Aloha Everyone!!

     Well we had another crazy and exciting week!!! Sorry again that I didnt email yesterday... Elder Miller and I had to go to a Meeting in Honolulu with some of the other missionaries! So today was our pday instead of yesterday.

     Things are getting so crazy for me here!!! Can Not believe that i will be home next week!! Cant wait to see all of you soon and catch up about how you are all doing! We have been keeping busy and seeing so many miracles in our missionary work! I am loving my mission, what is left of it of course!! Our zone is doing so great together and working hard!! So far this month our zone has been blessed with seven people who have been able to come into the gospel and get baptized!! We love seeing our zone have great success and get to see all these wonderful people come into this gospel! For us in our area we had a really cool experience this week!! We were walking around in our area contacting people and we decided that we needed to knock on a door so we did and Kevin answered the door... Well Kevin is a really cool guy! His son in law served his mission right here in Hawaii and then married his daughter... we were able to set up a time to come back and meet the whole family and had a really awesome message! Turns out that the son in law and his wife just went through the Temple and that they have been working on sharing the gospel with her parents! Was awesome that we got to meet them and help bring the gospel to them!!

        We were able to have another district activity where we helped each other in our areas and it was awesome! We ended up having lots of member here this time to come with us! Each missionary was able to split with at least one member and so we got to cover a lot more people!! We were able to see about 60 people in about 2 hrs and a lot of them asked if we could come back! It was really cool for the members who were all 17 to 20 year old young singles that are getting ready to go on their own missions and have them help us and also learn about missionary work.

Well thank you all so much for everything!! Cant believe i will only have one more email!!! CRAZY!!! Love you all have a great week!!

Elder Gale

June 16th, 2015

Aloha Everyone,

    Well first off sorry that it took so long to get you all the email... today was our temple trip and also our pday!! We had a great trip as a zone to the Temple and it was sad cause it was my last one as a missionary!!!:( We had our regular North Shore Tacos and then hit up some of the shops on North Shore.... Had a great day but kinda long!

    Been another busy week full of exchanges, district floods and always running around between our 2 areas! Love staying busy and having so much to do! Had so many great things happen this week and things are looking so good here in our zone! Our missionaries are awesome and I love serving around them!  Had a crazy Sunday!! Ha elder Millers family accidentally showed up to our ward so that was a huge surprise for both of them but ended up being good for him to see them! 

     Well Sorry this is going to be short but we have appointments to get to and not too much time to email today! I will give more updates next week maybe if not then talk to me in 2 weeks when I get home hahah JK:) For real I am not sure I'm ready to come home yet other than to see you all.... Well have a great week and remember that this Gospel is so true!! I am loving my last couple weeks here and loving my mission! Cant wait to see you all really soon... Love you 

Elder Gale

Aloha Everyone,

  

      Well we had another great and exciting week! Went on two exchanges with some of the missionaries in our zone so that was good to be with them! Had a really cool experience with our district this past Wednesday... we did a district flood, its where our whole district gets together in one of the areas and goes out and just talk to lots of people!! We went to the Palehua sisters area for them and in one hour we had contacted 27 people for them and found some new investigators for them. Was really cool to find them and help out the sisters. Elder Stulce and I were together for the flood and we found a part member family that just moved from Tennessee and the wife isn't a member but her husband is and said that she is willing to come to church and get baptized if he wanted to as well!! So that is really cool and exciting for them to have this family to teach!!

     Elder Miller and I made a challenge for our zone. The challenge was for QGC's(Quality Gospel Conversations). Our zone had been struggling with them and so we offered lunch to the winning district that had the most QGC's over 50!! Well the two districts did awesome, and we improved so much on it and really helped the zone find people to talk to and teach! 

      This Saturday we had a really awesome lesson with the Youth Challenge teens... We ended up having around 30 in the class and it was a really good lesson and lots of them had really good questions and wanted to learn more...  8 of those were able to get permission to come to church this Sunday so that was cool to have them here with us!  

    Things are going great here in Makakilo!! Loving being back here and seeing a lot of people I already knew so that is cool!! I got to go on exchanges in Nanakuli for the day as well and go see people that I was able to teach last year and some of the members!! 

Well thank you all for everything!! I love you all and miss you! Hope you all have a great week! And cant wait to hear from you soon!

Elder Gale

Anyone want to eat horse meat with me?

Well how about mango's?

Aloha Everyone!!!

     We had another great week!! Things are going great in Makakilo!! We had a super busy week so that was really nice. We had a mission leader training meeting with President and Sister Warner this past Tuesday and it was awesome!! They gave training's as well as our AP's. Always great to hear from them. Then on Wednesday President and Sister Warner were here in Makakilo with our zone doing our interviews. CRAZY cause it was my last one(DYING INTERVIEW!!!) Cant believe it but it was good to have them here with us! 

      Thursday was our zone meeting so we have been seeing a lot of our zone lately and that is nice! Our training was on the worth of souls. It was a great training and it got our zone unified and ready to hit our goals!!  We were on exchanges all day Friday with the Waianae elders. Elder Storer and I were in his area and we had a great day!! Got to see lots of people and loved being with him! He is one of the other elders that finished with me so we had a great day and got to talk about our missions with each other!! 

     Saturday was another crazy day! We had a service in the morning that took most of our day. We helped clean up the church mango farm!! Awesome cause we got to take as many fresh mango's as we wanted!! That has to be one of my favorite things about Hawaii!! The fresh fruit! Ha but they didn't last too long all gone already!!  Later Saturday night one of our wards had a ward party... it was a game night party so they had lots of board games and then ball games to play and of course there was food!! HA cant forget that! We played dodge ball with a whole bunch of youth and returned missionaries and that was super fun!!

      Sundays are our craziest day of the week!!!! We have meetings from 9am till 6pm none stop so every Sunday is a fast Sunday for us.. and some Sundays we have meetings till 8 or 9pm... then we still have to do numbers for our zone....makes for long days but it is always great to stay busy!

      Well things are going awesome!! Loving life here in Hawaii and loving my mission!! hope you are all doing great! Love you all and hope to hear from you all soon!!

Elder Gale 

My new address:
Elder Tanner Gale
92-1021 No'u St. Apt #105
Kapolei, HI 96707


Aloha everyone,

        Well sorry the email came so late today!! Been super busy today! We ended up going with most of the elders and our sisters in our zone to the beach park with one of the wards to BBQ and play volleyball. There was so many people out at the beach for Memorial day! We had a really great time playing at the beach park and then we ate choke good food! Then we played basketball with some elders! So been a great first pday back here in Makakilo!! 

          So my new companion Elder Miller is the bomb! We are having lots of fun together and getting lots of work done!! We cover two wards so we stay very busy and never really a down time! It is really cool to be here in Makakilo and Kapolei since I know lots of the members here. It was awesome to see their reactions when I showed up for church, they were surprised that I was back! Supper cool to be back to see them! In our pad we have four of us living there so it is always fun and crazy! Elder Juan and Elder Edwards are the other two elders and Elder Juan goes home with me so that is pretty cool to be with him!   

        We had a really cool experience, one of our members asked us to come teach some kids at her work... she works at the Youth Challenge. The youth challenge is basically like the military for youth, they go and get lots of experience and learn lots! So we got to go in and teach any of them that wanted to come and join... well we ended up having around 30 kids from ages 13 to 18 come in and we had a lesson about the Gospel of Jesus Christ! Was a super cool experience and some of them were really interested! We are excited to help these youth and to see what we can do to share the gospel with them! 

         Things are going great for me here and still loving every minute of my mission!! Cant believe that it has gone so fast!! Well thank you all so much for all you do for me!! Love and miss you all! Have a great rest of your memorial day!! 

Elder Gale

Sister Smith & Elder Gale

New companion Elder Miller

May 18, 2015

Aloha Everyone,

     Well this week was a great week for us! Our investigator Alex got baptized this Saturday! His baptism was so awesome and we had lots of support from our ward to help him! Alex was so happy for his baptism and so ready! Every time we would go over to teach them the kids would all want to wear our watches, so for the baptism I gave each of the 4 kids their own watch and they were so excited! We love this family and so happy for them! 

         This past Friday we went on splits with our ward mission leader and his dad. It was a great split! I was with his dad and we were able to see our investigator Robert. He was doing so great and very solid and then we lost contact with him.... well we were able to talk with him for about 10 minutes and at first he didn't really want us there. Right before we left he said I know I need you guys to keep coming back. He told us he had been struggling a lot with word of wisdom and that his life wasn't going so well but that just having us there with him made him feel so much better! He invited himself to church and accepted a blessing!  

     We also got to see our other investigator Pua, she has been struggling a lot lately too and we were able to give her a blessing as well and she said it made her feel a lot better! It was so cool to be able to get to see both of these investigators because we hadn't been able to for a while! 

         We found out about transfers this week... and I will be leaving. I'm going back to Makakilo to be in the Makakilo and Kapolei wards... so yes I already served in Makakilo and Kapolei ward was my 3rd ward that I was in, so i'm pretty excited to go back and see the ward again! I will be the zone leader for my last transfer. My new companion is Elder Miller. Don't know too much about him yet but I'm sure things will go great for us! I am excited for the new change and its crazy that it is my last transfer!! 

     Well things are going great for me here in Hawaii!! Loving my mission and loving serving the people here!! Thank you all so much for all you do for me I really appreciate it! Hope to hear from you all soon! Have a great week! 

Elder Gale

Elder Gale & Alex

Aloha,

        This was a great week for us!! So Alex is still doing great and we are so excited for his baptism this Saturday! He has finished all his lessons and is already to go! He is very excited and cant wait for his baptism! Our other investigators are doing good! We found six new people to teach this week so that helps a lot! And we have received some great referrals from members! Things are looking great for our area and we are seeing so many miracles and lots of work to do! 

        We went on an exchanges with some elders in our district cause one of them is really struggling to stay motivated and want to work.... all he wants to do is to do service all week. Service is great when we do it along with our regular missionary work. So he came into my area with me and my companion went to his area. Just on that day of the exchange they were able to get a lot of work done in the area and it really helped this young missionary gain back the motivation and showed him that there is still work to do.  

So another funny experience with my district...... So on Sunday nights our district reports their numbers to me then I have to get them to the zone leaders and they told us to get the numbers by 8:30pm. Well one of the companionship in our district wasn't getting their numbers in and it was taking till around 10pm to get them to do it. So finally we had to tell them that if they don't get them in they would count for 0 and not get to change them.... well 9:00pm rolled around and still nothing from them so I had to report their numbers as 0. That was the first time I have had to do that, but hopefully they will be better from here on out.

       Well Saturday was a very busy day for us. We had a service project in the morning and we cut and trimmed trees and things for a member and his neighbors. It was a really good service project and our whole elders quorum was able to come and help. After the service they had a huge BBQ which was awesome. Then we got to Skype our family for mothers day. Had to do it Saturday because we weren't able to on Sunday. It was awesome to see family and to talk with them!! So crazy that it was my last call home and made me realize that is going fast! Not too sure I'm ready to come home other than to see my family of course!

       So Church was pretty interesting for us! About half way through the sacrament meeting Brother Finau was speaking and he called my companion and I up to speak!! So he does this to all the missionaries when he speaks in their wards cause he is a High council speaker. It was really cool what he had us do. He had us help him tell a story about a job interview. The job description made it sound like no one would want this job and he began to list off things that the job required; No vacation, no holidays, no weekends, only can take a lunch when your associates have eaten first, have some type of degree in medicine, and many other things. He said that 24 people applied for the job and that there would be no pay. Almost at once everyone that had applied said they no longer wanted the job. He then said that even with this job description that Billions of people hold this job today and it is the mothers! It was a really cool way to introduce mothers day and made everyone realize how much mothers have to deal with and go through. So all we had to do was be the 24 people that applied and respond to what he said and he made things for us to say that were pretty funny! 

       I hope you all had a very good mothers day!! Thank you to all of you for all you have done for me! Thank you the most to my mom!! Your the best! I'm very glad to have you in my life and love you very much!! Hope you all have a great week! Hope to hear from you all soon!!

Elder Gale

My district ( I am the district leader)

May 4th, 2015

Aloha,

      Well its been another great week for us! We had our zone conference this past Tuesday and that is always a great time and we enjoy seeing President and Sister Warner along with some of the other missionaries! This zone conference was a crazy one for me! Because it was my last one!!!!!!!! Cant believe that is came that fast! So for the last zone conference they have you give your dying (finishing) testimony, and then they have all of the missionaries that its their last one stand up in front and they sing Aloha Oe which is basically talking about last goodbye so that was pretty weird!! All in all it was a great conference and I'm sad that it is my last!! 

        Things with our investigators are going great! Still working with Alex towards May 16 for his baptism and he is doing great and almost ready! We are very excited for him and his family! Thank you all for the prayers form him I know that it has been helping them! 

     We had a really good week finding some new people to teach and that is always nice! There is so much work for us to do in our area and it keeps us busy! 

      We went on an exchange with our zone leaders this week and I was with Elder Bergstrom in his area. That day turned out to be a great day!! We had lots of success and ended up finding a new person that wants to get baptized for them! We committed the lady to be baptized and she accepted and then she said will you guys come with my family tonight for family night? So we said yes... well they ended up taking us laser tagging! It was so awesome of them and we had lots of fun! They had their 4 kids there and they paid for us to have unlimited and so we got to play with the kids for as long as we wanted! Really cool way to fellowship with their family! 

      Well things are going great for me here in Kalihi! Loving my mission and having a great time!! Thank you all so much for all you have done for me! hope you all have a great week!! 

Elder Gale

       

Aloha,

       This was a great week! Alex is still doing great and working towards his baptism! We spent our last Monday shopping for clothes for them! Their family doesn't have much so I decided that I wanted to get them some things. We finally have the 3 boys white shirts and ties and the oldest has pants. Still working on finding the younger boys pants. But they were so excited that we brought them clothes! This family is so awesome and I'm so glad that we have this chance to be with them! 

Our other investigators are doing great! Angela is still not sure what is stopping her from being baptized! We have challenged her to pray about it and she has many times but still feels that she isn't ready. We had a really good lesson with another less active family that their 9 year old daughter isn't baptized yet and so we are going to start teaching her!! 

       Thursday some other elders in our zone had 2 dinner appointments and lessons right after both so we said we could help them out and split with them. I was with Elder Mortensen and we went one of their dinners and then we went to our lesson. As we went to our lesson we were walking down the sidewalk in the housing and I saw Star.... Star is a very funny lady who yells at us every time we see her! She will tell us that we shouldn't be visiting people or just random funny things! Oh and she is most definitely on drugs.... One of my first transfers here she tried to spray us with her hose as she was watering.. Well this night we walked past and she was watering her lawn and side walk funny cause it was raining pretty hard... and I thought she might try and spray us so I walked off the sidewalk into the grass and didn't tell elder Mortensen.... I said hey Star and she quickly turned and said "I DON'T KNOW YOU!! HOW DO YOU KNOW MY NAME!!?!?" And then she sprayed elder Mortensen!! Elder Mortensen then realized that I was walking in the grass and he laughed and said you knew she would do that uh?? We got a really good laugh about that! Good thing she only got his ankle!

      

      Friday we were on exchanges with our zone leaders and I was with Elder Lee Chip Sao form Tahiti... We had some people in our area that I knew where from Tahiti and so I wanted to take him to see them. Well it worked out great! We got to see both of them and he ended up knowing their family! It turns out that one of them is a member!! She just didn't know what ward she was supposed to be in and where to go so now she knows! Pretty cool that we were only going to see them so he could talk to them in French and Tahitian and ended up finding out that they are members!! 

        We had a really good service project on Saturday all set up by the Just Serve program. It was at the Kakaako park where lots of homeless people live.. well we were all set to go and the night before a member called us and told us he had a lesson set for us at 9 am the next morning..... and the service started at 8 am.... He told us that this lesson was more important and that he couldn't reschedule it... We were pretty disappointed that we couldn't go but we ended up having a really good lesson and found another service project to do after.

       Things are going great her for us and having great success!! Thank you all so much for everything!! Hope you all have a great week! Hope to hear from you all soon!! 

Elder Gale

love doing Service

April 20th, 2015

Aloha,

    It's been another great week! 

So every Tuesday we have a correlation meeting with our ward mission leader and after we were done we went to our car and it had tape all over it! We didn't even have to think about who it was.... It was a sister in our ward that is always teasing us and playing jokes... Looks like we will have to get her back now;) 

    Our investigators are all doing great! Alex is doing great and still set for his baptism! It will be on May 16 so we are excited about that! 

We had a really good lesson with Angela and Sister Lupe was with us and she asked Angela.... What are you waiting for? Jus get baptized. We love how bold she is! Angela responded well I guess there is no reason for me to not to... So we left her with the challenge to pray about it! We are hoping and praying that she will feel she is ready! 

     So this Friday we had a pretty funny lesson... A less active member who is returning to church asked us to come teach his kids and a family friend of theirs. So we were excited and when we got to the lesson it ended up just being the family friend(Jimmy) and this brother.  We shared the Restoration with Jimmy and through the whole lesson the less active brother was trying so hard to help teach the lesson but he had no idea what he was saying. He kept saying very false things and so we had to fix those and that happened the whole lesson. Ha the funniest one he said was about the priesthood. He said there are different ranks and that he was at the priesthood rank right now and then he will go to the sacrament rank then to secretary and then Bishop.  We had to explain that we don't see the priesthood as ranks and that each priesthood calling is important and has its specific duties. Over all we felt like the spirit was there and helped Jimmy understand and hopefully not too confused. 

    Well things are going great here in Kalihi! I am loving my mission. I'm so grateful for my chance to serve and be a missionary! I hope we can all share the gospel and I know that we receive blessing for sharing! Thank you all so much for all you have done for me!! 

Elder Gale