Aloha,

     This week was a big learning experience for me and one I will never forget! We saw so many miracles happen this week and it made me realize the love our father in heaven has for each and everyone of us no matter what we have done he still loves us and wants to bless us! 

      Wednesday was our Pearl Harbor service as a zone... Always fun to go and do service on the Battle ship. We had a really great service and then the guy that helps us when we are there(Kevin) took us to the Utah memorial site, really cool to see what is left of the ship.. cant see much other than the top sticking out of the water. After our service was over we had a very busy day planned! We got ready and went strait to meet up with one of our members. We went around in one of the housing areas with this member and visited 5 families......  These families were families we have been trying to see for quite a while and we have never been able to catch them home... well turns out that we got to see all 5! I realized how much we need the members to be involved in missionary work! We tried to visit these families on our own but for other reasons could not get in. But when this member was with us she was able to be super bold and tell them things that we as missionaries cant! Because of the member we got 3 new investigators and 4 return appointments! I know that this is the way our father in heaven wants us to do his missionary work! Members and missionaries together. 

       Our investigators are all doing pretty good. We weren't able to see Robert this week and we haven't  been able to contact him. We are hoping that things are still going good with him and maybe he just needed some time. We are still working with Pua, Angela and Alia on working towards their baptisms. We are really focusing on the 2 new families that we are starting to teach. They both have 2 unbaptized children and they want them baptized! Things are picking up here in our ward and area and we are getting lots of help from our ward! They are now getting on board with investigators and wanting to help them! We are getting calls almost daily from members asking if they can go out with us! 

       Well I am loving my mission and learning so much about myself and about this gospel! I truly know that this gospel is true and that our savior Jesus Christ is our loving brother and that our father in heaven loves us more than we can know! I am so grateful to be a missionary and for my chance to learn and to grow spiritually. Thank you all so much for all your love and support I really do appreciate all you have done for me! 

Elder Gale 

       

Aloha, 

      It's been another great week!! This past Tuesday we went to the Temple as a zone. Always great to have a good Temple trip! And after the Temple we always eat at North Shore Tacos!! Best place ever! 

     We got to see some people this week that we haven't been able to see for a while so that was awesome!! We found a less active family that has been lost for a while and their kids were talking to us and that's how we found them! One of the kids is baptized and then the other 3 aren't yet!! Hoping that we can start teaching them!! 

      Our investigator Angela is doing great, got to see her for the first time in a couple weeks and had a really great lesson with her! She has had 13 sets of missionaries! She wants to know everything before she gets baptized and no matter how many times we tell her she will never know everything she still wants to wait and learn more! So we keep praying for her and hope that Heavenly Father will tell her when it's time! 

     Robert is doing great!! We have a awesome time teaching him!! He makes our job so easy! He asked us if we can do 2 lessons a week instead of 1 and if it is alright if he brings friends!! Love when they do that!! We have a cottage meeting tonight, he asked if he could go with us and if he could speak! A cottage meeting is where recent converts give their testimonies and we bring investigators! He already wants to speak!! So excited for him and where he will go with the gospel!! 

         Our Saturday service project was really fun! Spent the day doing shingles on a roof for one of our member's! We got all the old ones off and then it decided to rain! We were soaked cause we stayed out in the rain to get the felt paper down so the rain wouldn't go through.... Then we covered the tools and got off the roof just in time for the rain to stop again!  So back up we went and got all the roof done except we were one bundle of shingles sort to finish the last part so we had to cover it with tarps till he can buy some more! Had a good time helping out and had fun! Got to talk to a less active member that was helping to so that was cool! 

      Last night we had a awesome dinner with a Tongan family in our ward the Finau's! They invited lots of people to eat with us! None member families, part member families and less actives. Was really neat to see how many people came and got to meet lots of potential people to teach! One of their tenants is a family who is interested in meeting with us and they were there at the dinner. We got to meet them and talk shortly with them. Awesome to see how much desire to share the gospel this family has!! I'm sure the missionaries in your ward/area would love that too!! Please try and find someone to invite! Makes missionary work so much easier! 

        I am loving my mission and am so very grateful for my chance to serve our father in heaven and the people here in Hawaii! It has been a blessing for me! Thank you all for everything you have done for me!! I love each and everyone of you! Hope you all have a great week! And please remember to share your missionary experiences with me!! 

Elder Gale

March 16th, 2015

Aloha,

     Well this was a great week for us! So the highlight of this week, we had a great lesson with Robert! We taught him the plan of salvation and at the first of the lesson he was struggling with someone trying to push him away from meeting with us but as we went through the lesson the spirit was so strong and he felt it. He told us that he has no doubt that it's true now!! When we talked about being able to live with our families forever he got tears in his eye and said I knew there was more and it just makes sense! He lost his father a couple years back and not on good terms so he was so happy now that he knows he can see him again! At the end of our lesson he told us that he has 1 cigarette left and he isn't buying anymore! We can see a big change in him already and we are so luck to have the opportunity to be with him! So excited to see where he will go with the gospel!

       On another side Aunty Pua had a less exciting lesson. She is pretty attainment that she isn't coming to church and that she probably won't me be getting baptized anytime soon. We are doing all we can to help her but we just can't seem to get through to her. She keeps telling us I know what you teach is true and I will get baptized. But the when is what she doesn't know and Is scared for. Please pray for her we know that our father in heaven will guide her to baptism when the time is right! Our other investigators are doing pretty good still working with them and helping them progress!

        Well Saturday was a very busy day for us! We had the service at the preschool in the morning. We did the yard, painted and all sorts of stuff! I found myself in a tree trimming it! Then Aunty Annette asked if I could help her cut potatoes but when we got to the kitchen she said oh yeah do you know how to take out my old oven?? Ha so instead of cutting the potatoes for lunch another Elder and I took out her old oven and put the new one in...wasn't as easy as we thought It would be! We had to build a complete new part in her cabinet just so it would fit... Then we got that done and found out that the old oven was just a little wider than this one so there was a gap on both sides. Fixed that problem and got it all on and wired and it worked! Ha always love that feeling when you make something work.... Didn't want it to not work!! That would of been embarrassing! So as soon as we were done at the preschool we went strait to one of our members house to help them move stuff in to storage so that they can remodel. They feed us dinner after and so we ended up not getting done at their house till around 8 ha! From 8am to 8pm doing service! We were exhausted but it was well worth it! 

We had a really good sacrament meeting this Sunday. Had a returned missionary from our ward speak.... Made me realize that would be me in a little while! Then I quickly stopped thinking about that! I still have a year left right?! He was awesome to listen to and brought the sport for sure! 

        Well thank you all for all your love and support! I always look forward to hearing from you and hearing missionary experiences?? Still haven't gotten too many of them?? I hope you all have a great week! Love you all very much!!

Elder Gale

March 9th, 2015


Aloha, 

     Another great week as usual! I am loving it here in Kalihi and my companion is so awesome!! I love working with him and learning from him for sure! He has already taught me so much and helped me in my mission! We have had a great week! Our investigator Robert is doing great! Finally got to teach him his first lesson on Tuesday morning and it was awesome! We shared the restoration with him and he loved it! After the lesson was over he asked us "so do I need to stop drinking and smoking before I can get baptized?" After we told him yes he told us that he can give them up easy! We set a quit date for him for April 5th! Then he will set his baptism date. We are so excited for him and to be able to help him! 

     Other cool and exciting things that happened this week. Well we did service for a member of our ward on her boat! She lives at the Keehi boat harbor on her boat! She asked us to come take some boxes to her storage unit for her so we got to go on to the boat for just a second! 

      So we were trying to visit a less active member and we were walking down the road where she lives and she had just got out of her car with groceries... We offered to help her carry her things to the door and right when we did, this crazy old aunty started yelling at us saying that Mormons are bad and only talk to women, that we should talk to her husband and leave her alone. She was saying some pretty funny things and then our member said oh shut up they are from my church! The lady didn't know what to say back to that and just went back inside.... These experiences have made my mission not just because it's a funny story cause it is, but because it shows that even though our member doesn't come to church she is still willing to stand up for the church. It showed me that she still believes and has faith! I hope we can all say the same for ourselves! When we are in though situations, are we going to just turn away and not say anything or are we going to be like this member and protect the gospel and show how much it means to us.

Today for pday we have a BBQ planned with the other missionaries in our zone... going to go to a beach park and play sports and eat food!! Always great to get together and see the other  missionaries.  So I bet you all remember the He is the Gift video right?? Well the church is coming out with another set of videos similar to that... It is called "Because He Lives". Videos won't be available till later this month but I want to challenge you all right now to start thinking of who you can share this with! Then when it comes time you will be ready. 

     Thank you all so much for everything you have done for me! I love you all and hope you have a great week! Hope to hear from you all soon!

Elder Gale

Aloha, 

  

    Well this week was so great! We had great success this week and got to see all of our investigators! They are all doing great! So we were referred to a new investigator by a member.... She was cleaning his house for him and, is always inviting everyone she runs into! He said yes to meeting with us! His name is Robert, we had a lesson with him and he told us he had been searching for something that has been missing for a while, that's what made him say yes to meeting us. We talked about our purpose as missionaries and what he expected from meeting with us. Told him that we would be inviting him to do little things, he was excited and asked when church is! Without even sharing a actual lesson he felt the spirit and he is ready! Yesterday at church he was there with us and it was amazing! Our ward was awesome to reach out to him and make him feel welcomed! He told us in between sacrament meeting that it felt right being there with us! President Auna of the 70 was there, in 3rd hour he spoke to us and it was about missionary work and Robert cried! We are so excited to be with him and to help him! Pretty sure he is getting baptized soon!

     The rest of our week was great! Had 2 service projects on Saturday and they both feed us choke food! Had a baptism Saturday night for Leia! She is a funny girl and love the missionaries! She has been telling us for a month that we can't miss her baptism and that she wants us there!

     Today for pday we went on a hike to a water fall..... Half way to the water fall there was a cool bridge thing with a pill box at the end super fun and awesome waterfall! Always great to be able to hike! 

    Well thank you all so much for everything! I love and miss each one of you! Keep sharing the gospel with your friends! Have a great week!

Elder Gale