Aloha everyone,

      This has been an ok week....... We had a baptism scheduled for Sunday Dec. 22 for Kekoa and everything was looking great untill the night before and then he all of a sudden told us that he didn't want to be baptized...... We were so disappointed! He was so excited and we dont know what changed. He told us that he wants to keep coming to church and meeting with us but wants to keep looking for other churches too..... We are hoping for the best! We really think he just needs some friends at church to encourage him.

        We had a surprise mission tour with Elder Richards of the quorum of the 70 this Friday and it was way good.... Our mission president and Elder Richards really stressed obedience in the mission and want to have a really obedient mission. We were each interviewed by President and Elder Richards which was kind of intimidating but went really well! Elder Richards is a very nice guy and wants to help our mission out in any way he can.  

        Other than that our week has been pretty normal! We are still working with lots of investigators and a couple of them are so close to baptism. The area is doing really good and I love working with the people here!

I hope everyone has a great Christmas Holiday! This is one of the best times of the year to remember our savior and what he has done for us. I hope we can all remember the true meaning of Christmas. I love all of you and cant wait to hear from you! Merry Christmas and Aloha!

Elder Gale

Best Christmas present ever.....