My new address:
Elder Tanner Gale
92-1021 No'u St. Apt #105
Kapolei, HI 96707


Aloha everyone,

        Well sorry the email came so late today!! Been super busy today! We ended up going with most of the elders and our sisters in our zone to the beach park with one of the wards to BBQ and play volleyball. There was so many people out at the beach for Memorial day! We had a really great time playing at the beach park and then we ate choke good food! Then we played basketball with some elders! So been a great first pday back here in Makakilo!! 

          So my new companion Elder Miller is the bomb! We are having lots of fun together and getting lots of work done!! We cover two wards so we stay very busy and never really a down time! It is really cool to be here in Makakilo and Kapolei since I know lots of the members here. It was awesome to see their reactions when I showed up for church, they were surprised that I was back! Supper cool to be back to see them! In our pad we have four of us living there so it is always fun and crazy! Elder Juan and Elder Edwards are the other two elders and Elder Juan goes home with me so that is pretty cool to be with him!   

        We had a really cool experience, one of our members asked us to come teach some kids at her work... she works at the Youth Challenge. The youth challenge is basically like the military for youth, they go and get lots of experience and learn lots! So we got to go in and teach any of them that wanted to come and join... well we ended up having around 30 kids from ages 13 to 18 come in and we had a lesson about the Gospel of Jesus Christ! Was a super cool experience and some of them were really interested! We are excited to help these youth and to see what we can do to share the gospel with them! 

         Things are going great for me here and still loving every minute of my mission!! Cant believe that it has gone so fast!! Well thank you all so much for all you do for me!! Love and miss you all! Have a great rest of your memorial day!! 

Elder Gale

Sister Smith & Elder Gale

New companion Elder Miller

May 18, 2015

Aloha Everyone,

     Well this week was a great week for us! Our investigator Alex got baptized this Saturday! His baptism was so awesome and we had lots of support from our ward to help him! Alex was so happy for his baptism and so ready! Every time we would go over to teach them the kids would all want to wear our watches, so for the baptism I gave each of the 4 kids their own watch and they were so excited! We love this family and so happy for them! 

         This past Friday we went on splits with our ward mission leader and his dad. It was a great split! I was with his dad and we were able to see our investigator Robert. He was doing so great and very solid and then we lost contact with him.... well we were able to talk with him for about 10 minutes and at first he didn't really want us there. Right before we left he said I know I need you guys to keep coming back. He told us he had been struggling a lot with word of wisdom and that his life wasn't going so well but that just having us there with him made him feel so much better! He invited himself to church and accepted a blessing!  

     We also got to see our other investigator Pua, she has been struggling a lot lately too and we were able to give her a blessing as well and she said it made her feel a lot better! It was so cool to be able to get to see both of these investigators because we hadn't been able to for a while! 

         We found out about transfers this week... and I will be leaving. I'm going back to Makakilo to be in the Makakilo and Kapolei wards... so yes I already served in Makakilo and Kapolei ward was my 3rd ward that I was in, so i'm pretty excited to go back and see the ward again! I will be the zone leader for my last transfer. My new companion is Elder Miller. Don't know too much about him yet but I'm sure things will go great for us! I am excited for the new change and its crazy that it is my last transfer!! 

     Well things are going great for me here in Hawaii!! Loving my mission and loving serving the people here!! Thank you all so much for all you do for me I really appreciate it! Hope to hear from you all soon! Have a great week! 

Elder Gale

Elder Gale & Alex

Aloha,

        This was a great week for us!! So Alex is still doing great and we are so excited for his baptism this Saturday! He has finished all his lessons and is already to go! He is very excited and cant wait for his baptism! Our other investigators are doing good! We found six new people to teach this week so that helps a lot! And we have received some great referrals from members! Things are looking great for our area and we are seeing so many miracles and lots of work to do! 

        We went on an exchanges with some elders in our district cause one of them is really struggling to stay motivated and want to work.... all he wants to do is to do service all week. Service is great when we do it along with our regular missionary work. So he came into my area with me and my companion went to his area. Just on that day of the exchange they were able to get a lot of work done in the area and it really helped this young missionary gain back the motivation and showed him that there is still work to do.  

So another funny experience with my district...... So on Sunday nights our district reports their numbers to me then I have to get them to the zone leaders and they told us to get the numbers by 8:30pm. Well one of the companionship in our district wasn't getting their numbers in and it was taking till around 10pm to get them to do it. So finally we had to tell them that if they don't get them in they would count for 0 and not get to change them.... well 9:00pm rolled around and still nothing from them so I had to report their numbers as 0. That was the first time I have had to do that, but hopefully they will be better from here on out.

       Well Saturday was a very busy day for us. We had a service project in the morning and we cut and trimmed trees and things for a member and his neighbors. It was a really good service project and our whole elders quorum was able to come and help. After the service they had a huge BBQ which was awesome. Then we got to Skype our family for mothers day. Had to do it Saturday because we weren't able to on Sunday. It was awesome to see family and to talk with them!! So crazy that it was my last call home and made me realize that is going fast! Not too sure I'm ready to come home other than to see my family of course!

       So Church was pretty interesting for us! About half way through the sacrament meeting Brother Finau was speaking and he called my companion and I up to speak!! So he does this to all the missionaries when he speaks in their wards cause he is a High council speaker. It was really cool what he had us do. He had us help him tell a story about a job interview. The job description made it sound like no one would want this job and he began to list off things that the job required; No vacation, no holidays, no weekends, only can take a lunch when your associates have eaten first, have some type of degree in medicine, and many other things. He said that 24 people applied for the job and that there would be no pay. Almost at once everyone that had applied said they no longer wanted the job. He then said that even with this job description that Billions of people hold this job today and it is the mothers! It was a really cool way to introduce mothers day and made everyone realize how much mothers have to deal with and go through. So all we had to do was be the 24 people that applied and respond to what he said and he made things for us to say that were pretty funny! 

       I hope you all had a very good mothers day!! Thank you to all of you for all you have done for me! Thank you the most to my mom!! Your the best! I'm very glad to have you in my life and love you very much!! Hope you all have a great week! Hope to hear from you all soon!!

Elder Gale

My district ( I am the district leader)

May 4th, 2015

Aloha,

      Well its been another great week for us! We had our zone conference this past Tuesday and that is always a great time and we enjoy seeing President and Sister Warner along with some of the other missionaries! This zone conference was a crazy one for me! Because it was my last one!!!!!!!! Cant believe that is came that fast! So for the last zone conference they have you give your dying (finishing) testimony, and then they have all of the missionaries that its their last one stand up in front and they sing Aloha Oe which is basically talking about last goodbye so that was pretty weird!! All in all it was a great conference and I'm sad that it is my last!! 

        Things with our investigators are going great! Still working with Alex towards May 16 for his baptism and he is doing great and almost ready! We are very excited for him and his family! Thank you all for the prayers form him I know that it has been helping them! 

     We had a really good week finding some new people to teach and that is always nice! There is so much work for us to do in our area and it keeps us busy! 

      We went on an exchange with our zone leaders this week and I was with Elder Bergstrom in his area. That day turned out to be a great day!! We had lots of success and ended up finding a new person that wants to get baptized for them! We committed the lady to be baptized and she accepted and then she said will you guys come with my family tonight for family night? So we said yes... well they ended up taking us laser tagging! It was so awesome of them and we had lots of fun! They had their 4 kids there and they paid for us to have unlimited and so we got to play with the kids for as long as we wanted! Really cool way to fellowship with their family! 

      Well things are going great for me here in Kalihi! Loving my mission and having a great time!! Thank you all so much for all you have done for me! hope you all have a great week!! 

Elder Gale