Monday, September 9, 2013

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!