Aloha Everyone....

    This week has been a pretty good week... We are working hard and trying our best. Things are a little crazy right now.... our investigators are all doing ok just in weird situations. Chucky has moved out of our area but still wants to be taught by us and come to our ward, we will have to see if we will be able to keep teaching him or not. Kaili is doing good, he wants to be baptized but he is living with his girlfriend and won't be able to be baptized while living together.... He wants to be baptized so bad and is trying to move out so he can be baptized and that is great, but just might take some time.... Niphae didn't come to church again this week.. we are trying to get them to come each week so he can be baptized, but the family just can't make it!

     On the good side of things we had so many members give us referrals this week! We got referred to a family that is very interested and wants to learn more. They have member friends that have been working with them and that helps a lot!! Things are still pretty good here in this area and every week won't be a slow week. This next week will be a great week for us!

    Our Zone made a deal with our Mission President, that if we hit all of our goals that we will be able to meet as a zone for P-day..... Well we crushed our goals and so today we get to be with our whole zone instead of just our district! We are having a lunch/get together at one of the beach parks in the area... it should be way fun.

     I hope you are all having a great week and I love to hear from you all! Thank you so much for everything! I hope that I hear from you again soon! 

Elder Gale

Aloha Everyone!

      We have had a great week and our investigators are doing great. Charles a new investigator has committed to stop smoking by the 26th of this month and be baptized on March 15.... He is way awesome! He wants to quit smoking so bad and is so willing to change!  He was smoking 8-10 a day but since we taught him about the Word of Wisdom he is down to 1-2 a day.  He came to church again this week and he loves it! He calls us all the time wanting to meet with him again and we are so excited to see where he goes. 

Niphae Tuia is struggling to keep his commitments again..... Sadly we are having to post-pone his baptism for a later date until they show that this is a priority in their lives.  He wants to be baptized, but his parents have a hard time coming to church.... We are hoping the best for him and want to see him progress to baptism!  

Kaili is doing so great, but he has one problem..... He has nowhere else to live but at his girlfriend's house because his mom kicked him out... so he can't be baptized.... He wants to so bad and he is ready.  It was so hard for us to tell him that he has to wait for now. We are going to try and do anything we can to help him find another place so he can be baptized.

     My new district is awesome!  It is all Elders which is kinda nice haha Sisters are great but still got drama!  The elders in my district are awesome and both are serving in language wards and have all been out for over a year... my companion and I are the youngest two in the district and I am the district leader.  I am excited for the challenge and hope that I can help them the best I can! 

     I am loving it here in this area and loving my chance I have to serve our Heavenly Father.  I am so grateful for this chance to be here in Hawaii and I love all of you and want to thank you for all the support you give me! I hope to hear from you all very soon and have a great week... Love you all!

Elder Gale

I Love The Food Here

Ward Valentine Party

Aloha everyone:

This has been a very interesting and great week!  We have had so much going on! We had a baptism this Saturday and it was great! Nicole got baptized and her husband was able to baptize her.  It was so cool to see how ready she was and excited their family is for them! Their next goal is to go to the Temple in 1 year and that will be so awesome for their family!

We had a way cool experience with a member from another ward in our stake.... He called us and wanted to introduce us to a guy that is working and also renting from him.... He set up an appointment and it went great.  Charles (the friend) is very interested and is wanting to learn more.  He was able to come to the baptism on Saturday and he came to church on Sunday also. ! He is on fire and wants to set up lessons with us and we are very excited to see where he will go.

   

We had a great lesson with Kaili (investigator) this week.  We taught him about the Restoration and he loved it and wants to be baptized.  He has a baptismal date for March 22!!! Things are going great for us with lots of people that are interested in the gospel.

This transfer is already over and it has gone by so fast.  We got the transfer news last night and I will be staying with my companion Elder Young Yen..... And I have been called as our new district leader... I am nervous and excited to be able to have this calling to help my district!! It will be lots of work but it will be worth it.

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

Elder Gale

Nicole's Baptism

They all look so happy!

Aloha Everyone:

 

    This week has been great. Our investigators are all doing good and we have a baptism coming up this Saturday..... We are very excited for that!

 

    This Sunday was pretty crazy.... There was like no one at church, but it sounds like there basically wasn't even a Superbowl game, but O well.... Our neighbors had a huge party and we couldn't even get to our house because there were so many cars.  They brought us over so much food so we were good with it!

 

     Today for p-day was awesome!! We went on a hike with our zone and it was so cool!!  We hiked right along the beach and it was a very nice hike. The scenery was great and part of the hike was on sand and so we got to "kind of" be on the beach hahah close enough! We had a great time!

 

We had a great week with our investigators! They are all progressing great and we have a lot of work to do and it keeps us busy and that is the way we like it!! I hope you all are having a great week! I love to hear from you thank you so much for everything! Sorry the email is kinda short this week! Not much time! Have a great week.

 

Elder Gale

P-Day Hike Along The Beach

Elder Gale & Elder Young Yen 

Hawaiian Wildlife

Now We Can Shoot Hoops At Home

Free Basketball Hoop

P-Day Fun "Aloha"