Aloha everyone,

     It's been a crazy week! Well Tuesday was super busy! Had to go around and see all the members and investigators before I left! Didn't really have a break in between each family so not too much time for packing! I finally got done saying bye and we got home and then I had to start packing! Didn't get much sleep that night cause of that! I drove to transfers the next morning and I was super tired! Got my new companion and came to my new area..... Got all unpacked and then we went right out to see people! Was able to see quite a few of our investigators and members so that was nice! By the time we got back after dinner I was so dead! Slept great though!! 

     

     So we had one more full day of walking and then Thursday we got a call from the mission office that we were assigned a car! So we had to get a ride to go get a car! That was super cool day and a half in a walking area, then we get a car! our mission is losing lots of missionaries so there are extra cars! Our area will be great for the car! 

     My companion is Elder Tian.... He has been out almost 6 months and this is his first area still.... So far we are doing great! He is way funny and an awesome artist! He is loving having the car! 

     We have 2 investigators that have baptism dates! One coming up this month and then another next month! There are lots of people in our area that are prepared for the gospel in their life! They are so humble and love the gospel! I am loving this new change and looking forward to what will come!

    Well thank you all so much for everything! I love and miss you all! Hope to hear from you soon!

My new address:

1724 Beckley St, Apt #332
Honolulu, HI 96819

Elder Gale 

Aloha everyone,

   

      Well another great week! I found out that I will be transferring to Kalihi (island of Oahu). My new companion will be Elder Tian and our area is a walking area! Bitter sweet moment! Will be great to be back in a walking area! Maybe lose a little more weight for my last 6 months! I am super excited for this new challenge and experiences that I will have! I have heard so many great things about my new area! 

     This week was a great week for us here in Kahalu'u! So many great things! As always we had lots of service! Our investigators are doing great and progressing! Still working with sister Harris and she is so awesome! We just love teaching her! The love she has for the gospel is so amazing! Even if she is still learning and doesn't know much she can feel the truth!  Trinity is still a struggle trying to catch her home! Busy busy busy! Her and her family will be moving to the Big Island soon and we are trying our very best to make sure she sticks with it when she moves! 

Kimo is still doing great! Still loves the service that we do for him! We love him very much and have a great time being with him! 

     Our wars had a awesome baptism this week! 8 year old Mohini Lakatani Matevale got baptized! He has been waiting for a long time for his baptism day! His older brother (Faitele Fa'afoi) was the one going to baptize him and he insisted he wait till he could do it! His brother plays d-line for the university for Arizona and finally made it back to preformed the baptism! Great to see his love for his brother and the gospel! We had worked with him a couple times before and he was so ready! Love witnessing these experiences!

     Today for Pday we went on a sunrise hike to start off! Super sweet view! Could see all of Kaneohe!! After the hike we got breakfast then did our laundry and stuff like that.... We are getting together as a zone for the last time this transfer not sure what we will do.... Probably play sports! Should be way fun! 

     Well I am doing great and loving life here in Hawaii!! I love and miss everyone of you! Hope you are all having a great week! Thank you all so much for everything you have done for me! Hope to hear from you all soon! Love ya!

Elder Gale

Aloha Everyone,

     Well it's been another great week! We had a great New Years! We watched the Saratov approach as a zone! Then we went with one of our members and eat an awesome dinner! We also set off choke(a lot) fireworks with them! Hawaii loves New Years and so many fireworks everywhere! The fireworks go for about a week before New Years and like a day after! Makes lots of smoke that just sits in the air! But it's also lots of fun!

   New Year's Day we were supposed to have a service project but it ended up getting canceled cause we had a big storm come in..... Got supper windy and knocked down lots of trees! Crazy how fast it came and then left just as fast! 

     Saturday was a great day for us!! We had our service with the member that owns a farm! Love going over when he asks us! Then after our service we got to see all the people we needed to and was our busiest day! Love days like that!! 

      We are trying very hard to get Trinity baptized! They are moving to Big Island in a couple weeks and want her baptism here so all the family can make it! Lots of work to do to make it but we can do it! 

     Our other investigators are doing great had a awesome lesson with sister Harris! She finally came to church and stayed all three hours! She is going to be a great member! Already is great! 

       I hope you all had a great New Years! You should all have a New Years goal of being better at sharing the gospel with others! Something great to shoot for!! Thank you all so much I love and miss each and everyone of you!! Have a great week!!

Elder Gale

18 month mark........so we have to burn something! HaHa  This is a pair of my pants!

December 29, 2014

Aloha Everyone

     Well Christmas was so great!! Hope you all had a very awesome Christmas!! It was so good to talk and see family when we Skype!! Got to see how much everyone has changed in the past 8 months!! I loved being able to talk and see you (if you were there)!! Made my Christmas a great one!! 

    This week was kind of crazy!! So we had Our regular Tuesday other than we were only supposed to go to set appointments and then on Wednesday our mission president told us to be done right after lunch!! Well that made things pretty interesting for us!! We didn't have many set appointments either day so we had lots of free time that we didn't know what to do with!! Made for a very boring couple days!! But finally on Christmas came and made it better!! Got to Skype and then we had dinner with some members and then our zone got together and watched Frozen!! I had heard so much about it but that was the first time I had watched it!! Really fun and kinda a weird feeling haha!! We had lots of fun as a zone doing that though!! 

      We had a great service project this past Saturday!  Helped a member on his farm!! We took out a old part of his barn out and put a new support in!! It took quite a long time just cause the member was making sure and letting us know how to do every little step... we get more work done when he isn't watching because he thinks his way is the only way! But that's Ok we love doing service for him and it makes me happy to be back on a farm!! He has horses and we got to take care of them! Too bad we cant ride them!! 

      Our investigators are all doing so good!! This Christmas season was so great to be with them and to see them progress!! We are still working with Kimo and doing service for him, Working with Trinity well when we can catch her home we do! We have just started working with Sister Harris and things are looking great with her!! We have so many others that are doing so great! Elder Luke and I are doing great and having a great time serving together!! 

   Well things are going great here for us and I hope things are good for all of you!! Thank you all so much for everything!! Hope to hear from you all soon!! 

Elder Gale

December 22, 2014

Aloha Everyone!!

    Another great week!! Our investigators are all doing great!! We have started working with a part member couple, the Harris's!! Brother Harris just received his Melchizedek Priesthood this past week and Sister Harris is not a member... She is so awesome and comes every week to church and stays to all the classes!! We can already tell that she has a love for the gospel! Just gotta get in the water haha!!

     Our other investigators are doing well, Kimo is the same.... Not really showing much change. We are trying our best to help him and to love him.... He loves having the missionaries over but it kinda seems like all he wants is for us to do service for him! Service is great but not our ultimate goal with him!! Hope things will work out with him!!

    We had the opportunity to help some of the other elders in our zone with a service for a member in their area! It was good to help them! We moved a huge pile of dirt (clay!!) for them that had been there for almost a year and every time it got rained on it gets harder and harder!! That made things very interesting!! But we use the dirt to level their backyard and when we were finished a couple hours later it looked great!! After the service the family feed us a huge breakfast!! It was awesome cause instead of making the local kine food they made a main land breakfast!! Hash browns, eggs, Bacon, Sausage!! That was a good change for once!!

     Our ward mission leader just got released and we got a new one! Our new ward mission leader is brother Ah Nee! He is so awesome and loves to help the missionaries! His son just left on his mission so he has a great desire to get things rolling!! So does his wife!! Sometimes I wonder if they called him to be the ward mission leader or her!! She is on top of everything and has so many great ideas!! We love them and they will be great!! We will miss our old ward mission leader for sure!!

      So today for p-day we had planned to go on a hike........ Well guess we weren't supposed to go!! Because when we woke up to go it was raining super hard and super windy!! I know you all will laugh but it was freezing!! When your body gets used to the 80 degree weather and then it decides to be super over cast and rainy its cold! I’m going to FREEZE back in Utah!!

    Well thank you all so much for all that you do for me! I love you all so much! I hope that you are all enjoying your holiday season and remember there is still plenty of time to share the he is the gift with someone!! Can’t wait to hear all of your missionary experiences!!

Elder Gale