Aloha everyone

This has been another great week! Our investigators are all doing great. We have two families we are teaching, that one is a member and one is not. They are not married so we are working with them on that. Our bishop was teasing us cause all of our solid investigators are ones that have to get married first. We just had one get married so he can get baptized. He is getting baptized on Aug. 9th. 

So elder Hatch is being transferred to Oahu, and I kind of feel bad for him. He has been on Maui for the first 6 months of his mission and now has to go to Oahu. (Maui is so much better) It will be a good change. I am not sure who my companion will be yet they haven't told us yet. We do know that our zone is being split. We will now be the Maui and Maui west zones. It will be very different cause there will only be 10 missionaries in our whole zone. 

This morning for p-day we went to Haleakala to watch the sunrise. We had to leave at 3:30 am to get there in time and beat all the tourists there! It was a awesome sunrise! The last time we went it was way foggy and so we couldn't see a whole lot but this time it was really clear. Our zone is getting together later on today for a hike and a picnic together so that will be fun!

Well things here are going great. I am loving my mission and loving Maui. Thank you all for everything you do for me. Hope you all have a great week.

Elder Gale

Haleakala

Elders and Brother Anderson
 (a member in their ward)

Maui Zone Hike

Sunrise at Haleakala

Aloha everyone

This was a great week. So at church we had 4 investigators show up. Which is like a record for us. The investigators are all doing great.... We have Kawika's baptism coming up on Aug. 2.

So today for p-day we had a crazy day. We have been having a big tropical storm and so we weren't sure if we would be able to do anything. But it turned out pretty good. We played tennis with some members in the morning and then we traveled clear to the other side of the island with 8 of us missionaries and we went to a blow hole. It was a short little hike in to it but the drive there was the crazy part. The road is a one lane road the whole way and it is twisting back and forth so it is very dangerous and we had to go really slow. It took us about one hour to get there. When we did get there it was way worth it! It was a perfect day, it was overcast so it wasn't hot! We had a great time while we were there!

We had the chance of having a mini-missionary and it was very interesting. He was pretty cool and helped us out a lot... but after he left we realized that he had taken stuff from our pad. He took some small things nothing major and about $12! That's OK maybe he needed it. He was a big Tongan boy so he "HELPED" us finish off what was left in our fridge. Over all it was a great experience for us. Just got to remember to put the things we don't want taken away next time!

Well things are still going great here in Maui and I love it! Thank you all so much for all you do for me. Hope you all have a great week.

Elder Gale

Elder Gale, mini-missionary, Elder Hatch

Aloha Everyone

Another great week. The highlight of our week was..... Kawika our investigator got married. He is all set for his baptism now that he is married. We were very excited for him to get married and work toward his baptism.

Other than that things are still going great. I'm loving Maui and everyone here. The other day we saw a whole bunch of deer so that was cool. There was a nice buck in with them and I tried to talk my ward mission leader into going after him. They can hunt all year round as long as they have permission in the field that they are hunting in. But he wouldn't haha! That's ok, it was still really cool to see. 

So today for p-day we got up super early to try and do another hike...... well we drove like 20 miles to where it was supposed to be well it wasn't there and we couldn't find it. So we had to just turn around and come back home. 

Well things are going great for me and I'm loving it here! Thank you all for everything you have done for me! Hope you all have a great week! 

Elder Gale

Aloha Everyone

Wow we had a great week. Slow week for missionary work (with the holiday)but we had a lot of fun. So the town we live in had a rodeo and so we went....... Well it was fun but it was a little disappointing. Just not as good as the rodeos in Utah. All of the livestock were super small and the calves were beating the team ropers down the arena cause they were all riding super small horses. Plus they were all wearing vol com t-shirts with baseball hats on backwards. They just didn't fit the rodeo look. HaHa! They weren't that great, but it was still way fun to be back at a rodeo it defiantly made me feel like I was home. The rodeo was on the 4th and their parade was on the 5th. It was OK.... Again it was very different than the parades back home. We got board really fast and ended up leaving. 

    

On the the night of the 3rd our ward was having a ward camp on the beach. We went to it to eat and it was way cool to see all the ward camping and doing things together. 

    

On the night of the 4th we got together as a zone and ordered pizza and played games. That was fun to see the whole zone. We played capture the flag, ultimate Frisbee and just had a good time. 

So this Sunday was fast Sunday and our ward starts at 1 and ends at 4... Well the ward has a break the fast together and everyone brought choke food. As soon as the 3rd hour classes were done everyone was in the gym waiting to eat. And as soon as the prayer was said the food was gone. You only get to go through the line once, cause after that there was no more food. Ha that was our first dinner of the night then we had another dinner with members 2 hours later. So we were super full. 

Today for p-day we went on a hike as a district. It was sweet. It was called twin falls.... There was 2 main water falls that were awesome. It was a very cool and easy hike. The funnest part was that it down poured rain on us the whole way so we were drenched. 

Well this week was really awesome and I cant believe that is has been one year since I entered into the MTC. Thank you all so much for everything.

Elder Gale

P.S.

My new address:

Elder Tanner Gale

692 A Makawao Ave

Makawao, HI 967868-8922