Elder Tanner Gale

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