Aloha Everyone:

 

    This week has been great. Our investigators are all doing good and we have a baptism coming up this Saturday..... We are very excited for that!

 

    This Sunday was pretty crazy.... There was like no one at church, but it sounds like there basically wasn't even a Superbowl game, but O well.... Our neighbors had a huge party and we couldn't even get to our house because there were so many cars.  They brought us over so much food so we were good with it!

 

     Today for p-day was awesome!! We went on a hike with our zone and it was so cool!!  We hiked right along the beach and it was a very nice hike. The scenery was great and part of the hike was on sand and so we got to "kind of" be on the beach hahah close enough! We had a great time!

 

We had a great week with our investigators! They are all progressing great and we have a lot of work to do and it keeps us busy and that is the way we like it!! I hope you all are having a great week! I love to hear from you thank you so much for everything! Sorry the email is kinda short this week! Not much time! Have a great week.

 

Elder Gale

P-Day Hike Along The Beach

Elder Gale & Elder Young Yen 

Hawaiian Wildlife

Now We Can Shoot Hoops At Home

Free Basketball Hoop

P-Day Fun "Aloha"

Aloha Everyone!

     It has been another great week! Things are looking great in our area! We hit a little slow spot for a while but now it is picking up again and our investigators are doing great.  Nicole is still set for Feb. 8th and guess who finally came to church!!! YES the Tuias came.  We were so surprised when they walked through the door that I nearly fell off my seat. We were so excited that they finally made it a priority to come.  Niphae needs to come a couple more times to church and then he can get baptized!  We are shooting for Feb. 22 with him.  We also had a new investigator brought to church by a member and she seems like she is pretty interested and are so excited to see where see goes with the gospel.  Kaili also came to church and the great thing was that we were unable to have a lesson with him this past week but he still came on his own.  It makes it a lot easier on us when our investigators want to come on their own!  We are so excited to have things picking back up and are working extra hard to help each investigator progress.  We were finally able to talk to Destiny and Caleb's mom about teaching them and she wants us to slowly work with them and wants to sit in on the lessons with us.  That is a huge step forward and things are looking good and I am loving this area!

     We have had some crazy weather the past couple days.... it has rained so much and it has been super windy!  The ocean is super crazy right now.... the waves are huge. One of our members told us that the waves were getting up to 30 feet!  With all of the wind and rain it really cools us down and you will all laugh but it really does get cold here at nights haha!! Nothing like Utah, but still pretty cold for here.

     Our Temple trip was today and it was way fun.  We had to wake up at 4 am to make it to the Temple on time because we are on the exact opposite side of the island so  it took us some time to get there with the traffic. We had a great time at the Temple!

    Well I hope you are all having a great week! I love all of you so much! Thank you for all that you have done for me!  I hope to hear from you soon.

Elder Gale

Elder Gale & Elder Young Yen at the Temple

Beautiful Hawaii

Zone Temple Trip

Makeshift Weight Equipment

Hang Loose 

Aloha everyone:

   This has been a great week! Our investigators are all doing great! Nicole is still set for Feb 8th and we are way excited for her. Niphae is still the same just needs to come to church.... We are working with a new investigator named Todd. We havent been able to catch him for a while but we ended up having a great lesson on the Restoration with him and he loved it.

    This week for p-day we were able to do a service project as a zone for a family that had their gym burned down..... It was so sad! Everything that they had was gone.  All burned to the ground and we helped them move out and clean what was left and they were so happy for our help. They are a great christian family and loved to have us there! Their gym trains MMA fighters and they had a big fight coming up this week but now they have no place to train. They said that God will provide a way for them to accomplish what needs to be done. We had a great time helping and talking with them!  

    We had a very cool experience happen this Sunday! We had a man and a women show up for church and we thought that they were members.... We got to talking with them and they are not! But they want to take the lessons and be baptized! They loved church and want to keep coming back! We are way excited to see what happens with them!

    Well I hope you all have a great week and thank you so much for everything! I love and miss you and hope to hear from you soon.

Elder Gale

Zone Service Project

Aloha Everyone:

      This has been another great week! We had some really cool things happen. We had a lesson with our investigator Nicole and we invited her to be baptized and she accepted. Her husband just quit smoking and he will be ready to baptize her on Feb. 8.  She is excited that he will be able to baptize her and is very ready!!

       We also have a new investigator named Kaili, he is 19 and is dating a member.... he is very interested in the church and wants to learn more. We were able to share how we got the Book of Mormon and the Restoration with him and he loved it. He said that he wants to learn more and wants to keep meeting with us.

        Our other investigators are still about the same and Niphae still just needs to make it to church.  Destiny and Caleb are still unable to get baptized because their mom won't let them.... We are working so hard to try and help these investigators progress and to be able to be baptized! Things are going great in this area with so much potential and so many people to teach.  I am glad that I am training because that means that I will most likely get to stay in this area for 3 months.  I am loving it here and will be sad when I have to leave....

      Well I hope you all are having a great week and I love all of you and hope to hear from you soon. Thank you so much for everything you have done for me!

Elder Gale

Zone P-Day Fun

Aloha everyone!

     This has been a very crazy week! Tuesday was transfers and I had to drive in, drop of missionaries that were getting transferred and pick up the new Elders coming into our zone. Then later at night I drove in to get my new companion Elder Young Yen..... He just flew in from the MTC and we had a training with President Warner..... After the Training we drove back to our area and he was able to unpack his things and since it was new years eve we had a party with our zone. We were able to stay up until 1 am to watch fireworks. What a crazy first night in the mission field for Elder Young Yen!! Wednesday we had the whole day off so we got to just hang out with our zone and have fun!

    Thursday was a great day! We went over to talk to Kekoa and earlier in the week we asked him to read the Book of Mormon and to pray if he should be baptized! When we got there Thursday I asked him if he was able to do it and he said that he did!  I asked how he felt and he looked at me and said, "I feel like I want to get baptized!!!" I couldn't believe what he said and I had to ask him to say it again. We said that is awesome and asked when he wanted to get baptized and he said this Saturday! So we started making phone calls and got everything set up and this past Saturday Kekoa was baptized!!!!! I was so excited that he was finally able to decide that he wanted to be baptized. I know that the spirit was able to touch his heart and tell him what he needed to do. This Sunday he was given the Gift of the Holy Ghost and confirmed a member. Later on at church he was ordained to a Priest in the Aaronic Priesthood. This was an amazing experience for me to watch him take these steps in his life!

     We are having lots of success in this area and have so many people to teach and we have some other investigators who are so close to baptism.  I am loving this area and our ward here in Nanakuli and the people are so amazing and humble.  I am very grateful for this chance to be here serving the people of Hawaii! I hope all of you are having a great week so far and a great new year and I love all of you and hope to hear from you soon!

Love

Elder Gale

Kekoa's Baptism

Elder Gale & Kekoa

Elder Gale, Kekoa & Elder Rigby

Aloha Everyone!

     Sorry it is so late but today has been a crazy day!! We had 2 service projects today and it left us with little time to email! We laid concrete for a family in our ward and it was way fun! They are a new family that just moved in and needed help at their new house. The other project was for sister Lew... We moved some palets for her and then she gave us smoothies and coconuts to crack open.

     This week has been super crazy!  I found out on Friday that I will be training a brand new missionary and his name is Elder Yen and I will be picking him up on Tuesday. The crazy thing is that I will have to drive from Makakilo all the way to Honolulu by myself! I am excited and nervous to train but it will be a great experience!  My current companion Elder Rigby is getting in zone, in ward transferred!! So he will be staying here which is super cool!

     As far as our investigators they are all doing great! We met with Nicole Barcarse and she is doing awesome, she is wanting to get baptized when her husband can baptize her.... We are working on word of wisdom with him and it is going good... he should be ready with in a couple of weeks.  Kekoa is still good he has prayed and read his book of mormon and is still searching for his answer for baptism! He is so so close! As soon as he feels ready he can get baptized. We have hit a really slow spot with Destiny and Caleb, their mom still doesn't want them to get baptized...... But we are still trying to work with her and solve her worries. Niphae Tuia is another investigator that is super close.... his parents are both members and want him baptized. The only problem they have is they cant make it to church and they need to come before he can be baptized. Those are our main investigators that we are working with and we have a couple more that we are working with as well.....

On Tuesday they had all of us who are training come to the presidents home in Honolulu. The trainers got there early and then we went into the back room and waited, then they read a paper of where they will be serving and who will be their trainer and then we walked out one by one... It was a way awesome experience!  Elder Yen is from Samoa and has been in the MTC for 6 weeks.  He speaks pretty good English for as long as he has been there.  

 I hope all of you are having a great new years and I hope to hear from you all very soon! Thank you so much for everything! I love all of you have a great week!!

Elder Gale

Helping members lay concrete

We love doing service

I will miss Elder Rigby

Hawaii is always beautiful

Elder Yen & Elder Gale

Aloha everyone,

      This has been an ok week....... We had a baptism scheduled for Sunday Dec. 22 for Kekoa and everything was looking great untill the night before and then he all of a sudden told us that he didn't want to be baptized...... We were so disappointed! He was so excited and we dont know what changed. He told us that he wants to keep coming to church and meeting with us but wants to keep looking for other churches too..... We are hoping for the best! We really think he just needs some friends at church to encourage him.

        We had a surprise mission tour with Elder Richards of the quorum of the 70 this Friday and it was way good.... Our mission president and Elder Richards really stressed obedience in the mission and want to have a really obedient mission. We were each interviewed by President and Elder Richards which was kind of intimidating but went really well! Elder Richards is a very nice guy and wants to help our mission out in any way he can.  

        Other than that our week has been pretty normal! We are still working with lots of investigators and a couple of them are so close to baptism. The area is doing really good and I love working with the people here!

I hope everyone has a great Christmas Holiday! This is one of the best times of the year to remember our savior and what he has done for us. I hope we can all remember the true meaning of Christmas. I love all of you and cant wait to hear from you! Merry Christmas and Aloha!

Elder Gale

Best Christmas present ever.....

Aloha everyone!!!!

      This has been a great week! We had zone conference on Tuesday and it was very long, but it was a great conference.   We met with Destiny and Caleb this week to get their baptism all lined out and everything looked good, but then at the last minute their mom changed her mind and said they can't get baptized...... they are so disappointed! We are trying to teach the mom to see if that will change her mind, but she works like 3 jobs and is always gone. The kids still want to be baptized we just need the mom to say ok.... We are hoping that things will go good for them!

   

     Kekoa is doing great and his baptism is scheduled for this week Sunday(Dec. 22). He is way excited to be baptized and he is ready. He loves to have us over and you can tell that he feels the spirit!.Nicole is another one of our investigators and she is doing great! Her husband is a member and she wants him to baptize her. He is working toward that goal and he just quite smoking and things are looking great for them!

     We are teaching lots of people and so many of them are so close to baptism! These people are so great and so willing to listen to us! We have an awesome ward that wants to help us with the work. 

Yesterday we had the opportunity to help a member in our ward set up her Christmas tree and it was so much fun because she just let us go for it..... We thought we were going to miss out on decorating but I guess not! She had an extra tree that she let us borrow and now it is in our pad!

Things are going great here the weather is still hot and it has been raining a lot! I am so grateful for the opportunity to be here in Hawaii and to serve a mission! I love all of you and hope you have a great holiday season and hope to hear from you soon!

Love

Elder Gale 

Our "little" Christmas tree

Lunch at the beach park

Our members tree ( I think we did OK)

Christmas in Hawaii

Hawaii is beautiful

We have a great view

Sleeping by the tree for a few nights

Aloha everyone!

It has been a great week! We have had lots happening and we are working really hard! We have had some great lessons with our investigators this week. Caleb and Destiny are doing great and they have been coming to church every week and are all set to be baptized. We just need to find a time when their parents can make it. They know what we are teaching them is true and they are so excited. Destiny is so so smart. She is 11 and we can ask her any question and she knows it. We have run out of things to teach them and they know when we teach them the same lesson over again. They are so ready for their baptism!

We had a lesson with Nephi Tuia and he is doing great and wants to be baptized but he hasn't made it to church yet. He is ready as soon as he comes!  Kekoa is doing great and he is wanting to be baptized and he came to church again and he loved it. We are hoping to have his baptism on Dec. 22.

It has been a crazy week. We had a goal to teach 28 lessons this week and we were able to teach 22 which is still great. Our bikes broke and we had to spend lots of time fixing them so that slowed us down! We ended up having to walk for one full day and it was super hard to make all of our appointments but we still had a great week. Earlier in the week we were biking and Elder Rigby crashed hard, but was just fine and he had some pretty gnarly road rash..... And then later on in the week he crashed again..... we had a rough week with the bikes..... We ended up having to re-build an axel, flat tires, broken chains and all that kind stuff......

Things are great and I really love it here! The members are taking great care of us and the work is great.  We have so many investigators who are close to baptism and we know that they are ready and that they will be baptized.  I hope you all have a great week and I would love to hear from you all! Thank you so much for everything!!

Elder Gale

The members are so good to us!

On foot.....broken bikes!

Aloha everyone,

This has been a great week! I am loving the new area and things are going great here! We have so many investigators that are progressing and want to be baptized. We are teaching 3 kids in the same family (Destiny, Kaleb and Krishana). Destiny and Kaleb have come to church and have a baptismal date for Dec. 22.  They are supper excited and wanted to be baptized earlier but they needed to come to church first. When we told them that they had to wait till the 22nd they were kind of mad but, I guess that shows that they are really committed.  Krishana is real close too, but she just hasn't made it to church.....

One of our other investigators named Nicole just got married so she can be baptized. Our Bishop challenged her to be baptized in Dec. at her wedding.... And she accepted!  She has been taught all the lessons, the only thing holding her back was that she wasn't married but now she is clear.

We are also working with some other investigators (Nephi, Kekoa, Milli, Sarah and Kelly) they are all doing great and are working for baptism.  We have so much work to do in this area and so many people that are willing to listen to us!  The people here are so nice and love to talk with us.  Our ward mission leader is Tavo Tupola and he played football for the University of Utah and in the NFL for the Houston Texans.  He and I hit it off great. (Go Utes)  

On Thanksgiving we had 2 dinners. We ate with The Gilbert family and also the Kaloha family. Both of these families are awesome! We had plenty of food that's for sure and we loved being with the members. Thanksgiving was like another p-day for us and it was good to just hang out and have nothing to worry about!

Our zone went to Pearl Harbor this week as well and it was the same service over again, but it was still way fun! We also got to see the U.S.S Utah Memorial this time and it was cool to see the ship and to learn what happened to it and the history behind it.

This week it rained so much and this side of the island hardly ever gets rain! But for the past 3 days it has poured and we have been biking in it and we get drenched.  It was kind of fun at first but then when we were soaked and the wind was blowing it made it kind of cold, but nothing like you guys have in Utah but cold for here!  This area has lots of dirt so when it rains it all turns to mud and the back of our shirts get all muddy and wet! 

Everything is going great here! I love to hear how you guys are doing and to hear what is going on. I hope to hear from you all real soon and have a great week! I love all of you!! 

Love Elder Gale

Elder Gale and Elder Rigby

Service at Pearl Harbor

Sunset in Hawaii

I love it here

Do I have something on my back???

New friend