Aloha Everyone

What a crazy and fun week! This week was like a p-week! Seemed like everyday we had something fun planned! Tuesday was our temple trip! So awesome to finally make it back to the temple! Been since last May! Been too long! We ate at north shore tacos and had an awesome trip with our zone! I love going to the temple cause I always run into members working there that I know from my past areas!  

Wednesday we went to Pearl Harbor to do service as a zone! When we got there we found out that we were going to be on film while we did service! So a guy from the church news came and wanted to video the service that the missionaries do! The church received an award for so much service! Over the past couple years the missionaries have done around 27,000 hours of service for Pearl Harbor and so the church wanted to make a video of it. The guy told us that it will be apart of the next church world news... most likely after General conference in April! 

Thursday we had an awesome opportunity, given to our whole mission! Our mission president got 250 tickets for the missionaries to bring families from our areas and investigators to the Polynesian Cultural Center (PCC)!! So we had to have someone to bring or we couldn't go. It wasn't to hard to find someone to go with us to a free $40 show! It was a great show that was all about Christ and Christmas! 

Saturday was our ward Christmas party! We always love going to them cause the awesome food. Gotta love the food. They even had the Polynesian Santa there!He wore slippa's and a lava lava instead of pants! 

To finish off our week we had a musical fireside on Sunday. Our ward put it on for the whole stake and it was awesome. They had selected 2 families to sing and 2 other people to sing also! It was awesome to have our investigators there and to listen to the music. Really brought the spirit of Christmas! As you can see we had a awesome week and not much time to waist. Which is how we like it! Our ward is so awesome and I am loving working with our members! Elder Luke and I are doing great together and I love him so much! He is so fun and has made our work fun! 

Well I hope you all are having a great Christmas season and sharing the gift of Christ with others! Please if you have any experiences share them with me! I love hearing about them! I hope you all have a great week! I love each and everyone of you!

Love,

Elder Gale

December 8th

Aloha Everyone

      Well what a week! We have had a crazy week. My companion was transferred, sad to see him go I will miss him for sure but that how it is! My new comp is Elder Luke from Heber Utah... he is awesome and we are getting along great! He is super quite but once I get him to talk he is great! He loves sports so that makes it nice! We have lots in common!

      We did a service project with some of the other Elders... We helped them with one of their members at his farm! This member got injured at his job and cant do a lot of the things he needs done on the farm so we go help him! His farm is a lot different than the ones I'm used to back home! Lots less land and everything is so close! We helped him mow his grass around his barn... He has a lawn at his farm! Then he has two horses, we feed them and ran them in his pen for him then let them lose to graze in the field.... Mucked the stalls and then made a fence for him! Being there made me miss the farm and doing that kind of work!! 

       Our investigators are great! Slowly but surely they are coming along! We met a high school Junior, his name is Dane Utu.... He knows lots about the Church and has good Friends that are members! We are excited to get to work with him and see where things go! 

        Yesterday was mission tour! All of Oahu got together and Elder Dallin Johnsten of the 70 came and was there with us! He is a very funny guy! He had all the wards on the island bring at least one representative to the meeting with us.... He directed his message towards the members and how they can better help the missionaries! He made it really fun always making jokes and having a good time! He had all of us break up with our person from our ward and he asked us to teach a principal of the gospel to them and then all the names that the member thought of we were supposed to write them down and set up appointments with them! He was very bold, but it worked. Our bishop was with us and because of this he wants us to do this with every family that we eat with! Elder Johnsten said that every member should (as a family) make a list of EVERY person they know that is not a member.... then each week pray together on which names you are going to invite to meet the missionaries! He was saying there are only 1 of 2 things that will happen! They will say no and you will still be friends or they will say yes and become even better friends! He made it sound so simple!! 

   Today for pday we went on a hike to a water fall.... but it wasn't that easy! The hike wasn't supposed to be very long but it was like a maze through the jungle and we ended up walking in circles! Finally we saw some one and just followed them!! Finally found the water fall!! Just too bad that we couldn't get in!! Had a great time though!! 

    Well I love each and everyone of you and hope you all have a great week!! Thank you so much for everything!! 

Elder Gale

Aloha,

    Another great week in paradise! Our week was great! Tuesday was our zone meeting. Was awesome to have the whole zone together. We talked about the new thing that the church is coming out with called "He is the Gift" world wide the missionaries and members can share and watch a video about Christ and how he is our gift for Christmas. Our zone talked about ways that we can share it with everyone! I want to give a challenge to you all..... Haha your thinking oh no here he goes again but I want you to all share this new video with family and friends! It is a great way to get ready for Christmas! I know hat the missionaries will have a card or you can Google it... I love the video and know that it can influence the lives of all who watch it! Can't wait to hear back from you on how it goes! 

     Had a service project for a less active family in our ward on Wednesday! Helped them with their yard work.... Love doing service! This family has a pig farm so we are going to ask if we can help them with the farm next time!

   Thanksgiving was awesome! We had members invite us over for breakfast, lunch dinner and in between! After about the first 2 we were so full but gotta keep eating! After all of the food we just wanted to sleep! Food coma! We got together with some of the missionaries and got to just hang out and have a a good time.

     Our investigators are doing great we missed Trimity this week they were busy so they had to reschedule for next week.... But we were able to see Kimo this week! Helped him with some service building a deck at his house then had a lesson with him. He is doing great and progressing. He is doing so good and loves the gospel just needs to see for himself that he needs it! 

    So we found out that elder Dzieman will be leaving this transfer! He only has 6 more weeks but our president decided that he was needed somewhere else.... Sad to see him go!  My new companion will be elder Luke. He is already in Kaneohe so he will just move over with me! He is a great missionary and I'm excited to be with him!

   Well thanks so much everything! I love you all and hope everything is going great for you! I am loving life as a missionary and the time is going by too fast! Have a great week!

Love 

Elder Gale