Aloha Everyone

     Another great week! Things are going so good here in Makawao! Elder Greene and I are finding great success! Just the other day we were walking down the road and a car pulls up next to us and it was a guy and some of his friends... they stopped us, the one that was driving said that he just moved from Big island and that his grandpa had given him a Book of Mormon. He has been reading it and was glad that he found us! We are now set up to start teaching him. We love when miracles happen like this and all of our hard work pays off! This past week in church was our ward primary program. It was really good for our investigators to see the kids participating in the program. We ended up having 7 investigators at church so that was so cool! President TakiTaki (member of our stake presidency) has a non member friend that has been living with them.  He has come to church and loves it! He asked us if he shouldn't take the sacrament until he is baptized! He is way interested in learning and is living with a great family! Our other investigators are great! We have been trying for a long time to get one of our investigators to get Sundays off so she can come but her boss would never give her Sundays off... Well he has finally allowed her to come to church and doesn't have to work Sundays anymore! The funny thing is.... He wasn't letting her have it off because he didn't believe she was going to church at all... So she finally said well if you don't believe me come with me this Sunday! He let her have it off!! 

     Today was another great pday!! One of our investigators told us about a really cool hike on Hana side to do so we thought we would try it out! The hike was a 4 mile hike and it stopped at 2 different waterfalls.... The first falls was Makahiku Fall a 185 ft waterfall... then a couple miles past that one was Waimoku falls a 400 ft waterfall. They were both really cool to see!! We ended our hike with going to the Pools of 'Ohe'o (aka Seven Sacred Pools) Too bad that there was 7 pools that we just had to look at and couldn't get in! It was still really cool to see the waterfalls and have a good hike! Pdays are always fun when we get to hike to waterfalls! 

    Well I hope you are all doing well! Thank you all for everything you have done for me! So I wanted to ask... I gave you all a challenge a couple weeks ago to think of a name and to start sharing the gospel with that person... I would like to know if anyone has had the chance to do that yet? If not the challenge is still there! I know that if you are willing to share our heavenly father will help you and you will know what to say! (D&C 100:4-6) He has done this many times for me on my mission! When I didn't know what to say he was always there to help me! He will help you to! Please let me know of your experiences of sharing the gospel! Hope you have a great week thanks again for everything! 

Elder Gale

Aloha Everyone!

We have had a great week! Our investigators are all doing great! This week at church we had lots of investigators there.... Also we had recent converts and less actives that came! When the people we are working with come to church it makes things a lot easier and lets us know that our hard work is paying off! We had a guy that just randomly showed up and said that he had been taught on the main land by elders and would like us to come over. Found the church and just came on his own. 

The highlight of our week was our baptism that we had on Friday. Loren Natividad got baptized! His baptism was so great! Our ward was great to come out and support him. His wife's family are all from Molokai and all came over to support him so that was really cool. He had a really good friend that is a bishop from another ward that came and baptized him and his wife's father confirmed him.... it was great to see it all work out that way and that he had that much support. 

Today for p-day we did so much! We did a waterfall hike early in the morning and it was way cool! A 200 ft waterfall and it was strait up and strait down the whole way! We were at the waterfall by 7:30am and then we went to another waterfall at 9 ish! We did 4 different waterfall hikes and then we meet up with some of the other missionaries and we did the 'Iao valley hike to the needle and that was way fun! The needle is a very high look out point and you are right in the middle of a huge valley. Super fun! We did so many things in a short amount of time. Had a great p-day. 

Well I hope things are going good for all of you! I love and miss you all! Thank you so much for everything you have done for me! Hope you have a great week!

I will send all the pictures to my mom and then she can put them on the blog so you can all see them! Thanks

Love,

Elder Gale

Aloha Everyone,

This has been a great week! Our investigators are all doing great and we are working hard to help them the best we can! We had 5 investigators who came to church with us so that was really good! Getting them to church is the hardest part! But our members are doing great to help us and keep the missionary work going!

Brother Natividad is getting baptized this Friday! I love when our investigators are the ones that are pushing to get baptized! He committed himself to baptism and set his own date and all that stuff! Super solid investigator! We got a text today that said, "Hi Elders. It's Loren Natividad. I want to be baptized this coming Friday. Let me know if that is possible." That made our day! Cant wait for Friday now! 

For p-day today we tried to do lots of stuff! We left up country pretty early and went to eat at Denny's... Well a guy working at Denny's said they were closed for a 1/2 more cause they were on break so we tried I-hop, it was closed too! So we ended up driving around till Denny's was open.. We ate breakfast there and then we drove to where we wanted to do a hike.... well we got all the way there and the hike we wanted to do is closed down..... So we went to the next hike thinking that one would work but no luck there either! So we decided that we would just come home and chill for the day guess we weren't supposed to hike today.... Better luck next week!!  

Well things are going great here! Maui is still awesome as ever and I'm loving it here! I hope you are all having a great day. Thank you so much for everything. I love you and hope the best for you.

Elder Gale

Aloha everyone

Wow we had a great week! Our investigators are so awesome! We now have a baptism coming up! Bro. Natividad is getting baptized! We are very excited for him and for his choice to progress in this gospel. We don't have a specific date picked out cause he works a lot and his schedule is crazy. But he wants to finish his lessons all at once and then the next available date he is getting baptized.

Our other investigators are good still working on getting them to church, which seems to be really hard for people! But they are going good and we are loving teaching them.

So yesterday for fast Sunday we had a ward fast for missionary work.... it went really well and with that we went around to each auxiliary and gave them a challenge... we handed them all a referral card and challenged them to put a name on it right then. When we received them all back we counted 53 referrals that our ward has given us. The point of the referral card wasn't for us to gain lots and lots of new people to teach....the point was to get the members thinking of their friends and how they can share the gospel with them. Now we have their friends names and we can follow up on what they are doing to share the gospel with those friends. I want to challenge all of you right now to think of a name of anyone who can use the gospel in their life and start sharing it with them. Don't be the friend that doesn't share with them. I know if you will all do this it will help the missionary work in your area and help the missionaries. I'm sure the missionaries would love you.

Today was the best p-day ever! A member in our ward invited us to go hunting with them! We couldn't be the ones to pull the trigger but we can help them pack it.... We had so much fun... We left at 4 am and started hiking in around 6. The member had invited a non member couple to join us and they came. The son of our member shot a really nice goat! He made a 400 yd shot, through both lungs and dropped it! (And he is only 13) We helped clean it and then pack it out! We were hunting on a REALLY steep mountain and when he shot the goat we were about to the bottom! We packed it back to the top cause it was the only way to get it out.... While we were packing it out I was walking a long side the wife of the couple that came with us and she was asking me questions about the church.... with all of her questions I am pretty sure that I taught her all the lessons. (haha) And while I was teaching her Greene was talking to the husband!! They are awesome people and are already living and sharing the gospel!

Well I hope you all have a great week! I love you all and wish the best for you! Thank you so much for all you do for me! 

Elder Gale

Aloha everyone,

    Our week was busy so that was nice! Our investigators are doing great! Brother Natividad is our most solid investigator he is married to a member and he is wanting to get baptized so we are super excited for him. Things are going great here upcountry. We are still having problems with investigators coming to church. That is the biggest thing holding most of them back.

      

    Today for p-day we went to our elders quorum BBQ! That was really fun we played volleyball with the youth from the ward and the Pukalani elders came with us too. It was torture just standing feet away from the sand and not being able to walk on it and get in the water but we still had fun! We had a huge feast!! Everyone just brought so much food. We had a couple of our investigators come so that was really good so our ward could fellowship them. We had a good time just hanging out. 

    Well I hope everyone has a great week. Sorry the email was kind of short this week but not much has changed. Thank you all for everything and I love each and everyone of you. 

Elder Gale