March 16th, 2015

Aloha,

     Well this was a great week for us! So the highlight of this week, we had a great lesson with Robert! We taught him the plan of salvation and at the first of the lesson he was struggling with someone trying to push him away from meeting with us but as we went through the lesson the spirit was so strong and he felt it. He told us that he has no doubt that it's true now!! When we talked about being able to live with our families forever he got tears in his eye and said I knew there was more and it just makes sense! He lost his father a couple years back and not on good terms so he was so happy now that he knows he can see him again! At the end of our lesson he told us that he has 1 cigarette left and he isn't buying anymore! We can see a big change in him already and we are so luck to have the opportunity to be with him! So excited to see where he will go with the gospel!

       On another side Aunty Pua had a less exciting lesson. She is pretty attainment that she isn't coming to church and that she probably won't me be getting baptized anytime soon. We are doing all we can to help her but we just can't seem to get through to her. She keeps telling us I know what you teach is true and I will get baptized. But the when is what she doesn't know and Is scared for. Please pray for her we know that our father in heaven will guide her to baptism when the time is right! Our other investigators are doing pretty good still working with them and helping them progress!

        Well Saturday was a very busy day for us! We had the service at the preschool in the morning. We did the yard, painted and all sorts of stuff! I found myself in a tree trimming it! Then Aunty Annette asked if I could help her cut potatoes but when we got to the kitchen she said oh yeah do you know how to take out my old oven?? Ha so instead of cutting the potatoes for lunch another Elder and I took out her old oven and put the new one in...wasn't as easy as we thought It would be! We had to build a complete new part in her cabinet just so it would fit... Then we got that done and found out that the old oven was just a little wider than this one so there was a gap on both sides. Fixed that problem and got it all on and wired and it worked! Ha always love that feeling when you make something work.... Didn't want it to not work!! That would of been embarrassing! So as soon as we were done at the preschool we went strait to one of our members house to help them move stuff in to storage so that they can remodel. They feed us dinner after and so we ended up not getting done at their house till around 8 ha! From 8am to 8pm doing service! We were exhausted but it was well worth it! 

We had a really good sacrament meeting this Sunday. Had a returned missionary from our ward speak.... Made me realize that would be me in a little while! Then I quickly stopped thinking about that! I still have a year left right?! He was awesome to listen to and brought the sport for sure! 

        Well thank you all for all your love and support! I always look forward to hearing from you and hearing missionary experiences?? Still haven't gotten too many of them?? I hope you all have a great week! Love you all very much!!

Elder Gale

March 9th, 2015


Aloha, 

     Another great week as usual! I am loving it here in Kalihi and my companion is so awesome!! I love working with him and learning from him for sure! He has already taught me so much and helped me in my mission! We have had a great week! Our investigator Robert is doing great! Finally got to teach him his first lesson on Tuesday morning and it was awesome! We shared the restoration with him and he loved it! After the lesson was over he asked us "so do I need to stop drinking and smoking before I can get baptized?" After we told him yes he told us that he can give them up easy! We set a quit date for him for April 5th! Then he will set his baptism date. We are so excited for him and to be able to help him! 

     Other cool and exciting things that happened this week. Well we did service for a member of our ward on her boat! She lives at the Keehi boat harbor on her boat! She asked us to come take some boxes to her storage unit for her so we got to go on to the boat for just a second! 

      So we were trying to visit a less active member and we were walking down the road where she lives and she had just got out of her car with groceries... We offered to help her carry her things to the door and right when we did, this crazy old aunty started yelling at us saying that Mormons are bad and only talk to women, that we should talk to her husband and leave her alone. She was saying some pretty funny things and then our member said oh shut up they are from my church! The lady didn't know what to say back to that and just went back inside.... These experiences have made my mission not just because it's a funny story cause it is, but because it shows that even though our member doesn't come to church she is still willing to stand up for the church. It showed me that she still believes and has faith! I hope we can all say the same for ourselves! When we are in though situations, are we going to just turn away and not say anything or are we going to be like this member and protect the gospel and show how much it means to us.

Today for pday we have a BBQ planned with the other missionaries in our zone... going to go to a beach park and play sports and eat food!! Always great to get together and see the other  missionaries.  So I bet you all remember the He is the Gift video right?? Well the church is coming out with another set of videos similar to that... It is called "Because He Lives". Videos won't be available till later this month but I want to challenge you all right now to start thinking of who you can share this with! Then when it comes time you will be ready. 

     Thank you all so much for everything you have done for me! I love you all and hope you have a great week! Hope to hear from you all soon!

Elder Gale

Aloha, 

  

    Well this week was so great! We had great success this week and got to see all of our investigators! They are all doing great! So we were referred to a new investigator by a member.... She was cleaning his house for him and, is always inviting everyone she runs into! He said yes to meeting with us! His name is Robert, we had a lesson with him and he told us he had been searching for something that has been missing for a while, that's what made him say yes to meeting us. We talked about our purpose as missionaries and what he expected from meeting with us. Told him that we would be inviting him to do little things, he was excited and asked when church is! Without even sharing a actual lesson he felt the spirit and he is ready! Yesterday at church he was there with us and it was amazing! Our ward was awesome to reach out to him and make him feel welcomed! He told us in between sacrament meeting that it felt right being there with us! President Auna of the 70 was there, in 3rd hour he spoke to us and it was about missionary work and Robert cried! We are so excited to be with him and to help him! Pretty sure he is getting baptized soon!

     The rest of our week was great! Had 2 service projects on Saturday and they both feed us choke food! Had a baptism Saturday night for Leia! She is a funny girl and love the missionaries! She has been telling us for a month that we can't miss her baptism and that she wants us there!

     Today for pday we went on a hike to a water fall..... Half way to the water fall there was a cool bridge thing with a pill box at the end super fun and awesome waterfall! Always great to be able to hike! 

    Well thank you all so much for everything! I love and miss each one of you! Keep sharing the gospel with your friends! Have a great week!

Elder Gale

Aloha,

      Another great week! Our investigators are all doing great still hanging in there and progressing! We were able to see 2 of our investigators at the same time and introduce them to each other! That ended up working great! They now have each other to talk about the gospel and to help fellowship each other so that is really awesome!! Teaming up investigators is great cause they now have a close friend in the gospel that they can talk with! 

        

          So Tuesday was a interesting afternoon, we just got done eating lunch when our phone rang and one of our members asked if we could come help her move a chest to the dump. So we went right over and we stayed in our "pross" clothes which wasn't the greatest idea but we didn't realize that till later! The chest was huge! We had to move it down her stairs and carry it across the housing complex to the big dumpsters! Well by the time we got there we were both drenched with sweat (very hot day) and all dirty from the chest! The same member asked us to help her catch a stray chicken that runs around in front of her building cause it wakes everyone up at 4am!! So still in our "pross" clothes we were chasing a stupid rooster around this housing complex! I imagine that we looked pretty funny! Two guys in white shirts and ties casing a chicken! Needless to say the chicken won. (For now!!)

     

       Well transfers is this week and Elder Tian is leaving. He will be going to Kahaluu, yeah we just switched places! I am excited for the next transfer and what it will bring. My new companion is Elder Va'enuku. He has been out about 6 months and is a awesome missionary! I was able to serve with him in my last zone and got to know him really good! I'm excited to be with him and I know that we are together for a reason! Our father in heaven knew that he needed to be here cause just today at church a member asked us to teach a big Tongan family and they are interested in learning the gospel! So cool to see that at the exact time that I will be getting a Tongan companion that we receive a Tongan family to teach! I am very excited to see what will happen with them! 

       Well thank you all so much for everything! Keep sharing the gospel with your friends and family and our father in heaven will bless you! Hope to hear from you all soon!

Elder Gale

Aloha, 

     One more great week! We started off our week with our zone conference with our mission president and the Honolulu zone came over to join us. Always great to be with them and to hear from them! They always bring the spirit so strong and I learn so much! Started at 9am and went to 4:30pm!! Makes for along day but it was good! 

     So we had a great lesson with our investigator Lexi! She is so awesome and ready for the gospel! We started by reviewing what she already knew and she taught us all the lessons! She has everything down! We talked about the word of wisdom and she wasn't sure that she knew that one so we started to teach that one and when we had her turn to D&C 89 she had it marked already and she remembered it! She said oh yeah I'm already living that! Got to love that! Made our job super easy! At the end of our lesson she asked how she can fully repent! We couldn't believe that! Never had an investigator do that! Then she asked if she could barrow our preach my gospel to copy some stuff down! She is so solid! So all of this was going great and then we found out that she doesn't even live in our area:/ dang it!! So we had to turn her over to some other elders! But the thing that matters is she will get baptized and it won't matter where! Just grateful that we had a chance to help her even a little bit!

     Our investigators are still doing good just still working on the little things! Please keep them in your prayers! We know that they will come around just need to see it for themselves! 

      We had a pretty cool experience on Wednesday. We went to the preschool that we do service for and had a Chinese New Year thing..... They did the Lion dance.... the thing that we all think is a Dragon well it's not! Really cool to participate and see their culture! Then we ate really awesome Chinese food and not the kind that you get at panda cause that's not real. 

Well we came to our pad after the lion dance and we came to use the restroom. We had been in our pad for less than 10 minutes and when we came back out our car was broken into! Guess that's what we have to deal with when we live where we do and right next to the high school! Nothing too important was taken so it will be fine! 

      Valentines day was pretty good..... As usual that night we had no dinner so the Samoan ward invited all the missionaries to their dinner so that meant we had lots and lots of really good food!! They are so funny! I love the culture that they have! Every activity that they have the whole family participates Instead of just the youth or so on.

      Sunday was a good surprise! We walked across the road from our pad to the church and when we walked into the parking lot I saw my aunt Jan her son Jayden and her husband David!! What a cool surprise that was! I knew they were here in Hawaii just didn't think they would stop by. It was great to see them and talk to them!  Kinda weird to see family again! I am so happy that they stopped by and got to come to church with us! 

     Today for pday we have a good day planned! We got permission to use the church computers cause it's Presidents' Day! Then we will play sports and we get to hang out with the other missionaries! 

Thank you all so much for your love and support!! Hope you all have a great week!! Love you all so much!! 

Elder Gale

Aloha Everyone,

    What a crazy week we had! Our ward mission leader and his 4 brothers are our ward missionaries and on Tuesday they all came out with us! It was so awesome cause we got to see so many people that day and had a great time with them! We are working with them too, none of them have served missions and we want them to all go! All but one are old enough to go and they all say they want to just not sure why they haven't gone! They are so awesome and help us tons! Ka'au (our ward mission leader) ran into a former investigator and had a great conversation with him and he wants us to start teaching him again! We had lots of blessings come because they came with us!

     Wednesday morning we had lesson with that former investigator his name is Lee Daniels! My companion was sick but I still made him go to the lesson! We had a great lesson and he love having us over! We are excited to see what will happen! After that lesson we came back to our pad and let my comp rest! Well that was about 11 am and he slept till 6 pm!! I ended up making him go out of the pad cause I was dying just sitting there! It was good for him too get out too! He was sick the whole next day and so we didn't get much done..... 

      Friday was a much better day! He was feeling a lot better so we got back to work! We had lots of referrals to contact so that's what we did! We got to see so many people and had great success! We ran into a guy who was washing his car and he wanted us to teach him and his wife! So we shared a lesson with them and they liked it! Then as we were leaving he said why don't you let me wash your car! So we went over this morning and washed our car with him! Our day Friday was a great make up day for the 2 sick days! We got to see everyone that we needed to and then some! Our father in heaven was blessing us and giving is time to see those people! Even tho we had the 2 sick days this week was our best week so far!! 

      Saturday we were back at the preschool doing service! Most the day consisted of taking out part of the lawn that had sunk and adding dirt underneath and then putting the grass back! We got there around 11 and that one project took us till about 2:30 to get it done! Then we had to rush home and get ready to help set up for our ward party! Well the party was fun and great food!! Not too many people from the ward came and that was sad, it was the smallest ward party I have ever seen! Still lots of fun though! We are trying to help the members in our ward feel more welcomed... Not sure why but our ward struggles with unity and wanting to be together! Trying our best and praying for them! 

     So we got to church Sunday morning and we were greeting people at the door and Bishop Young came up to me and said "Oh Elder Gale by the way your speaking in church today!!"  Never knew that till right then! It all worked out and was fine! He had me introduce my self and let me basically talk on whatever I wanted so that was good! I was so amazed that when I got up I knew what to share and I filled my time! It was almost like I had prepared a talk! I know our father in heaven will help us what we need to share if we just have faith in him!! (D&C 100: 4-6) 

       For Pday today we got our hair cut at a members house then went strait to our investigators house to wash our car with him!! Then we met up with some missionaries and went on a hike! The hike was to king Kamehameha's summer place.... Got to see the ruins of that and then a cool waterfall! Much needed hike! Been a while since we have hiked! Then we played some basketball and cruised with some elders and had fun! 

      I am loving it here in Kalihi and doing great! Time is flying by and the work here is picking up! I'm so grateful for my time to serve as a missionary and to be here in Hawaii!! I hope you all have a great week! And remember I love you all and to share the gospel with your friends and family!

Elder Gale

Aloha Everyone!

     We have a had a great week! We went to Pearl Harbor as a zone and did our monthly service project. We did some cleaning, dusting, sweeping and all that fun stuff and then they were having an event on the ship later that day so we set up lots of chairs for them. It is always great to be at Pearl Harbor and so much fun! 

      Our Stake had a really cool idea for this week! We had a big basketball tournament and encouraged members to bring non members to play! I think there were about 12 different teams and so many people attended. The missionaries were asked to have a booth with pamphlets and Books of Mormon for people to take, so that was cool! And we were also invited to play in part of the tournament as well.... That was lots of fun and we got to talk to lots of people and show them that missionaries are still regular people too! 

        Our investigators are still doing great as always... We did get bad news from Auntie Pua.... She wants to postpone her baptism because her and her family are having some problems and she wants to fix them first and then concentrate on the gospel! We think that is a great idea but we are also sad that it will be a little longer for her... Please help us by keeping her in your prayers and we know that our Father in Heaven will provide a way to help her! 

Our other investigators are great! Angela is still having problems with her family not wanting her to meet with us and get baptized... Still praying for her and doing our best to help her! We still have one with a baptism date and that is Alia Sunia... Things are great with her just gotta pick her date and go for it!

    Our zone hit all our goals and instead of President and Sister Warner having a pancake breakfast our senior couple missionaries the Austins made breakfast for our whole zone.  They are so awesome and we love having them here with us! They made pancakes and eggs for breakfast which was so kind of them to do that for us! 

        Well thank you all so much for everything! I really appreciate all the prayers and blessings that I receive from you! I love each and everyone of you, thank you and remember to share the gospel with your friends!  Hopefully no one had too good of a time watching the Super Bowl haha no need either of those 2 teams ha!! Just kidding! Love you!

Elder Gale

January 26th, 2015

Aloha Everyone, 

     Well our week was another great week!! Our investigators are all doing so great! We still have 2 with baptism dates and we are super excited for them! Auntie Pua is our first with date and she is so awesome and doing so great in the gospel! She is very ready for her baptism but just gotta make it to church a couple more times so the members can get to know her! We feel like she teaches us just as much as we are teaching her! Our second with date is Alia she is 9 years old and her parents are members... missionaries have been working with them for quite some time and now the family is coming to church and doing great and they want her to get baptized! We are very excited for both of these two and for them deciding they want to get baptized! We don't have a specific date with either of them yet still got to work that out with their schedules!  For our other investigators we are teaching Angela and she has gone through 12 sets of missionaries! The one thing holding her back is her mom is against her getting baptized... we are hoping and praying for the best and hoping that her moms heart will softened!  We are also teaching Auntie Sandra and she is the FUNNIEST lady I have ever met! She is from the ghettos of Detroit and shows it! She is not afraid of anyone or anything and she is very open with everything!! At first she was not having anything to do with missionaries but then they offered service for her and slowly she saw that we aren't that bad! 

    Every Saturday as a zone we get to do a service project at a preschool! The people that own the school aren't members either and they love missionaries now! Some missionaries tracked into them and offered to help them with yard work and the preschool and it took a little while but now it is a weekly thing! I can see how the gospel and the influence of missionaries has blessed their lives even if they have their own religion! They are so kind and love what missionaries do! Each week they have different projects for us to do and I think we have painted the whole school inside and out! We also do the yard work, clean toys and prep things for the kids for the next week! The have loved having the missionaries over so much that they made a wall that all the missionaries sign before they leave this zone! So cool to be with them and to give service!! 

    Sunday was our Steak Conference and it was one of the best Conferences that I have been to! Every speaker that spoke was so in-tune with the spirit and it was so easy to listen the whole time and to get their messages! Elder Foster of the quorum of the 70 was there and he is so awesome! Such a funny guy and the way he spoke to the congregation was so awesome! Our mission president, President and Sister Warner were also there and they talked as well! We had a great conference and a great way to finish off our week!

      Well thank you all for everything! I love and miss you all!! I hope you all have had a great week and will have another great one this week!! I would love to hear how you are all doing and remember to always be looking for friends and family to share the gospel with!! I know if we have faith that our father in heaven will help us find those who are ready for the gospel in their life!! 

Elder Gale