Aloha

     We have had a pretty good week. First off our investigators are doing great. We went to see Trinity and things are great with her. Just gotta get her to pay attention long enough to have a lesson:) 

    Kimo is an investigator that we do service for every Saturday... Well this week we went and helped him get ready for Thanksgiving! His family will be having a imu and we helped I'm get that all ready! For those who don't know what a imu is, well they dig a big hole and get rocks and banana leaves for the bottom and then cook meat in it all night! Wrap the meat in the leaves and then cover it back up with dirt for the night to cook! Pretty cool how it's done and very good! 

      We were able to eat lunch with 2 of the elders in our zone and while we were with them they got a call asking for a blessing at the hospital.... Well they don't have a car so we had the chance to go with them to give the blessing. The missionaries are always getting calls for blessings at the hospital and it is all ways awesome to see the people and to help them. This person had one surgery and because of internal bleeding had to have a second surgery. He wasn't doing so good and his father asked us to give him the blessing. Turns out that the father and the son are both members but the sons wife is a non member. We were just about to give the blessing without her there but she got there just in time! Awesome to see that she still felt the spirit and the need for the blessing! We are not sure what happened but we know that we gave the wife a chance to have that spirit in her life and hopefully it will touch her!

     This morning we had a service project with some of the elders in our zone. We helped move a lady into their ward. Great way to start our Pday off! Not much planned for the rest of our day.... Laundry and get our pad clean:) haha things are going great here in Kaneohe and loving every minute! I hope you all have a great week and I love all of you! Thanks so much for all you have done for me!

Love,

Elder Gale 

20th birthday party with the zone

Aloha Everyone!! 

What a week!!! Super Awesome and very good week!!

      So we have been challenging our zone to find more investigators and to hit all of our goals! We have been really struggling with that!! But this week was a great week for our zone!! Seems like we are on fire right now!! We hit all of our goals and improved so  much!! We see that our father in heaven is blessing our us and we are seeing the miracles! Our mission President has promised every zone that if they hit their goals that he will have a pancake breakfast with them!! Well our zone has hit it back to back transfers now!! The first time was easier but the second time he said we had to have a higher goal for baptisms!! It went from 1 a week to 3 a week to get the breakfast!! Well we had 3 this week!! So awesome to see our zone doing so well!!

     One of the baptisms was a really special one for me!! It was an investigator that I had previously taught in Nanakuli about 1 year ago!! His name is Erik Smith and when we were teaching him and he was so ready... He was unable to be baptized because he was living at his girlfriends house!! Well I left the area and before I left he told me "Don't worry Elder Gale! I'm getting baptized one day!!" Well he kept his promise!! He moved out to go to school and just happened to move to Kaneohe!! He has been here for a couple months and when I was transferred here he was just set with a date for baptism!! This past Saturday was his baptism and I was able to be there and to see him complete his goal that he made a year ago!! I DONT think it was a coincidence that I transferred here! I know that heavenly father knew that I would love to be there and I see how he knows what he is doing!! It was a blessing for me to see him and to witness his baptism!! 

      We had a really great week with our investigators! We had a lesson with a Trinity Chun...She is an unbaptized 11yr old child and her grandfather wants her to be taught and prepared for baptism!! Just over a year ago he was offended and quit coming to church. Well he recently has returned and he said its time for her to come too!! We are so excited for them to make it back to church and for her to have the gospel in her life!! We set a date with Trinity for Dec 6th!! She learns slower than most kids her age so we will be taking it slow so Dec 6th is a goal. If she is ready by then great if not we will push it back. But she is for sure getting baptized!!

     For p-day today we went on a hike super early in the moring to watch the sunrise as a zone! Super cool hike and had a great time!! Then we all gathered to eat breakfast together and then traveled to Kualoa Ranch... It is where lots of movies are filmed here like Jurassic Park, 50 first dates and many others! We got to go on a tour of the whole place and see where it all took place super awesome!! After we were done with that we went to the chapel and had a slip'in slide!! Ha zone p-day so we had to go all out!! Had lots of fun with the zone today! 

Well thank you all so much for everything!! I love you all and hope the best for you!! Like always remember my challenge to share the gospel with a friend!! 

Love,

Elder Gale

Erik Smith's Baptism

Good to see cows (even if they are longhorns)

Aloha Everyone

        This was a great week! We had our zone conference on Thursday. We were combined with Mililani zone…. Like always it was great to be with the missionaries from the other zone and to be with President and Sister Warner! Elder Dzieman and I had to do a training… We ended up training on finding new investigators. Our zone has been really struggling with finding new people to teach so we felt like that is what we needed to train on. Our training went great and at the end of our training we challenged our zone to Find One, Commit One!!! Just a little saying we came up with to motivate the zone…… We know that our zone should be finding a lot more than just one new investigator a week but we haven't been doing so well so we figured we would shoot for one per 

companionship to start it off. 

       While we were with our mission President he told us about a missionary in our mission… A Elder serving on Maui got really sick and ended up in the hospital. No one knew what was wrong with him, well after about a week in the hospital he was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. He was doing his very best to stay positive but unfortunately he was sent home to be treated. Our mission will defiantly miss him and the great missionary that he is! Just reminds me how fast things can change in life and in the mission field!

        We had a very crazy night on Wednesday! We played indoor soccer with a bunch of non-members, Less-actives and investigators at the church. Well we were having a great time and just about time for us to take off and Elder Dzieman rolled his ankle. Didn't look so great! So we spent the rest of the night icing his ankle and getting ready for Zone Conference. Well we get to zone conference and he just walked normal so that no one would know that he did it… Mainly our mission President. Well no one found out so that was good!! He ended up going to the doctor on Friday and he is now on crutches!! So things will be pretty interesting for us for a while!! Not as much walking around that's for sure! Along with his ankle we both have been sick… But the good news is that we are both not sick anymore and even with both of these things we still were able to see all of the people that we needed to see! Kind of funny how that worked out. We are usually rushing to see every one and don't have too much down time. But it worked out great this week!! Saw everyone and had a little time in between for Dzieman to rest his foot! I know that our father in Heaven was watching our for us and knew how important it was that we still see everyone!! 

       Sunday was supper funny cause when we came walking in… well when i was walking in and he was crutching in everyone stopped and asked Elder Gale did you do that to him haha!! I just started replying well that is how we do companionship inventory and this time he just wouldn't listen haha!! Got some great laughs out of that one. We had so many people at church cause of a missionary farewell. We were greeting people at the door and there was not even room for us to sit anywhere. We ended up sitting with about 20 other people in the hall. That was ok we still had a great meeting! After the meeting was over we were talking with everyone and I saw my bishop from my first area at our ward!! He was there for the farewell with his family!! Small island i guess. I got to talk with him and ask how my first ward was doing. Really cool to get to see them again.

      Well I love you all so much! I hope you all have a great week! Thank you so much for all you have done for me and continue to do for me! Remember to always share the gospel with your friends! 

Love,

Elder Gale

Another great week,

       This week we had the opportunity to do lots of service! Just about everyday we had at least one service project to help either a member or one of our investigators..... We love having the chance to serve and it makes our week so much fun. We have seen so many miracles come through doing service. We have a part member family who didn't want the missionaries to teach their unbaptized children. So instead of pushing the gospel on them we just showed our love for them by serving them..... We were driving by and they were getting ready to do yard work so we stopped and helped them. After we were finished the kids asked if we would play basketball with them..... we took time to play with them and the parents saw that we weren't just there to baptize them and that we actually do care about them. Because we took time to serve them and spend that time with them it opened their hearts and they want us to teach the kids now! I know that our heavenly father touched them and I am glad that we were able to be there for them. 

         We had a great Halloween! The first part of our day was more service and at 5pm our mission president asked us to be together as a zone. We met up at one of the chapels and played sports and had a good time together. Being together brought our zone closer and helped us get to know our missionaries! Our zone is a great zone filled with awesome sisters and elders! 

     

    Well Saturday and Sunday were a little bit different than usual.... Elder Dzieman was sick.... So for all day Saturday we stayed inside and he rested. Come Sunday morning he was still not feeling good so We weren't able to make it to church. Our ward was worried about him so we kept getting calls and texts asking if we needed anything and we even had members just stop by and bring things to us. We love our ward and are very grateful for the support that they give to us! 

I am very grateful for my chance to be here in Hawaii and to serve the people here! We get to meet so many awesome people! I know that our father in heaven is opening the heart of people everywhere to hear this gospel! I want to hear any experiences that any of you have been having? And remember my challenge to you..... Share the gospel with a friend and I know that heavenly father will help you and bless you!  Thank you all so much for all that you have done for me! 

Love,

Elder Gale