Aloha Everyone!

     It has been another great week! Things are looking great in our area! We hit a little slow spot for a while but now it is picking up again and our investigators are doing great.  Nicole is still set for Feb. 8th and guess who finally came to church!!! YES the Tuias came.  We were so surprised when they walked through the door that I nearly fell off my seat. We were so excited that they finally made it a priority to come.  Niphae needs to come a couple more times to church and then he can get baptized!  We are shooting for Feb. 22 with him.  We also had a new investigator brought to church by a member and she seems like she is pretty interested and are so excited to see where see goes with the gospel.  Kaili also came to church and the great thing was that we were unable to have a lesson with him this past week but he still came on his own.  It makes it a lot easier on us when our investigators want to come on their own!  We are so excited to have things picking back up and are working extra hard to help each investigator progress.  We were finally able to talk to Destiny and Caleb's mom about teaching them and she wants us to slowly work with them and wants to sit in on the lessons with us.  That is a huge step forward and things are looking good and I am loving this area!

     We have had some crazy weather the past couple days.... it has rained so much and it has been super windy!  The ocean is super crazy right now.... the waves are huge. One of our members told us that the waves were getting up to 30 feet!  With all of the wind and rain it really cools us down and you will all laugh but it really does get cold here at nights haha!! Nothing like Utah, but still pretty cold for here.

     Our Temple trip was today and it was way fun.  We had to wake up at 4 am to make it to the Temple on time because we are on the exact opposite side of the island so  it took us some time to get there with the traffic. We had a great time at the Temple!

    Well I hope you are all having a great week! I love all of you so much! Thank you for all that you have done for me!  I hope to hear from you soon.

Elder Gale

Elder Gale & Elder Young Yen at the Temple

Beautiful Hawaii

Zone Temple Trip

Makeshift Weight Equipment

Hang Loose 

Aloha everyone:

   This has been a great week! Our investigators are all doing great! Nicole is still set for Feb 8th and we are way excited for her. Niphae is still the same just needs to come to church.... We are working with a new investigator named Todd. We havent been able to catch him for a while but we ended up having a great lesson on the Restoration with him and he loved it.

    This week for p-day we were able to do a service project as a zone for a family that had their gym burned down..... It was so sad! Everything that they had was gone.  All burned to the ground and we helped them move out and clean what was left and they were so happy for our help. They are a great christian family and loved to have us there! Their gym trains MMA fighters and they had a big fight coming up this week but now they have no place to train. They said that God will provide a way for them to accomplish what needs to be done. We had a great time helping and talking with them!  

    We had a very cool experience happen this Sunday! We had a man and a women show up for church and we thought that they were members.... We got to talking with them and they are not! But they want to take the lessons and be baptized! They loved church and want to keep coming back! We are way excited to see what happens with them!

    Well I hope you all have a great week and thank you so much for everything! I love and miss you and hope to hear from you soon.

Elder Gale

Zone Service Project

Aloha Everyone:

      This has been another great week! We had some really cool things happen. We had a lesson with our investigator Nicole and we invited her to be baptized and she accepted. Her husband just quit smoking and he will be ready to baptize her on Feb. 8.  She is excited that he will be able to baptize her and is very ready!!

       We also have a new investigator named Kaili, he is 19 and is dating a member.... he is very interested in the church and wants to learn more. We were able to share how we got the Book of Mormon and the Restoration with him and he loved it. He said that he wants to learn more and wants to keep meeting with us.

        Our other investigators are still about the same and Niphae still just needs to make it to church.  Destiny and Caleb are still unable to get baptized because their mom won't let them.... We are working so hard to try and help these investigators progress and to be able to be baptized! Things are going great in this area with so much potential and so many people to teach.  I am glad that I am training because that means that I will most likely get to stay in this area for 3 months.  I am loving it here and will be sad when I have to leave....

      Well I hope you all are having a great week and I love all of you and hope to hear from you soon. Thank you so much for everything you have done for me!

Elder Gale

Zone P-Day Fun

Aloha everyone!

     This has been a very crazy week! Tuesday was transfers and I had to drive in, drop of missionaries that were getting transferred and pick up the new Elders coming into our zone. Then later at night I drove in to get my new companion Elder Young Yen..... He just flew in from the MTC and we had a training with President Warner..... After the Training we drove back to our area and he was able to unpack his things and since it was new years eve we had a party with our zone. We were able to stay up until 1 am to watch fireworks. What a crazy first night in the mission field for Elder Young Yen!! Wednesday we had the whole day off so we got to just hang out with our zone and have fun!

    Thursday was a great day! We went over to talk to Kekoa and earlier in the week we asked him to read the Book of Mormon and to pray if he should be baptized! When we got there Thursday I asked him if he was able to do it and he said that he did!  I asked how he felt and he looked at me and said, "I feel like I want to get baptized!!!" I couldn't believe what he said and I had to ask him to say it again. We said that is awesome and asked when he wanted to get baptized and he said this Saturday! So we started making phone calls and got everything set up and this past Saturday Kekoa was baptized!!!!! I was so excited that he was finally able to decide that he wanted to be baptized. I know that the spirit was able to touch his heart and tell him what he needed to do. This Sunday he was given the Gift of the Holy Ghost and confirmed a member. Later on at church he was ordained to a Priest in the Aaronic Priesthood. This was an amazing experience for me to watch him take these steps in his life!

     We are having lots of success in this area and have so many people to teach and we have some other investigators who are so close to baptism.  I am loving this area and our ward here in Nanakuli and the people are so amazing and humble.  I am very grateful for this chance to be here serving the people of Hawaii! I hope all of you are having a great week so far and a great new year and I love all of you and hope to hear from you soon!

Love

Elder Gale

Kekoa's Baptism

Elder Gale & Kekoa

Elder Gale, Kekoa & Elder Rigby

Aloha Everyone!

     Sorry it is so late but today has been a crazy day!! We had 2 service projects today and it left us with little time to email! We laid concrete for a family in our ward and it was way fun! They are a new family that just moved in and needed help at their new house. The other project was for sister Lew... We moved some palets for her and then she gave us smoothies and coconuts to crack open.

     This week has been super crazy!  I found out on Friday that I will be training a brand new missionary and his name is Elder Yen and I will be picking him up on Tuesday. The crazy thing is that I will have to drive from Makakilo all the way to Honolulu by myself! I am excited and nervous to train but it will be a great experience!  My current companion Elder Rigby is getting in zone, in ward transferred!! So he will be staying here which is super cool!

     As far as our investigators they are all doing great! We met with Nicole Barcarse and she is doing awesome, she is wanting to get baptized when her husband can baptize her.... We are working on word of wisdom with him and it is going good... he should be ready with in a couple of weeks.  Kekoa is still good he has prayed and read his book of mormon and is still searching for his answer for baptism! He is so so close! As soon as he feels ready he can get baptized. We have hit a really slow spot with Destiny and Caleb, their mom still doesn't want them to get baptized...... But we are still trying to work with her and solve her worries. Niphae Tuia is another investigator that is super close.... his parents are both members and want him baptized. The only problem they have is they cant make it to church and they need to come before he can be baptized. Those are our main investigators that we are working with and we have a couple more that we are working with as well.....

On Tuesday they had all of us who are training come to the presidents home in Honolulu. The trainers got there early and then we went into the back room and waited, then they read a paper of where they will be serving and who will be their trainer and then we walked out one by one... It was a way awesome experience!  Elder Yen is from Samoa and has been in the MTC for 6 weeks.  He speaks pretty good English for as long as he has been there.  

 I hope all of you are having a great new years and I hope to hear from you all very soon! Thank you so much for everything! I love all of you have a great week!!

Elder Gale

Helping members lay concrete

We love doing service

I will miss Elder Rigby

Hawaii is always beautiful

Elder Yen & Elder Gale