May 12th, 2014

Aloha Everyone:

     I hope you all had a great mothers day. It was awesome to talk to my family yesterday. Thank you to all of you that came over to talk to me I love all of you.

      This has been a good week. We were able to go with some of our investigators to watch them dance hula this past Saturday. It was really cool to see all of the members and investigators that we know dancing. After it was over we were invited to eat with the hula halau. We went to a Chinese restraint but it wasn't really Chinese. It was way more Hawaiian (haha) huge proportions and so much food!! We had a great time being with our investigators.

      So my companion was sick all Saturday night and all of Sunday.... That made working really hard. He did get to Skype his family so that was great. He is feeling a lot better now and should be good.

     Not much else has changed. Everything is still going great. Loving every minute of my mission. Our investigators are all doing great and working towards their baptism dates. We are really excited for them and hope everything will work our for them. Please keep them in you prayers.

      Well I hope all of you have a great week. I love you and cant wait to hear from you all!!

Elder Gale

We are going to the hookie  lau

Aloha Everyone:

       This has been another great week and I am getting used to this new ward and it is really good.  The people here like always are great and we have some awesome investigators! We are working with 3 people that have a baptism date, they are Jeremy, Jessica, and Cheremie... they are all going great and ready for their baptisms.  There is a lot of work in our ward which makes it much easier on us because we stay really busy.

   So transfers are this week and I will be staying in Makakilo Zone in the Kapolei Ward.... So not too much will change for me and there are lots of new elders coming into our zone this transfer.  I think about half of our zone will change, but it will be good!

Well sorry it is kind of short.. things are going great here.  Our zone is going bowling for p-day later today so that will be fun... I love all of you... Thank you so much for everything and hope you all have a great week!

Elder Gale

New Address:

92-1136 Panana St #309

Kapolei, HI 96707

Aloha Everyone:

     This week has been a very interesting and crazy week for me! So there was an Elder in my zone that was leaving this past Friday to go home cause he was done with his mission.... well when he left there was no one to replace him in his area. President Warner called and asked me to move over with Elder Gardner for the next couple of weeks until transfers on May 7th.  So I am now in the Kapolei ward... Since there were 4 Elders in my last ward they are now in a tri-companionship until transfers as well... So it has been a big change, but things are going good.  I love Elder Gardner and we get along great.  It will be very interesting to see what will happen when transfers come... I could still end up leaving or I could end up staying in this new area.... Which ever way will be great!

     Other than getting transferred it is pretty much the same.  Things are still going great here.  Today for p-day we went on a hike to Kaena Point which was the second time I have done it and it is an awesome hike!  We had lots of fun.  Well I hope everything is going great for all of you and I hope you all have a great week! I love you so much thank you for everything!  Hope to hear from you all soon!

Elder Gale

Tuias Family

Elder Gale & Natalia (our ward mission leader's daughter)

Kaena Point

Our ward mission leader's family

Our P-day hike to Kaena Point

Aloha Everyone:

    This week was very slow for us... Everyone that we went to see was either gone, busy or doing things with their families......We did get to do a service project for a less active lady in our ward. We went to her house at 8 Am and she feed us a huge breakfast!! Then we finally got doing the service around 9.  We took care of her whole yard for her, mowed the lawn, weeded flower beds and all that good stuff and we got it all done and she wanted to feed us again. We had other appointments to get to so we told her we had to leave... We love doing service for our members they always feed us and treat us great! 

     Today was a great day! Our zone had our temple trip and it was awesome.  We had a great session and after we went to eat as a zone... we ate at a place called 7 brothers, it is a really awesome burger place.  They have awesome food and we got to talk with other missionaries that are now serving in the Laie Zone so that was really cool!  The drive back is always the best because in the morning on the way it is still dark so you don't get to see much, but on the way back you can see all of the North Shore so it is always a fun ride home! 

    Other than that things are going great!  Loving every minute of my mission!  Thank you all for everything you all have done for me and I hope you are all having a great week and I hope you all had a great Easter! I love you guys and  hope to hear from you soon!

Elder Gale

Visitor Center Sisters

Elder Gale & Elder Young Yen

Zone Temple Trip

Elder Gale & Elder Gardner

Aloha Everyone: 

    We had a great week!  Wednesday we went to Pearl Harbor to do service with our zone and it was awesome.  Me and a couple of the other Elders kinda got lost and ended up in a new part of the ship we had never seen before. but it was awesome! We got to see the Captains room and all of the Sargent rooms... we ended up finding the Eagles nest on accident but that was the best part!  After the service was over we ate together as a zone and found out that an Elder in our zone had to go home early.... He was in a big bike crash about 6 months ago and the doctors finally told him he needed to go home.... He was honorably released but it was sad because he didn't want to leave! 

    So something crazy happened this week.  So there are four of us in the same ward, we are on bikes and the other 2 elders have a car... well they live in a crazy part of Nanakuli and in the middle of the night their licence plate and their safety inspection sticker was cut out of their bumper!!! So now they drive around with a hole in the bumper and if a cop pulls them over they have a "get out of jail free card" that a police officer gave them, crazy and super funny!

    This past Friday our whole mission did a car fast... Where everyone in the mission parked the cars and walked for the day... Well that didn't change too much for us because we are on bikes. We went on an exchange that day as well with our zone leaders... I was able to stay in my area. We had a great exchange and while we were tracting one of the places that we have never tracted before and it was crazy because 5 houses in a row wanted us to come back and teach them.  I have never had that happen before so it was cool! 

      Our investigators are great! The Tuia's are great! We were able to watch a session of General Conference with them and they loved it.  They are still on track for Niphae's baptism on the 3rd of May.  All of the other people we are teaching are good still working hard to help them!

    Well I hope you all have a great week and I love all of you and I am so grateful for all of you in my life! Thank you so much for all that you have done for me! 

Love

Elder Gale

Mahalo

Rainbow Warriors

USS Bowfin WWII Submarine at Pearl Harbor

Beach Walk

Aloha everyone:

     This was a great week! Our investigators are all doing great! We are working so hard to help them progress.  Well Niphae Tuia has a baptismal date now so we are working extra hard with him to get him ready for it this time.  Other than that they are all doing good but just about the same as last week.

     Conference was awesome!  So we watched the first Saturday session at our chapel and when we got there it wasn't even set up and when they got it set up it didn't work.  We sat there for 30 minutes or longer waiting to see if they would fix it or not..... Finally they got it to work but it was in Samoan and we missed all but the last speaker.  So for the first session It was very interesting cause we had no idea what was going on.  For the second Saturday session it was working in English so it was great.  We then had a service project for one of our investigators so we missed the live time for the priesthood session but we got to watch it on the re-broadcast.  Sunday was great, Elder Young Yen has some family in our ward and they invited us to come and watch the Sunday sessions with them.  We watched the first, then they fed us a huge breakfast.  It was Samoan pancakes and they were awesome!  Then while the second session was going they were making more food for lunch.  After the session was over they had so much food for us to eat and we were still full from the first meal.  Well they made lots of Samoan food and it was awesome!! I really love the Samoan food, I think my companion is rubbing off on me.  Conference was great and I love watching it as a missionary because I feel like I get so much more from it! Ha probably because we actually stay awake!  I hope you all enjoyed watching conference.

     Things are great here I am loving it.  The weather is still about the same and yes there was a big tsunami warning but nothing even happened.  So not too much to worry about! Thank you all for everything you all do for me! I love all of you and hope all is going well.

Love,

 Elder Gale

Click on the link below to watch a video

http://youtu.be/br-xI9L9EJI

Elder Young Yen and Elder Gale looking down on Waianae

WW II Bunker

The Road We Bike Everyday

Inside The Bunker

Our Area

Aloha Everyone:

     This week was a very slow week for us... everyone we went to see were gone and all of our set lessons ended up falling through.  That's ok this next week will be better.  Our investigators are about the same, they are all doing very good just got to get them to come to church.  Our ward mission leader started something that is really cool.  When members sign up to feed us they have the option if they would like us to have a family home evening with them the same night... it works out great! We get to invite our investigators to come and they can invite friends to come as well.  We are hoping that this will increase our investigators interests and as well as helping members get more involved in missionary work!

    One day this week was a very funny day.  Elder Young Yen and I were out trying to see people and we went to this house that has a very mean dog.  Well we didn't see the dog so we thought we were safe, as we were standing at the door the dog came behind us and my companion didn't say anything until the dog was about a foot from my leg and he just laughed cause he thought it was funny! (the dog didn't actually bite me, but close) Then later on the same day we were biking down the main road and he said something to me so I looked back to see what he said and while doing that I hit a pole... The best part was that in mid air I got off the bike, grabbed the bike put it back on the ground and then jumped right back on and continued to ride.  All as a big semi truck drove by, they honked the horn and waved.  I about died twice but it was a very funny day.  (Mom didn't think it was funny)

       So my district got changed up a little bit, I still have the Samoan ward Elders but then I know have the Kalaeloa Elders in our district.... Our district is for sure the best.  We have great Elders that are all ready to work hard so it makes my job easy!

     Things are going great here and our area is doing good and the people here are great!  I will be sad when I have to leave!  I hope you are all having a great week and thank you so much for everything! Love you all!!

Elder Gale 

Aloha Everyone:

    This week was a hard but good week. To start off Charles who was supposed to be baptized this past Saturday is gone.... we have no idea where he is and he won't answer our calls... So his baptism didn't happen.... On better news we went to talk to someone that we have been trying to see for quite a while and they were gone as usual but I saw this random guy sitting by himself and I felt like we should talk to him... Well he just moved here from Oregon and was meeting with missionaries there working to be baptized!  He still wants to be baptized and have us teach him...It was so cool to see that we needed to be in that area for that reason! Also he said he knows an Elder White in Oregon!! So I'm not sure if it is Elder White from Beaver or not but it could be... Our other investigators are doing good. Kaili is still good just waiting to move out so he can be baptized! Niphae still hasn't made it to church but we are working so hard to help them!

     At our dinner last night we ate with a new family in our ward... The Evans family... Ha yes they are white... I forget how white people eat... Such small proportion's hahah!! But the food was great just not as much as we are used to eating!  Also at dinner we found out that they lived in St. George for a couple years.  Brother Evans worked at Sportsman's Warehouse and he asked if I knew the Osborns... HAHA he was surprised when I told him that I am related.  He knows Josh and worked with him, what a small world.

     So now for the news that you all (HAHAH more just my mom) have been waiting for.... transfers.  Well we got the news last night and it is a crazy transfer.  President Warner is switching up everything! Usually the transfers are somewhat normal well not really anymore.  Our zone has 2 Elders with in zone transfers, and one companionship of 3 Elders that will be together for 4 weeks, then when an Elder goes home mid-transfer one of the Elders in the companionship of 3 will go with the other Elder.  Very confusing but I guess it will all work out.  Well as for me and my companion we will be staying in our area together so nothing will change for us... I am excited to stay for at least one more transfer because we have lots of work left here.

    Things are going great here and I am loving the time I have to serve the Lord.  Hawaii is so awesome and I just love it.  Thank you for everything you all have done for me and hope you all have a great week.  

Love

Elder Gale 

Aloha Everyone:

This has been a great week!  Nothing has really changed too much with our investigators.. they are doing good Charles is getting baptized this upcoming Saturday, but other than that everything is going about the same with our investigators.

Today for p-day we went on a hike with our zone and it was awesome.... we hiked to what is called the Icey-Ponds... it was water falls and pools of water that we of course couldn't get in... the hike was great and we had a lot of fun!

Transfers are coming up and it will be very interesting to see what will happen... Elder Young Yen and I will be done with our training so anything can happen.  I am really hoping that I get to stay because I love this area and I love Elder Young Yen,  but whatever happens will be great.

I hope everyone is having a great week and I love all of you and hope to hear from you soon.  Sorry it is short this week and I don't have much time to email... Love all of you have a great week!

Elder Gale

P-Day Hike

Icey Ponds (They don't look so icey)

Tarzan

Aloha Everyone!

      It has been another great week! We taught a nice new family that are really nice and very willing to listen to us.  They are good friends with a member that lives in our area and he has been helping us out.  They love us to come over and teach them and their names are Vinnie and Mary Ann Gaea.... (ya try and pronounce that one).   Our other investigators are good, but we had to stop teaching Niphae Tuia... We have taught him every lesson I think  3 times and they just will not come to church. So we won't be teaching them until they show that having Niphae baptized is a priority in their lives.   It is so sad because we love their family, but they need to be willing to change and progress.... Charles is doing great he is still quit smoking and is still all set for his baptism on March 22!! Kaili is wanting to be baptized so bad and at our last lesson we invited him to say the closing pray and in his prayer he asked if he could be baptized soon.  We are doing all we can to help him... He just needs to find a place to move so he isn't living at his girlfriends house anymore.... It might take some time but he will be baptized. We also got a refferal to go see the Foma'i family.  They are a family of 13 and are from Samoa so it is perfect having Elder Young Yen to talk with them.  They are a great family and very open to listen to us.  Probably because my Samoan companion.....

     We had our zone conference this past Tuesday and it was awesome.  We were able to hear from President Warner and the AP's... and was a really good day.  The best part was that the Maili Kai Samoan Ward provided food for lunch.... So much food and they just kept bringing it to us and telling all 50 missionaries to eat.  Sister Warner was kind of freaking out because she wants us to all eat healthy and not gain weight, but its kind of hard when there are language wards involved.....they feed us so much and they feel like feeding the missionaries is a blessing for them and their families.

      The weather here is still really rainy and we get drenched almost everyday while we are out biking.  It will be super hot, and then rain,  then it just repeats all day.  Everything here is going great and I am so grateful for my chance to be here in Hawaii serving the Lord on my mission.  The people here are awesome and I love serving them.  Thank you all so much for everything and I hope you all have a great week!  Love you!

Elder Gale

Click on link below to view Youtube Video

http://youtu.be/IEpFG0uSYE0

Zone Conference

P-Day Cave Exploring

Mom sent me her muffins ready to mix, only one problem we didn't have a bowl big enough

They turned out great anyway

Raining in Hawaii