Aloha,

       This was a great week! Alex is still doing great and working towards his baptism! We spent our last Monday shopping for clothes for them! Their family doesn't have much so I decided that I wanted to get them some things. We finally have the 3 boys white shirts and ties and the oldest has pants. Still working on finding the younger boys pants. But they were so excited that we brought them clothes! This family is so awesome and I'm so glad that we have this chance to be with them! 

Our other investigators are doing great! Angela is still not sure what is stopping her from being baptized! We have challenged her to pray about it and she has many times but still feels that she isn't ready. We had a really good lesson with another less active family that their 9 year old daughter isn't baptized yet and so we are going to start teaching her!! 

       Thursday some other elders in our zone had 2 dinner appointments and lessons right after both so we said we could help them out and split with them. I was with Elder Mortensen and we went one of their dinners and then we went to our lesson. As we went to our lesson we were walking down the sidewalk in the housing and I saw Star.... Star is a very funny lady who yells at us every time we see her! She will tell us that we shouldn't be visiting people or just random funny things! Oh and she is most definitely on drugs.... One of my first transfers here she tried to spray us with her hose as she was watering.. Well this night we walked past and she was watering her lawn and side walk funny cause it was raining pretty hard... and I thought she might try and spray us so I walked off the sidewalk into the grass and didn't tell elder Mortensen.... I said hey Star and she quickly turned and said "I DON'T KNOW YOU!! HOW DO YOU KNOW MY NAME!!?!?" And then she sprayed elder Mortensen!! Elder Mortensen then realized that I was walking in the grass and he laughed and said you knew she would do that uh?? We got a really good laugh about that! Good thing she only got his ankle!

      

      Friday we were on exchanges with our zone leaders and I was with Elder Lee Chip Sao form Tahiti... We had some people in our area that I knew where from Tahiti and so I wanted to take him to see them. Well it worked out great! We got to see both of them and he ended up knowing their family! It turns out that one of them is a member!! She just didn't know what ward she was supposed to be in and where to go so now she knows! Pretty cool that we were only going to see them so he could talk to them in French and Tahitian and ended up finding out that they are members!! 

        We had a really good service project on Saturday all set up by the Just Serve program. It was at the Kakaako park where lots of homeless people live.. well we were all set to go and the night before a member called us and told us he had a lesson set for us at 9 am the next morning..... and the service started at 8 am.... He told us that this lesson was more important and that he couldn't reschedule it... We were pretty disappointed that we couldn't go but we ended up having a really good lesson and found another service project to do after.

       Things are going great her for us and having great success!! Thank you all so much for everything!! Hope you all have a great week! Hope to hear from you all soon!! 

Elder Gale

love doing Service

April 20th, 2015

Aloha,

    It's been another great week! 

So every Tuesday we have a correlation meeting with our ward mission leader and after we were done we went to our car and it had tape all over it! We didn't even have to think about who it was.... It was a sister in our ward that is always teasing us and playing jokes... Looks like we will have to get her back now;) 

    Our investigators are all doing great! Alex is doing great and still set for his baptism! It will be on May 16 so we are excited about that! 

We had a really good lesson with Angela and Sister Lupe was with us and she asked Angela.... What are you waiting for? Jus get baptized. We love how bold she is! Angela responded well I guess there is no reason for me to not to... So we left her with the challenge to pray about it! We are hoping and praying that she will feel she is ready! 

     So this Friday we had a pretty funny lesson... A less active member who is returning to church asked us to come teach his kids and a family friend of theirs. So we were excited and when we got to the lesson it ended up just being the family friend(Jimmy) and this brother.  We shared the Restoration with Jimmy and through the whole lesson the less active brother was trying so hard to help teach the lesson but he had no idea what he was saying. He kept saying very false things and so we had to fix those and that happened the whole lesson. Ha the funniest one he said was about the priesthood. He said there are different ranks and that he was at the priesthood rank right now and then he will go to the sacrament rank then to secretary and then Bishop.  We had to explain that we don't see the priesthood as ranks and that each priesthood calling is important and has its specific duties. Over all we felt like the spirit was there and helped Jimmy understand and hopefully not too confused. 

    Well things are going great here in Kalihi! I am loving my mission. I'm so grateful for my chance to serve and be a missionary! I hope we can all share the gospel and I know that we receive blessing for sharing! Thank you all so much for all you have done for me!! 

Elder Gale

Aloha, 

     This week was a great week for us. Transfers was Wednesday so now my companion is Elder Salazar. He is really awesome! Been out 6 months, from Alpine Utah. So far we have been great and doing good! We had a really awesome experience this past Friday, we taught the Legg family again and had a great lesson! So their 9 year old son Alex isn't baptized yet so we have been working towards that. Sister Legg was worried because Alex has ADHD and didn't know if he was ready for baptism. Well Elder Salazar shared with them that he too has ADHD and that they shouldn't worry about that. It was awesome to see the comfort that brought her! We invited them to set a baptism date for Alex and they accepted!!!! May 9th Alex will be baptized!! We are so excited for them and for their choice to have him baptized! 

    Our other investigators are doing pretty good. We finally got a hold of Robert so that was way nice and Angela is going to be less busy now that her kids don't have football. We are working with a couple families so we are pretty excited about that!! We are seeing so many awesome things happen here in Kalihi! 

       Saturday was pretty crazy!! We went from one service in the morning helping a family in our ward move and then straight to the preschool to do our regular service. At the preschool we have been fixing the playground equipment and that has been quite the process!! We finally have that done. We love being at the school and doing service for them!    

      Today for pday we went on a hike with our district, It's been too long since we have hiked! It was a cool hike and lead to a small waterfall. After we were done with the hike we came back to the chapel to play basketball with some of our members. 

    Well thank you all so much for everything! I am doing great and loving my mission! Cant wait to hear from you all soon!! 

Elder Gale

All my friends that left to go home this transfer

Elder Salazar & Elder Gale

Aloha,

      This week was a great week for us! We started teaching a family who has 2 unbaptized kids and they want them to get baptized! We are super excited for them! Our lessons with them are pretty funny! Alex is nine and he is all over the place and cant sit still, Matthew is 8 and really quiet so they are complete opposites! Their older brother Nephi was baptized a couple years ago and he really helps them understand the lessons! He remembers almost everything and so he can answer the questions we ask them. The last lesson we had with them they asked if we could cut hair, well my companion said oh yeah he can, he cut mine! So I ended up cutting all 3 of the boys hair. I guess it turned out pretty good, they were happy and told me I will have to cut it again before I leave!  Our other investigators are doing great, still haven't heard much from Robert and we are starting to think he is avoiding us but still praying for him and hoping that something will touch his heart! 

     So we were at one of our members houses and we received a call from our mission president but we missed it... He left us a voice mail and told us he had a referral for us! A member talked to him and said he has been praying for someone to share the gospel with and finally received the name of the person.... well this member already invited this friend to listen to the missionaries and that just so happened to be us! We are setting up a time to meet with him this week! Super excited to see what will happen! 

      Thursday we did our service project for the preschool... did it then instead of Saturday because of General conference. We did our regular things and then Aunttie Annette asked me to tell her what we should eat for lunch that day and the first thing I thought of was Navajo Tacos. Not even sure why. She had never heard of them so she said give me a list of what you need and then you can make it.... so she bought the ingredients and then I cooked it for the missionaries and for her family.... I was worried that they wouldn't like it but there was none left! Everyone liked it, they kinda thought it was weird but good.

     General conference was so awesome! For the Saturday morning session we watched it at our steak center. For the Saturday afternoon session we watched it with a member and after they made us hamburgers!! Sunday morning was awesome!! We watched both sessions with a Samoan member in our ward and she made us so much food!! Seemed like that was all we did Sunday was eat! Eat before the session, during the session and after! It is always so great to hear from our Prophet and Apostles! Always feels like they are speaking directly to you and their messages always teach us things that we should work on but at the same time bring so much hope to our lives that it doesn't matter as long as we have the hope and use the atonement! I loved Elder Bednars talk on Fear.... I love how he takes things that we think we know pretty good and puts it in a brand new way! He is so knowledgeable of the gospel and very strong speaker!

       Well I guess I will tell you (mom) what you have been waiting for... transfers are this week.....My companion will be leaving and I will be staying... Sad to see my companion leave after only a short time together but I know that our Heavenly father has a plan for us! My new companion will be Elder Salazar. Haven't heard too much about him and he is pretty new in the mission. I'm excited for this transfer and for the chance to get to know my new comp!

Thank you all so much for all you have done for me! Hope you have a great week! 

Elder Gale