Well this week has been a crazy week!  We ate dinner with our investigator family on Tuesday and it went great, we got to share a message with them and thought it was going great! We got a call from the wife who is a member and she told us that the husband is feeling over whelmed with all the attention that the ward has been giving him and she doesn't want us to come over till next month..... So that wasn't good! He was our only investigator that was really making progress!

     Our other investigator named Robin asked us not to come back till November because she is really busy so there went another. Then our other investigator that was supposed to be baptized this past Saturday fell off the face of the earth! We haven’t seen or heard from him in almost a month so all three of our main investigators dropped. We have had a great week for finding though! We have found 4 new potential investigators just this week so hopefully we can get some appointments set up with them! 

      We went to Honolulu this past Saturday to hear from Elder Holland and it was awesome! We all got to talk with him for a while and shake his hand! He was so nice and it was awesome to hear him speak! He is a great speaker and we all learned so much from him! He speaks with so much power and authority that you can’t help but listen! 

     This Sunday was crazy as well! We go to sacrament meeting and none of our investigators show up. As we were walking out of the meeting there was a non-member boy, that is 18 who just came to sacrament meeting, we taught him for an hour and twenty minutes and he seemed way interested. It was a miracle that he just decided to come to church all by himself! 

      We have had very interesting and crazy week as you can see but we have seen lots of miracles as well!! We went on exchanges twice this week and for the first I stayed in my area with Elder Kniff, everyone that we planned to go see was home! It was so awesome and the first time that has happened! We were able to talk with a guy named Gordon he is so nice and very open! He has met with missionaries in the past and he told us that he really missed having the missionaries over! Then the second exchange for the week I went to Waialua with a new Elder and that was very hard but I learned a lot! I learned that it is a lot easier to work when you get in and know the area! This new elder just doesn’t know his area that great and he has been here almost 1 transfer. He will be a great missionary he just had no idea what to do...... We were able to do service and see some of their investigators and it turned out to be a great learning experience!

    Hawaii is awesome and I love it here! It is starting to rain a lot more! This means that the rainy season is getting here!!?? But on the good side the weather is still about 75 degrees. Well I love all of you guys and hope to hear from you soon!

Love Elder Gale

Meeting Elder Holland was awesome! 

Learning to blow fire like a native :)

Moco Loco one of my favorite meals!

Zone conference

   

 Hey everyone how has your week been?? Our week has been great!! We had zone conference in Kaneohe with the Kaneohe zone and it was way cool! We had an awesome time meeting with the other zone and getting to know them. All of the new missionaries had the opportunity to give out testimonies and it was really neat to see how many new missionaries where there!! Then all of the old missionaries that are going home soon gave their testimonies as well. 

    We attended a baptism for a girl that is in the singles ward and it was way cool to see how ready she was to be baptized!! She was so excited and her baptism was awesome!! They had so much food after and there was like 15 missionaries there plus her family and there was still tons of food left over!!! Crazy and awesome haha they love their food here!! 

     We are working with a new investigator and he is supper solid!! His wife is a member and he is way open to hear more!! We also had 2 referrals from the visitor center sisters and we were able to visit both of them and one of them turned out to be a 20 year old girl who's 2 friends are leaving on missions soon and she wants to learn more!! It was so awesome to get a solid referral!! 

     One bad thing that happened this week was we went to visit our investigator with a date and he ran from us!!! It really sucked but i guess  he doesn't want to be baptized right now....... Hopefully he will come around! We are pretty sure he will get baptized but we just don't know when, we just need to get him to start following commitments and he will be good!!  So this Saturday we wont have a baptism anymore..... 

    This weekend Jeffery R. Holland is coming to talk to us and it is going to be so cool to hear him in person!! He will be speaking to all the missionaries that are on Oahu..... 

    Well it's been another great week!! And this transfer is flying by so fast!! Only 3 weeks left already!! I am loving it here and everything is going great!! I would love to hear from you all!! Love ya!!

Elder Gale

Baptism at zone conference

Love getting my mail

Hawaii is beautiful

Its going to be a good day

Our Zone

Kalena's baptism

Hey everyone, how has everyone’s week been?  Our week has been pretty good!! We had Kalena's baptism this past Saturday and it went so good!  He was so excited to be baptized!  My companion baptized him and then on Sunday we got to participate in his confirmation.  It was so cool being able to see the whole process of his conversion! 

     So other than the baptism we went to Pearl Harbor again this week to do service so that was fun!! We were on the U.S.S Missouri again and I think that we have now seen the whole ship!  It was way cool to be able to go in places that normal people can’t go. 

    We had service with brother Ortiz again this week and he has this pit bull that is really mean!  My goal is to get it to like me before I leave this area!  We are getting there because usually he won’t even let us near him, but now we have petted him and he is getting better!  The dog’s name is Koa and in Hawaiian it means warrior so he lives up to his name!! For our service we washed windows and then they fed us lunch.

    So we have had a dinner appointment every night this week and sometimes we will be done with dinner and go to our next appointment and they would feed us too "Elders Eat!"  

   We ate at our bishops house last night and they made us mashed potatoes and chicken!  That was the first time that I have eaten mashed potatoes since being here in Hawaii! 

   This week has been really good!  I am loving it here!  It rains almost every day which is really nice cause it cools us down as we are biking through our area. We finally have our bikes up and working and it is so much better than walking. Well thanks so much to all of you.  I love all of you and can’t wait to hear from you all again! 

Elder Gale

Kalena's baptism!

Meet Koa "Hawaiian Warrior"

USS Missouri

Kalena and his family!

Baptism September 7th

It's been another great week.... The weeks are flying by so fast!! We are having great success here in Mililani!! 

     We have a for sure date with Kalena this Saturday at 4:00 pm!!! We have the baptismal program all set and everything is ready!! He is way excited to get baptized! When we did the interview and he passed easy and he wanted one of us to baptize him!! This is my first baptism where I have been here for the whole process and so having him want us to baptize him was awesome!! My companion is going to be the one that baptizes him, I was so close to my first but I will get my chance!! We are so excited for him and can’t wait for Saturday to come!!! 

     For the most part this week we have been getting to know the new elders in our zone and we have 5 new elders.... And one of them is just fresh out of the MTC so we aren't the youngest anymore!!! All of the new elders are pretty cool, but I don't think it can beat our zone from last transfer.... We were all really close and always did stuff together.... This morning we went with Elder Maloata and Elder Parohinog to the beach park for one of their ward activities and all we did was eat. There was so much food and the people just kept telling us to eat!! We had a really good time just being able to hang out with the members.... 

      We have had a great week.... I can’t wait to hear from you all!! I love all of you and hope that everyone is doing great!! Love ya 

Elder Gale

Good day at the beach park with the members!