Aloha,

    This week has been another great week. Kind of a slow week but still great. We had a lesson with our investigator that fell through. She was unable to meet with us and she wasn't able to come to church........ We have a lesson set with her for this Tuesday so it should be great. She is still looking forward to being baptized! She told us that she wants to get the lessons done and be baptized as soon as possible!

     We had a less active lady that came to church for the first time in a while and it was awesome! She brought her daughter and grandchildren and they loved it! She has an 8 year old granddaughter who will be baptized this November..... It is so awesome to watch our ward show how much they loved having her back and how much they missed her!

    As for the rest of the week we had a couple other lessons with less active members and they went awesome! Our Elders Quorum President gave us some people he wanted us to visit, we contacted one of the families and we were able to share a message with them and they were so nice! They said that we can have home teachers sent to their home!

     My new companion and I have been working great together and we have been seeing so many miracles! The members in our ward are so good to help us and point us to the people who are open to hear the gospel! Recently our Bishop has challenged a lot of the members in our ward to do more missionary work as families and invite less active or non member families or friends to dinner. We have had so many members that have told us that they have started their own missionary work and want us to come to their homes the next time they have them over! It is such a big help to have members that will work with us!

       I can't believe that October is almost over already! The time is flying by so fast! And I am loving it here! The weather hasn't changed much. It is so weird not being cold in the middle of October!!

     Well I can't wait to hear from you all really soon!! Thank you so much for all the love and support you have all given me!! Have a great week!!

Love Elder Gale

Loving life in Hawaii...

We now have 2 working bikes!

Aloha, 

     This week has been a very slow week for work. We had lots of appointments cancel but it was still a pretty good week. We had a chance to visit one of our potential investigators and share a scripture with him and he loved it. We are still working with Kawai a new investigator and she is way awesome!! This Sunday was so awesome!! One of our recent converts gave a talk in sacrament meeting and he did awesome!! You would never know that he was baptized just over 3 months ago!! His testimony is so strong and his talk was great!! He was the last speaker and normally it is hard for the whole audience to sit and pay attention to the last speaker, but the spirit was so strong during his talk that it was so quiet and everyone was listening and he spoke for 15 minutes! It was so cool for us to see him share his thoughts and testimony! We had mission tour this week and 230 missionaries out of 250 all got together and listend to Elder Switzer of the 70 speak to us. It was so cool to see most of the mission together at once and to listen to the talk.

      Today for p-day we went on a hike and it was way cool!! We could see Waimea bay and there was a big surf compitition going on. There was lots of people at the beach watching and surfing. The hike was really short but the scenery was lots better than the last hike we went on.

 

     Well I hope that you all have had a great week and I cant wait to hear from you all. Thank you so much for everything that you have done for me!! 

Love, 

Elder Gale

Hiking with our zone

The view was awesome!

Beautiful Hawaii

   Hey everyone it has been a great week!! Transfers was this Wednesday and it went great.My new companion is Elder Orton. He is from South Jordan Utah and he is super cool!! We get along great and work great together!! 

   

    We have seen so many miracles this week!! The first happened Tuesday night, we were at our second dinner of the night with our recent convert Jamie and there was a guy and his wife sitting across from us and asked what religion we belong to. Jamie took over and invited him to church and all kinds of stuff!! It was so cool to see one of our converts sharing what we taught her and having that love for the gospel!  We got the address and info for the family and it turned out that they don't live in our area. They live in the sister missionaries area and are now being taught by them!

    The second miracle happened the day of transfers. Our zone leaders ran into a lady that has read the book of Mormon and is wanting to join a new religion! So we are going to start meeting with her as well! 

    The third miracle happened this past Friday. We had a combined zone lunch and we decided to go to MacDonalds. We went to a McDonalds that we normally wouldn't go to and as we were just about to leave a lady came over to us and asked if we were the missionaries for Mililani. We told her yes and she proceeded to tell us that her husband is a member and she has been taking her kids to church for the past 4 years and she just hasn't been baptized! She wants us to start meeting with her! It was so crazy how it happened!

   The fourth miracle of the week happened yesterday. The elders quorum president went over to a less active lady's house and she wants a book of Mormon and wants us to come over to answer some of her questions! The crazy thing is we have met with this same lady 2 months ago and she did not want to talk to us at all! It is amazing to see that people will be prepared and ready on their own time. We love having weeks like this one!!  

    I hope everyone is having a great week and I cant wait to hear from all of you real soon!! I love all of you guys and I appreciate all that you have done for me! Have a great rest of the week! 

Love Elder Gale

New companion.........Elder Orton & Elder Gale

Elder Bolkcom getting ready to fly home!

Our Zone activity.....

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It’s been a great week! We have had a pretty busy week trying to find people to teach. We had some awesome dinners this week! We ate with a less active member at his house who is trying to come back and his girlfriend is a non-member. She was super nice and seems pretty interested! For dinner we had all kinds of stuff and it was way good!!(he is a way good cook)

        Transfers are this week and I will be staying in my area...... I found out that my new companion is Elder Orton. I haven't met him yet so it will be interesting come Wednesday when I get to meet him. Our whole zone is going to be so much different this next transfer! There are lots of Sisters and Elders coming into our zone.   There are only 9 new missionaries coming in this transfer and so no one in our zone is training, that will be different!! 

       This past weekend has been great! We were able to watch conference and it was awesome!! We had to get up super early to watch it live. All of the missionaries in our zone watched it at the stake center. We were able to watch all of the sessions and it was great! I really liked both of President Uchtdorf's talks! He is a great speaker and what he talked about in his first talk about the less active members was awesome! We had a bunch of less active members from our ward that were watching it and it was almost like he was speaking right to them! I love how the members are here!! After each session of conference they had food in the gym for everyone that came to watch, it was crazy to see how much food they brought!!! They sure do love their food here!! 

        Everything is going awesome here! It is crazy to think that I have been out for 3 months already! The time is flying by so fast! I am loving it here!! We were able to attend cottage meeting this past week. Cottage meeting is where recent converts come with their missionaries and they tell their conversion stories. It was so cool to hear the testimonies of the converts! They are so strong and some had just been baptized 1 week earlier! It was an awesome experience.

        Well I hope you all have a great week!! And I can’t wait to hear from you all! Thanks so much for all that you have done for me! I love all of you so much! 

Elder Gale

District meeting skit " The High Priest Experience"

General Conference Hawaiian style (we ate after each session)
Hawaiians know how to eat!

P-day with the Zone

This week has been another great week. The work is slow right now and we are low on people to teach but we are starting to work with a couple of new people and they seem way interested. 

   We had a lesson with a girl named Erin. She has 2 friends that are leaving on missions soon and she is way open and we had a great lesson with her. She works every Sunday so she was unable to come to church but we will keep working with her and see where it goes! Other than Erin we haven't had any other lessons with investigators....... 

    Today we went on a hike for P-day today and we were all excited to go until we got about half way up the trail.... the scenery was OK but nothing special so it was more of a work out than anything. We still had a good time all together as a zone! 

     This upcoming week is transfers and my companion will be going home.... I will most likely be staying here for at least 6 more weeks but I could end up staying for another 3 months! We will find out this Sunday night. It will be interesting to see how many elders and sisters from our zone get transferred. We have a lot that could be leaving. 

   

     Well there isn't much else to say other than I love all of you and hope to hear from you all this week! Thanks so much for everything that you all have done for me! 

Elder Gale

Eating with the Clark family!
Their son will be serving in the Utah north mission, leaving this week!

The view from our hike!

P-Day fun!