. Then we went over to the Andrus family and played some games and talked a lot and too one of their daughters about her mission, she returned 2 Thursdays ago. All in all a good week because the best gift I got was on Saturday Gabe, the Brown's grandson, got to enter the water of baptism .It was awesome! I am going to miss him. He is so funny. Then we had a little extra time this week and we stopped by a members trying to find out about one of their friends that came with them to church last week and ended up talking with the member for about an hour about how he could help us in the missionary work and other stuff. He is so cool and I wouldn't have even guessed it because he is so quiet compared to his wife. Well as i mentioned transfers I am going to Rhinelander. It is near Wausau I am excited to leave but i would really like to stay but it's the Lords will. I hope you have a good week.

 

Love you,

Elder Robert Pike

 

Dinner appt.

Pictures from one of the dinner visits.

 

I think he converted them too!!!!  :)

 

I'm dreaming of a White Chirstmas just like the ones I've heard about

Hello all,

Merry Christmas all!!! Well for the past two weeks we have been fairly busy we had to do some service last week  Today we helped with a funeral joy oh joy, so that is the reason for the late email this week and the lack of an email last week. But the past two weeks have been good we have been helping Gabe prepare for baptism this Saturday. He is awesome and is going to be baptized Saturday so what a great gift for Christmas the gift of the Holy Ghost. I am so excited for him and their family I love them so much they have truly come a long way. I know I am going to miss them when I leave. I am sorta excited for Christmas I am happy for the day but 3 months and a day from it is when I'll be home and that is kinda sad to think about because I love the people here so much and I know I am going to miss them a ton. But you know what I can and will be a missionary when I go home. I love you and hope you have a Merry Christmas. 

 

Love you all,

Elder Robert Pike

Still in Green Bay!!!

Hey,

This week went pretty well! We started using a survey to get into peoples homes and were able to teach 19 lessons tracting! Gabe is doing so great, he is so excited for his baptism!! It's been fairly warm this week it has stayed around 30 during the day and has been sunny. Today is a little colder and snowing. I was asked 5 times this week how many wives I have haha. We have been using the churches 'He is The Gift' program a lot and it's great!! Just this week we passed out 70 pass along cards for the 'He is The Gift' movie. It's a great none threatening way to get people onto mormon.org and exploring! We hope that we will start getting more investigators through this program!  Find somewhere to share it this week its a great tool!!! Hope everyone has a great week!!!

Love  you all,

Elder Robert Pike

Leaves

Hey all,

This week was sooooooooo long, not a lot of people were home two reasons, this is the week of deer hunting with guns and it was Thanksgiving. So pretty much not a lot of people were home. Hey but on the good side of things we were able to have some success out tracting on Saturday and had a few people say that we could come back so that was nice. This Thanksgiving we did have as many members to visit this year but we did see two members we had a good chicken dinner at one house and at the other we ate just some snacks, but it was great. Then on Friday the ward had a turkey bowl and it was a lot of fun even though only 6 members showed up we also had 6 missionaries, including us, so not the biggest one but it was fun. On Sunday we received some sad news about Amada and we are going to have to move her baptism again her case keeps getting screwed up, and now her lawyer has an conflict of interest, he worked for the cop that is accusing her on false charges, so she could use some extra prayers if you can do that for her that would be awesome. Well we are going to see crazy miracles this week hope you are having a good one too.

 

Love ya

Elder Robert Pike

 

 

 

Green Bay

Hello again,

Sorry I forgot to write last week. I ran out of time before we had a lesson to email all of you but nothing to exciting happened last week any way, except that we got to have a 1-6 week training on last Friday but other than that it was a pretty normal week. This week we went on exchanges, yes I know it is weird the last day of the transfer but none of us were getting transferred and Elder Peterson had a baptismal interview with the Sisters investigator so he had to come down anyway, so we did exchanges. Exchanges were so much fun we had a dinner appointment and then contacted a few people and then Wednesday we went to visit a less active who owns a bakery and got some good doughnuts. It was awesome. Then later on Wednesday night we had correlation and I almost exploded! I did all that I physically could to prevent myself from killing our ward mission leader, need less to say we got taco bell that night. Than we got a 4 referrals from this sister missionary in az and we contacted 3 of them and found that one is not in our ward. We were able to get in contact with all of them and 2 of the said we could come back. It was awesome. One of them has actually met with the missionaries before they were neighbors of the Krehbiel family here in Green Bay and they said that we could bring them over and we could share more with them. Everything is going great here. The Browns are awesome and Amada is doing good. She is coming along just fine we are hoping and praying that her case is dropped so she and Gabe can get baptized after Christmas. I hope you have a great week.

 

 Love ya

 

Elder Robert Pike