Aloha Everyone,

     Well it's been another great week! We had a great New Years! We watched the Saratov approach as a zone! Then we went with one of our members and eat an awesome dinner! We also set off choke(a lot) fireworks with them! Hawaii loves New Years and so many fireworks everywhere! The fireworks go for about a week before New Years and like a day after! Makes lots of smoke that just sits in the air! But it's also lots of fun!

   New Year's Day we were supposed to have a service project but it ended up getting canceled cause we had a big storm come in..... Got supper windy and knocked down lots of trees! Crazy how fast it came and then left just as fast! 

     Saturday was a great day for us!! We had our service with the member that owns a farm! Love going over when he asks us! Then after our service we got to see all the people we needed to and was our busiest day! Love days like that!! 

      We are trying very hard to get Trinity baptized! They are moving to Big Island in a couple weeks and want her baptism here so all the family can make it! Lots of work to do to make it but we can do it! 

     Our other investigators are doing great had a awesome lesson with sister Harris! She finally came to church and stayed all three hours! She is going to be a great member! Already is great! 

       I hope you all had a great New Years! You should all have a New Years goal of being better at sharing the gospel with others! Something great to shoot for!! Thank you all so much I love and miss each and everyone of you!! Have a great week!!

Elder Gale

18 month mark........so we have to burn something! HaHa  This is a pair of my pants!

December 29, 2014

Aloha Everyone

     Well Christmas was so great!! Hope you all had a very awesome Christmas!! It was so good to talk and see family when we Skype!! Got to see how much everyone has changed in the past 8 months!! I loved being able to talk and see you (if you were there)!! Made my Christmas a great one!! 

    This week was kind of crazy!! So we had Our regular Tuesday other than we were only supposed to go to set appointments and then on Wednesday our mission president told us to be done right after lunch!! Well that made things pretty interesting for us!! We didn't have many set appointments either day so we had lots of free time that we didn't know what to do with!! Made for a very boring couple days!! But finally on Christmas came and made it better!! Got to Skype and then we had dinner with some members and then our zone got together and watched Frozen!! I had heard so much about it but that was the first time I had watched it!! Really fun and kinda a weird feeling haha!! We had lots of fun as a zone doing that though!! 

      We had a great service project this past Saturday!  Helped a member on his farm!! We took out a old part of his barn out and put a new support in!! It took quite a long time just cause the member was making sure and letting us know how to do every little step... we get more work done when he isn't watching because he thinks his way is the only way! But that's Ok we love doing service for him and it makes me happy to be back on a farm!! He has horses and we got to take care of them! Too bad we cant ride them!! 

      Our investigators are all doing so good!! This Christmas season was so great to be with them and to see them progress!! We are still working with Kimo and doing service for him, Working with Trinity well when we can catch her home we do! We have just started working with Sister Harris and things are looking great with her!! We have so many others that are doing so great! Elder Luke and I are doing great and having a great time serving together!! 

   Well things are going great here for us and I hope things are good for all of you!! Thank you all so much for everything!! Hope to hear from you all soon!! 

Elder Gale

December 22, 2014

Aloha Everyone!!

    Another great week!! Our investigators are all doing great!! We have started working with a part member couple, the Harris's!! Brother Harris just received his Melchizedek Priesthood this past week and Sister Harris is not a member... She is so awesome and comes every week to church and stays to all the classes!! We can already tell that she has a love for the gospel! Just gotta get in the water haha!!

     Our other investigators are doing well, Kimo is the same.... Not really showing much change. We are trying our best to help him and to love him.... He loves having the missionaries over but it kinda seems like all he wants is for us to do service for him! Service is great but not our ultimate goal with him!! Hope things will work out with him!!

    We had the opportunity to help some of the other elders in our zone with a service for a member in their area! It was good to help them! We moved a huge pile of dirt (clay!!) for them that had been there for almost a year and every time it got rained on it gets harder and harder!! That made things very interesting!! But we use the dirt to level their backyard and when we were finished a couple hours later it looked great!! After the service the family feed us a huge breakfast!! It was awesome cause instead of making the local kine food they made a main land breakfast!! Hash browns, eggs, Bacon, Sausage!! That was a good change for once!!

     Our ward mission leader just got released and we got a new one! Our new ward mission leader is brother Ah Nee! He is so awesome and loves to help the missionaries! His son just left on his mission so he has a great desire to get things rolling!! So does his wife!! Sometimes I wonder if they called him to be the ward mission leader or her!! She is on top of everything and has so many great ideas!! We love them and they will be great!! We will miss our old ward mission leader for sure!!

      So today for p-day we had planned to go on a hike........ Well guess we weren't supposed to go!! Because when we woke up to go it was raining super hard and super windy!! I know you all will laugh but it was freezing!! When your body gets used to the 80 degree weather and then it decides to be super over cast and rainy its cold! I’m going to FREEZE back in Utah!!

    Well thank you all so much for all that you do for me! I love you all so much! I hope that you are all enjoying your holiday season and remember there is still plenty of time to share the he is the gift with someone!! Can’t wait to hear all of your missionary experiences!!

Elder Gale

Aloha Everyone

What a crazy and fun week! This week was like a p-week! Seemed like everyday we had something fun planned! Tuesday was our temple trip! So awesome to finally make it back to the temple! Been since last May! Been too long! We ate at north shore tacos and had an awesome trip with our zone! I love going to the temple cause I always run into members working there that I know from my past areas!  

Wednesday we went to Pearl Harbor to do service as a zone! When we got there we found out that we were going to be on film while we did service! So a guy from the church news came and wanted to video the service that the missionaries do! The church received an award for so much service! Over the past couple years the missionaries have done around 27,000 hours of service for Pearl Harbor and so the church wanted to make a video of it. The guy told us that it will be apart of the next church world news... most likely after General conference in April! 

Thursday we had an awesome opportunity, given to our whole mission! Our mission president got 250 tickets for the missionaries to bring families from our areas and investigators to the Polynesian Cultural Center (PCC)!! So we had to have someone to bring or we couldn't go. It wasn't to hard to find someone to go with us to a free $40 show! It was a great show that was all about Christ and Christmas! 

Saturday was our ward Christmas party! We always love going to them cause the awesome food. Gotta love the food. They even had the Polynesian Santa there!He wore slippa's and a lava lava instead of pants! 

To finish off our week we had a musical fireside on Sunday. Our ward put it on for the whole stake and it was awesome. They had selected 2 families to sing and 2 other people to sing also! It was awesome to have our investigators there and to listen to the music. Really brought the spirit of Christmas! As you can see we had a awesome week and not much time to waist. Which is how we like it! Our ward is so awesome and I am loving working with our members! Elder Luke and I are doing great together and I love him so much! He is so fun and has made our work fun! 

Well I hope you all are having a great Christmas season and sharing the gift of Christ with others! Please if you have any experiences share them with me! I love hearing about them! I hope you all have a great week! I love each and everyone of you!

Love,

Elder Gale

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