December 8th

Aloha Everyone

      Well what a week! We have had a crazy week. My companion was transferred, sad to see him go I will miss him for sure but that how it is! My new comp is Elder Luke from Heber Utah... he is awesome and we are getting along great! He is super quite but once I get him to talk he is great! He loves sports so that makes it nice! We have lots in common!

      We did a service project with some of the other Elders... We helped them with one of their members at his farm! This member got injured at his job and cant do a lot of the things he needs done on the farm so we go help him! His farm is a lot different than the ones I'm used to back home! Lots less land and everything is so close! We helped him mow his grass around his barn... He has a lawn at his farm! Then he has two horses, we feed them and ran them in his pen for him then let them lose to graze in the field.... Mucked the stalls and then made a fence for him! Being there made me miss the farm and doing that kind of work!! 

       Our investigators are great! Slowly but surely they are coming along! We met a high school Junior, his name is Dane Utu.... He knows lots about the Church and has good Friends that are members! We are excited to get to work with him and see where things go! 

        Yesterday was mission tour! All of Oahu got together and Elder Dallin Johnsten of the 70 came and was there with us! He is a very funny guy! He had all the wards on the island bring at least one representative to the meeting with us.... He directed his message towards the members and how they can better help the missionaries! He made it really fun always making jokes and having a good time! He had all of us break up with our person from our ward and he asked us to teach a principal of the gospel to them and then all the names that the member thought of we were supposed to write them down and set up appointments with them! He was very bold, but it worked. Our bishop was with us and because of this he wants us to do this with every family that we eat with! Elder Johnsten said that every member should (as a family) make a list of EVERY person they know that is not a member.... then each week pray together on which names you are going to invite to meet the missionaries! He was saying there are only 1 of 2 things that will happen! They will say no and you will still be friends or they will say yes and become even better friends! He made it sound so simple!! 

   Today for pday we went on a hike to a water fall.... but it wasn't that easy! The hike wasn't supposed to be very long but it was like a maze through the jungle and we ended up walking in circles! Finally we saw some one and just followed them!! Finally found the water fall!! Just too bad that we couldn't get in!! Had a great time though!! 

    Well I love each and everyone of you and hope you all have a great week!! Thank you so much for everything!! 

Elder Gale

Aloha,

    Another great week in paradise! Our week was great! Tuesday was our zone meeting. Was awesome to have the whole zone together. We talked about the new thing that the church is coming out with called "He is the Gift" world wide the missionaries and members can share and watch a video about Christ and how he is our gift for Christmas. Our zone talked about ways that we can share it with everyone! I want to give a challenge to you all..... Haha your thinking oh no here he goes again but I want you to all share this new video with family and friends! It is a great way to get ready for Christmas! I know hat the missionaries will have a card or you can Google it... I love the video and know that it can influence the lives of all who watch it! Can't wait to hear back from you on how it goes! 

     Had a service project for a less active family in our ward on Wednesday! Helped them with their yard work.... Love doing service! This family has a pig farm so we are going to ask if we can help them with the farm next time!

   Thanksgiving was awesome! We had members invite us over for breakfast, lunch dinner and in between! After about the first 2 we were so full but gotta keep eating! After all of the food we just wanted to sleep! Food coma! We got together with some of the missionaries and got to just hang out and have a a good time.

     Our investigators are doing great we missed Trimity this week they were busy so they had to reschedule for next week.... But we were able to see Kimo this week! Helped him with some service building a deck at his house then had a lesson with him. He is doing great and progressing. He is doing so good and loves the gospel just needs to see for himself that he needs it! 

    So we found out that elder Dzieman will be leaving this transfer! He only has 6 more weeks but our president decided that he was needed somewhere else.... Sad to see him go!  My new companion will be elder Luke. He is already in Kaneohe so he will just move over with me! He is a great missionary and I'm excited to be with him!

   Well thanks so much everything! I love you all and hope everything is going great for you! I am loving life as a missionary and the time is going by too fast! Have a great week!

Love 

Elder Gale

Aloha

     We have had a pretty good week. First off our investigators are doing great. We went to see Trinity and things are great with her. Just gotta get her to pay attention long enough to have a lesson:) 

    Kimo is an investigator that we do service for every Saturday... Well this week we went and helped him get ready for Thanksgiving! His family will be having a imu and we helped I'm get that all ready! For those who don't know what a imu is, well they dig a big hole and get rocks and banana leaves for the bottom and then cook meat in it all night! Wrap the meat in the leaves and then cover it back up with dirt for the night to cook! Pretty cool how it's done and very good! 

      We were able to eat lunch with 2 of the elders in our zone and while we were with them they got a call asking for a blessing at the hospital.... Well they don't have a car so we had the chance to go with them to give the blessing. The missionaries are always getting calls for blessings at the hospital and it is all ways awesome to see the people and to help them. This person had one surgery and because of internal bleeding had to have a second surgery. He wasn't doing so good and his father asked us to give him the blessing. Turns out that the father and the son are both members but the sons wife is a non member. We were just about to give the blessing without her there but she got there just in time! Awesome to see that she still felt the spirit and the need for the blessing! We are not sure what happened but we know that we gave the wife a chance to have that spirit in her life and hopefully it will touch her!

     This morning we had a service project with some of the elders in our zone. We helped move a lady into their ward. Great way to start our Pday off! Not much planned for the rest of our day.... Laundry and get our pad clean:) haha things are going great here in Kaneohe and loving every minute! I hope you all have a great week and I love all of you! Thanks so much for all you have done for me!

Love,

Elder Gale 

20th birthday party with the zone

Aloha Everyone!! 

What a week!!! Super Awesome and very good week!!

      So we have been challenging our zone to find more investigators and to hit all of our goals! We have been really struggling with that!! But this week was a great week for our zone!! Seems like we are on fire right now!! We hit all of our goals and improved so  much!! We see that our father in heaven is blessing our us and we are seeing the miracles! Our mission President has promised every zone that if they hit their goals that he will have a pancake breakfast with them!! Well our zone has hit it back to back transfers now!! The first time was easier but the second time he said we had to have a higher goal for baptisms!! It went from 1 a week to 3 a week to get the breakfast!! Well we had 3 this week!! So awesome to see our zone doing so well!!

     One of the baptisms was a really special one for me!! It was an investigator that I had previously taught in Nanakuli about 1 year ago!! His name is Erik Smith and when we were teaching him and he was so ready... He was unable to be baptized because he was living at his girlfriends house!! Well I left the area and before I left he told me "Don't worry Elder Gale! I'm getting baptized one day!!" Well he kept his promise!! He moved out to go to school and just happened to move to Kaneohe!! He has been here for a couple months and when I was transferred here he was just set with a date for baptism!! This past Saturday was his baptism and I was able to be there and to see him complete his goal that he made a year ago!! I DONT think it was a coincidence that I transferred here! I know that heavenly father knew that I would love to be there and I see how he knows what he is doing!! It was a blessing for me to see him and to witness his baptism!! 

      We had a really great week with our investigators! We had a lesson with a Trinity Chun...She is an unbaptized 11yr old child and her grandfather wants her to be taught and prepared for baptism!! Just over a year ago he was offended and quit coming to church. Well he recently has returned and he said its time for her to come too!! We are so excited for them to make it back to church and for her to have the gospel in her life!! We set a date with Trinity for Dec 6th!! She learns slower than most kids her age so we will be taking it slow so Dec 6th is a goal. If she is ready by then great if not we will push it back. But she is for sure getting baptized!!

     For p-day today we went on a hike super early in the moring to watch the sunrise as a zone! Super cool hike and had a great time!! Then we all gathered to eat breakfast together and then traveled to Kualoa Ranch... It is where lots of movies are filmed here like Jurassic Park, 50 first dates and many others! We got to go on a tour of the whole place and see where it all took place super awesome!! After we were done with that we went to the chapel and had a slip'in slide!! Ha zone p-day so we had to go all out!! Had lots of fun with the zone today! 

Well thank you all so much for everything!! I love you all and hope the best for you!! Like always remember my challenge to share the gospel with a friend!! 

Love,

Elder Gale

Erik Smith's Baptism

Good to see cows (even if they are longhorns)

Aloha Everyone

        This was a great week! We had our zone conference on Thursday. We were combined with Mililani zone…. Like always it was great to be with the missionaries from the other zone and to be with President and Sister Warner! Elder Dzieman and I had to do a training… We ended up training on finding new investigators. Our zone has been really struggling with finding new people to teach so we felt like that is what we needed to train on. Our training went great and at the end of our training we challenged our zone to Find One, Commit One!!! Just a little saying we came up with to motivate the zone…… We know that our zone should be finding a lot more than just one new investigator a week but we haven't been doing so well so we figured we would shoot for one per 

companionship to start it off. 

       While we were with our mission President he told us about a missionary in our mission… A Elder serving on Maui got really sick and ended up in the hospital. No one knew what was wrong with him, well after about a week in the hospital he was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. He was doing his very best to stay positive but unfortunately he was sent home to be treated. Our mission will defiantly miss him and the great missionary that he is! Just reminds me how fast things can change in life and in the mission field!

        We had a very crazy night on Wednesday! We played indoor soccer with a bunch of non-members, Less-actives and investigators at the church. Well we were having a great time and just about time for us to take off and Elder Dzieman rolled his ankle. Didn't look so great! So we spent the rest of the night icing his ankle and getting ready for Zone Conference. Well we get to zone conference and he just walked normal so that no one would know that he did it… Mainly our mission President. Well no one found out so that was good!! He ended up going to the doctor on Friday and he is now on crutches!! So things will be pretty interesting for us for a while!! Not as much walking around that's for sure! Along with his ankle we both have been sick… But the good news is that we are both not sick anymore and even with both of these things we still were able to see all of the people that we needed to see! Kind of funny how that worked out. We are usually rushing to see every one and don't have too much down time. But it worked out great this week!! Saw everyone and had a little time in between for Dzieman to rest his foot! I know that our father in Heaven was watching our for us and knew how important it was that we still see everyone!! 

       Sunday was supper funny cause when we came walking in… well when i was walking in and he was crutching in everyone stopped and asked Elder Gale did you do that to him haha!! I just started replying well that is how we do companionship inventory and this time he just wouldn't listen haha!! Got some great laughs out of that one. We had so many people at church cause of a missionary farewell. We were greeting people at the door and there was not even room for us to sit anywhere. We ended up sitting with about 20 other people in the hall. That was ok we still had a great meeting! After the meeting was over we were talking with everyone and I saw my bishop from my first area at our ward!! He was there for the farewell with his family!! Small island i guess. I got to talk with him and ask how my first ward was doing. Really cool to get to see them again.

      Well I love you all so much! I hope you all have a great week! Thank you so much for all you have done for me and continue to do for me! Remember to always share the gospel with your friends! 

Love,

Elder Gale

Another great week,

       This week we had the opportunity to do lots of service! Just about everyday we had at least one service project to help either a member or one of our investigators..... We love having the chance to serve and it makes our week so much fun. We have seen so many miracles come through doing service. We have a part member family who didn't want the missionaries to teach their unbaptized children. So instead of pushing the gospel on them we just showed our love for them by serving them..... We were driving by and they were getting ready to do yard work so we stopped and helped them. After we were finished the kids asked if we would play basketball with them..... we took time to play with them and the parents saw that we weren't just there to baptize them and that we actually do care about them. Because we took time to serve them and spend that time with them it opened their hearts and they want us to teach the kids now! I know that our heavenly father touched them and I am glad that we were able to be there for them. 

         We had a great Halloween! The first part of our day was more service and at 5pm our mission president asked us to be together as a zone. We met up at one of the chapels and played sports and had a good time together. Being together brought our zone closer and helped us get to know our missionaries! Our zone is a great zone filled with awesome sisters and elders! 

     

    Well Saturday and Sunday were a little bit different than usual.... Elder Dzieman was sick.... So for all day Saturday we stayed inside and he rested. Come Sunday morning he was still not feeling good so We weren't able to make it to church. Our ward was worried about him so we kept getting calls and texts asking if we needed anything and we even had members just stop by and bring things to us. We love our ward and are very grateful for the support that they give to us! 

I am very grateful for my chance to be here in Hawaii and to serve the people here! We get to meet so many awesome people! I know that our father in heaven is opening the heart of people everywhere to hear this gospel! I want to hear any experiences that any of you have been having? And remember my challenge to you..... Share the gospel with a friend and I know that heavenly father will help you and bless you!  Thank you all so much for all that you have done for me! 

Love,

Elder Gale 

Aloha Everyone:

    Another great week. Things are going great for us in our area.... We do lots of service and have some great people that we get to meet with.  We do service for an investigator named Kimo. He is so cool and loves our help. He needs lots of help to fix up his house when he isn't working.  We do all kind of stuff for him and this week I helped him fix the pen for his wild boar.  We pick fruit for him and build things and right now we are helping him build a deck on his house.  We love going over and helping him and he is willing to listen to our message and loves it.  He basically knows the lessons inside and out, but just wants to keep hearing them to make sure he can remember.  He has a place where we share lessons with him, that he named 5.5....  he lives in between Kaneohe 5th and 6th wards so he calls himself a member of the 5.5 ward.  Ha he loves the missionaries and even named his dogs after us.  It is super awesome to help him and to share the gospel with him.  It just so happened that we were on an exchange with our AP's that day and Elder Bogner was with us... and every time Kimo meets a new missionary he asks them lots of questions and we had a fun exchange with him.

   We have some great investigators who are all doing great.  We are teaching Trinity, her mom is a member and she just hasn't been baptized....... YET!! We are also teaching another family that one of their kids isn't baptized as well.   Lots of promising investigators and lots of work to do.  We are staying very busy with everything from helping our zone to teaching our investigators.  I love our zone and the missionaries here are awesome and I am very grateful for the zone that we have! 

    Yesterday we had MLC (mission leader conference) with President and Sister Warner. All of the zone leaders and Sister Trainer Leaders of our mission get together and President gives a training and then we discuss how our mission is doing and what we can do to help the mission do better.  A really long meeting but it was good and always great to be with our President. 

     Since we were gone yesterday our pday is today... Nothing much planned just get laundry done and maybe do some shopping.  This morning our whole zone met at President and Sister Warner's house for a pancake breakfast because we hit all of our goals and so this is what President wanted to do for us.  We had a great time and an awesome breakfast!

Well I hope you all have a great week!  Thank you all so much for all you do for me and I love you all so much!

Love,

Elder Gale

My new address
Elder Tanner Gale
47-630 Kamehameha Highway
Kaneohe, HI 96744



Aloha Everyone 

   Well this week has been a crazy one! I am now back on Oahu serving in the Kaneohe zone! I am serving in the Kahaluu Ward. Our area is awesome. I'm on the windward side of the island and so it is supper green! I love it here so far! We are defiantly super busy which we like! My companion is elder Dzieman…. Ha ya how do you think you say that one? Well its nothing like you would expect. It's pronounced Jamin! He is supper awesome and I will love being with him! He is lots of fun and a great missionary! 

    Our zone is awesome! We have morning exercise together every morning! Monday we go to a  members gym, Tuesday basketball, Wednesday we go back to the gym in the morning and then at night our ward plays indoor soccer! Thursday basketball, Friday volleyball, Saturday we either do ultimate frisky if the weather is good or basketball! Love being able to play so many sports! We have great missionaries in our zone that will make it very fun! 

    Today for p-day should be a relax day and hangout with some of the other missionaries! Well I am having a great time here in Kaneohe and loving my mission! Thank you all so much for all you do for me! Hope you all have a great week! 

Love,

Elder Gale

            I will miss all my Maui friends.....

Aloha Everyone,

    This has been another great week! Well the big thing that has happened is that I found out that I will be leaving..... I will miss the Makawao Ward and serving with them! Serving here has been so great and they are like my home ward! I wish I could stay longer but I guess I can't! I will be leaving Wednesday morning and flying to Oahu and I will be in Kaneohe Zone serving there. I am excited and nervous for my new area and the challenges that will come but it will be great! 

    Yesterday was pretty good and crazy! We had a break the fast potluck as a ward so that was really cool and made saying bye a lot easier! I wont have so many to talk to now.. After the break the fast we had members that wanted us to come over... they made us more food cause I'm leaving and wanted to have me over! I was able to go to 3 different families and at each house they gave us more food! Our ward is so good to the missionaries! I still have so many of the members to see before I leave so the next couple of days will be crazy!

    For p-day today we are going down town to meet up with our zone to hang out and see each other before we all leave so that will be fun... Then back to seeing members! 

    Well so far our week is going to be pretty crazy but it will all work out... I hope you all have a great week and I will be looking forward to hearing from you all Thank you so much for everything!

Elder Gale

              I will miss the Makawao Ward!   

Aloha everyone!!!

     This week has been an exciting one! This Thursday we were able to watch the new meet the Mormons movie as a zone!!! The first presidency gave it to all the mission presidents and so missionaries got to watch it!! It was really awesome and it will help the world to see our church for what it really is!! Then on Friday our mission president came to meet with our whole zone for interviews....... It is always great to see and hear from them!!! 

    

    Saturday was the first sessions of General conference and we were so excited to watch. We had some members who asked us to come over and watch it with them.... Well we waited for them to tell us what time to come over and called and text them and they had forgotten about us coming over... They never remembered that they wanted us over which was a good thing cause we didn't want to make them feel bad...So by the time we figured this all out it was too late to make it to our stake center to watch it... So as for now we still haven't watched the Saturday sessions..... we will eventually.

     Sunday we went to our ward mission leaders house to watch conference and it was great!! We watched the first session and then ate choke food and then while we were waiting for the next session to start our ward mission leader pulled out his guitars and uke and we had a good jam session!! Then we watched the second session with them as well!! My favorite talk from Sunday was Allen F. Packers talk about taking the cover off of the hatchet before we use it!! I thought that was a really funny story and it can teach us a lot in our life. This is one way I could apply it to our life. If we take our self (the cover) off and use the hatchet (the spirit) our Heavenly Father can help us accomplish the things that we need to get done (cutting the logs). I am sure there are many different ways. I loved watching conference and I am looking forward to being able to watch the Saturday sessions. 

    So today for pday...... Was our zone pday! We went on a hike up in Makawao forest to some lava tubes!! It was really cool!! The lava tubes were up on the side of a hill and you can climb through them!! We had fun exploring them!! Then we came back to Makawao and got food and met at a part to play sports. We played tennis! Super fun and Elder Vitaki and I were able to play with 2 random people at the park and we almost beat them!! Ha Then to top our pday off we came to our chapel and we have a huge hill in the front and we made a slip-n-slide!! It was so much fun!! We had a great pday!

     Well I hope you all had a great week! I love you all and hope for the best! Please remember the challenge that I gave to you all to share the gospel with a friend! Looking forward to hearing from you! Thank you again for all you have done for me have a great week!

Cupcakes we made for the members......(120 of them)

Lava tubes

President Warner gave us permission to slip-n-slide

It was tons of fun