Well this week has been a crazy week!  We ate dinner with our investigator family on Tuesday and it went great, we got to share a message with them and thought it was going great! We got a call from the wife who is a member and she told us that the husband is feeling over whelmed with all the attention that the ward has been giving him and she doesn't want us to come over till next month..... So that wasn't good! He was our only investigator that was really making progress!

     Our other investigator named Robin asked us not to come back till November because she is really busy so there went another. Then our other investigator that was supposed to be baptized this past Saturday fell off the face of the earth! We haven’t seen or heard from him in almost a month so all three of our main investigators dropped. We have had a great week for finding though! We have found 4 new potential investigators just this week so hopefully we can get some appointments set up with them! 

      We went to Honolulu this past Saturday to hear from Elder Holland and it was awesome! We all got to talk with him for a while and shake his hand! He was so nice and it was awesome to hear him speak! He is a great speaker and we all learned so much from him! He speaks with so much power and authority that you can’t help but listen! 

     This Sunday was crazy as well! We go to sacrament meeting and none of our investigators show up. As we were walking out of the meeting there was a non-member boy, that is 18 who just came to sacrament meeting, we taught him for an hour and twenty minutes and he seemed way interested. It was a miracle that he just decided to come to church all by himself! 

      We have had very interesting and crazy week as you can see but we have seen lots of miracles as well!! We went on exchanges twice this week and for the first I stayed in my area with Elder Kniff, everyone that we planned to go see was home! It was so awesome and the first time that has happened! We were able to talk with a guy named Gordon he is so nice and very open! He has met with missionaries in the past and he told us that he really missed having the missionaries over! Then the second exchange for the week I went to Waialua with a new Elder and that was very hard but I learned a lot! I learned that it is a lot easier to work when you get in and know the area! This new elder just doesn’t know his area that great and he has been here almost 1 transfer. He will be a great missionary he just had no idea what to do...... We were able to do service and see some of their investigators and it turned out to be a great learning experience!

    Hawaii is awesome and I love it here! It is starting to rain a lot more! This means that the rainy season is getting here!!?? But on the good side the weather is still about 75 degrees. Well I love all of you guys and hope to hear from you soon!

Love Elder Gale

Meeting Elder Holland was awesome! 

Learning to blow fire like a native :)

Moco Loco one of my favorite meals!

Zone conference

   

 Hey everyone how has your week been?? Our week has been great!! We had zone conference in Kaneohe with the Kaneohe zone and it was way cool! We had an awesome time meeting with the other zone and getting to know them. All of the new missionaries had the opportunity to give out testimonies and it was really neat to see how many new missionaries where there!! Then all of the old missionaries that are going home soon gave their testimonies as well. 

    We attended a baptism for a girl that is in the singles ward and it was way cool to see how ready she was to be baptized!! She was so excited and her baptism was awesome!! They had so much food after and there was like 15 missionaries there plus her family and there was still tons of food left over!!! Crazy and awesome haha they love their food here!! 

     We are working with a new investigator and he is supper solid!! His wife is a member and he is way open to hear more!! We also had 2 referrals from the visitor center sisters and we were able to visit both of them and one of them turned out to be a 20 year old girl who's 2 friends are leaving on missions soon and she wants to learn more!! It was so awesome to get a solid referral!! 

     One bad thing that happened this week was we went to visit our investigator with a date and he ran from us!!! It really sucked but i guess  he doesn't want to be baptized right now....... Hopefully he will come around! We are pretty sure he will get baptized but we just don't know when, we just need to get him to start following commitments and he will be good!!  So this Saturday we wont have a baptism anymore..... 

    This weekend Jeffery R. Holland is coming to talk to us and it is going to be so cool to hear him in person!! He will be speaking to all the missionaries that are on Oahu..... 

    Well it's been another great week!! And this transfer is flying by so fast!! Only 3 weeks left already!! I am loving it here and everything is going great!! I would love to hear from you all!! Love ya!!

Elder Gale

Baptism at zone conference

Love getting my mail

Hawaii is beautiful

Its going to be a good day

Our Zone

Kalena's baptism

Hey everyone, how has everyone’s week been?  Our week has been pretty good!! We had Kalena's baptism this past Saturday and it went so good!  He was so excited to be baptized!  My companion baptized him and then on Sunday we got to participate in his confirmation.  It was so cool being able to see the whole process of his conversion! 

     So other than the baptism we went to Pearl Harbor again this week to do service so that was fun!! We were on the U.S.S Missouri again and I think that we have now seen the whole ship!  It was way cool to be able to go in places that normal people can’t go. 

    We had service with brother Ortiz again this week and he has this pit bull that is really mean!  My goal is to get it to like me before I leave this area!  We are getting there because usually he won’t even let us near him, but now we have petted him and he is getting better!  The dog’s name is Koa and in Hawaiian it means warrior so he lives up to his name!! For our service we washed windows and then they fed us lunch.

    So we have had a dinner appointment every night this week and sometimes we will be done with dinner and go to our next appointment and they would feed us too "Elders Eat!"  

   We ate at our bishops house last night and they made us mashed potatoes and chicken!  That was the first time that I have eaten mashed potatoes since being here in Hawaii! 

   This week has been really good!  I am loving it here!  It rains almost every day which is really nice cause it cools us down as we are biking through our area. We finally have our bikes up and working and it is so much better than walking. Well thanks so much to all of you.  I love all of you and can’t wait to hear from you all again! 

Elder Gale

Kalena's baptism!

Meet Koa "Hawaiian Warrior"

USS Missouri

Kalena and his family!

Baptism September 7th

It's been another great week.... The weeks are flying by so fast!! We are having great success here in Mililani!! 

     We have a for sure date with Kalena this Saturday at 4:00 pm!!! We have the baptismal program all set and everything is ready!! He is way excited to get baptized! When we did the interview and he passed easy and he wanted one of us to baptize him!! This is my first baptism where I have been here for the whole process and so having him want us to baptize him was awesome!! My companion is going to be the one that baptizes him, I was so close to my first but I will get my chance!! We are so excited for him and can’t wait for Saturday to come!!! 

     For the most part this week we have been getting to know the new elders in our zone and we have 5 new elders.... And one of them is just fresh out of the MTC so we aren't the youngest anymore!!! All of the new elders are pretty cool, but I don't think it can beat our zone from last transfer.... We were all really close and always did stuff together.... This morning we went with Elder Maloata and Elder Parohinog to the beach park for one of their ward activities and all we did was eat. There was so much food and the people just kept telling us to eat!! We had a really good time just being able to hang out with the members.... 

      We have had a great week.... I can’t wait to hear from you all!! I love all of you and hope that everyone is doing great!! Love ya 

Elder Gale

Good day at the beach park with the members!

Miracles in Hawaii

Well another great week!! We have seen lots of miracles this week!!!! We were in ward council this morning and our bishop gave us a name of a new couple in our ward the wife is a member and the husband isn't...... The husband took the lessons before and is so close to baptism!! We already have 2 investigators with a date and now if we can get him it will be 3 for September!!! 

     We had our last lesson with Kalena today and it went great!! His baptism date was for this Saturday but things have once again come up and we had to push it back another week.... He is way excited for this date and is ready for it this time!! He is way cool and is super ready for baptism!!

     Ikaika is our other investigator with a date and he is way excited too!! He has a word of wisdom problem so we taught that as our first lesson and he said that he will commit to live the word of wisdom!! He hasn't had a problem since we committed him!! By Sept. 21 he will be ready for sure!!! 

    We had service with the Ortiz's again this Saturday and they feed us breakfast, lunch & dinner for that day!! It was way cool!! The Ortiz's are way good to us!! Bro. Ortiz is kind of crazy, he is still having us take out his front lawn!! He has like no front lawn now!! O well that's what he wants done, so we did it for him..... 

     Last night we had dinner with our Stake President, President Clark and his family...... They feed us breakfast for dinner and it was great!! After our dinner was over they took a pic of my companion and me, at their house and sent it to our parents!! That was really cool that they did that!! They have a son that is serving in the Salt Lake mission, and another son that just got his call to the same mission!! So if any of you see Elder Clark around Salt Lake it’s probably one of them!! The Clarks are way cool, we love going to their house for dinner!! 

     We have transfers this week and we were supposed to find out last night who is all staying in our zone but we still haven't heard for sure yet!! But as of last night they were going to take all of our district leaders out!! That will stink losing all of the leadership!! So hopefully they get it all fixed!! My companion and I are pretty safe on staying here unless something crazy happens...... 

  Well this week was a great week!! With lots of miracles and cool things happening in our area!! I love hearing from all of you and can’t wait to hear from you all soon!!

Love you all!!! 

Elder Gale

Eating at President Clark's! We love their family!

Temple trip with the Mililani Zone & meeting Mibi Bradshaw Harp

Elder Gale & Mibi Bradshaw Harp

Mililani Zone

Baptism for Kalena

Hey Everyone..... It’s been another great week!!

    Kalena our investigator is doing great!! His wife had her baby, so there should be nothing holding him back now!!! He is so ready to get baptized!! We ended up not having a lesson with him this week because of the baby but we have talked to him several times and he is doing great and is reading and praying!!

     We now have another with a date!! Ikaika now has a baptismal date for September 21st!!! He is so excited to get baptized and can’t wait!! He has a smoking problem but it shouldn’t be too hard to fix.... He wants to change and wants to make that difference in his life. He should be able to give it up pretty easy..... We had a lesson with him last night and we showed the restoration video and he loved it!! When we got over to share the video there was another girl named Tiffany that also lives with the Lee Family (Francis and Jamie). Tiffany watched the video with us and she was really interested and wants to learn more!! We were so excited to get a new investigator!! The Lee family is awesome!! Francis was baptized the first part of July and then his wife towards the end of July!! And Ikaika and Tiffany both live with them!! Because of the Lee family it has opened new opportunities for us to have new investigators!!

     Once every transfer we get to go to the temple and tomorrow we get to go as a zone!! It is going to be so awesome! I can’t wait to go to the temple here in Hawaii for the first time!!

     Well everything is going great and the work is progressing!! The rest of this month and the upcoming months should be great for us!! There are so many people here that are open to learn more!! We found out this morning that Jeffery R. Holland is coming to speak to our mission next month as well!! I can’t wait to be able to listen to him live!! Well I love you all and can’t wait to hear from you! I hope everything is going good.........

Elder Gale

P-day basketball game...The ball was stuck.....
This is how we got it down.......

Getting used to the rain in Hawaii!
It rains every day!!

Busy & Crazy week

Hey How is everyone doing?? This week was a great week!! And it went by so fast!! We Had a dinner appoinment every night this week!! Our members in the ward here are so awesome and make sure we have plenty to eat!! There was one night this week that  we didn’t have a dinner scheduled and we ended up eating with members anyway!

    

       We had zone exchanges this week and we got split up for a day.... I stayed in my area with a different elder, elder Villinueva. He was awesome to teach with and we had some great lessons in the short time that we were together! We were able to teach Robin and it went really good! Robin usually finds something that we talk about that she doesn’t agree with but this lesson was different and she loved everything that we taught her and the spirit was really strong during her lesson!!

  

       This week has been a crazy week too!! We have been yelled at 3 times just this week and 2 of them were in the same day!! We were walking and a car drove by and yelled at us and about 20 seconds later there were 2 cars chasing each other flying in and out of traffic! It was a crazy day!! Then later that night on our way to our dinner another car drove by us and a guy swore at us...... We just waved and kept on going. We both looked at each other and both had the same feeling, we both felt the spirit leave and we both had a sick feeling I have never felt that way before. At our dinner appointment we made up for it and had an awesome lesson with the family!!  

       Our lesson with Kalena went great this week! His baptismal date was scheduled for this Saturday but his wife is having her baby sometime this week and he wanted to move it back...... This will be the second time we have moved his date but he committed to August 31 and feels that he will be ready by then. In our lesson we covered the baptismal interview questions with him as if it was his real interview and he would have passed!! He is so ready!! After his wife has her baby he will be ready for sure!!

     Well I'm loving Hawaii and everything is going great!! The work here is great and progressing!! The people here are great!! The food is incredible and we never have to buy groceries, the members just give us leftovers to take home!! Well I love all you guys and love to hear from you have a great week!! Love ya

Elder Gale

Referrals are Powerful

                                                                                                

This week has been a good one! We have met with new families and had some good lessons. We went to see the Pierce family which was a referral from Julie Yardley and her family. We realized that they are in our area and so we went to their house and they weren't home.... We visited some other members in their area and ended up teaching a lesson to a non member and that went great! The girl we taught was really open to what we had to say and she is wanting to know more. She is moving to Oregon for college in 2 weeks so we will try and do everything we can before she leaves. After her lesson we went back over to the Pierce's and we talked with them for almost 2 hours...... It was really good talking with them and they were surprised when I told them that I knew Julie and her family! Larry Pierce told us that we were possibly the only missionaries that he had ever allowed to actually stay and talk with him at his house! I really believe that it was because we knew people that they know! That just shows you how powerful a referral can be!!

      

 Our weekly lesson with Robin fell through, she had to go into work at the last minute but we have a lesson with her tomorrow. She is really catching on to the gospel. She is really strong in her church but when she comes around she is going to catch on fire! She is going to be a great member some day!! Her faith in Christ is amazing! And she really believes that God answers prayers!! She is just struggling with prophets! We will continue to work with her and she will be great!! 

   For one of our dinner appointments this week we got invited to a big Luau for a wedding reception!! It was crazy! There was so much food and the people were so fun to watch!! The food was amazing and there was no way that we were leaving there hungry, everyone just kept saying "Elders Eat!!" and they would bring us more and more food!!  Hawaiians love their food!!! 

    This Sunday was my first fast Sunday here in Hawaii! It was awesome to hear all of the testimonies from the members in our ward!! One of our recent converts got up and bore his testimony and it was amazing!! The spirit was so strong when he spoke and if you didn't know any better you would think that he has been a member his whole life!! He loves the Gospel and knows so much!!! I love seeing our converts grow!! 

     We had another lesson with Kalena at bishop's house and it went great. Kalena has his baptismal date for the 17th of this month and he is totally ready!! The only thing that will  be hard for him is that his wife is due any day to give birth and so we are hoping that the baby can come already so he can commit to a date for sure!! Other than that he is for sure ready for baptism!!

     For P-day today we went bowling on the military base!! It was awesome and we had a great time! We basically had the whole place to our self!!! 

      I'm loving Hawaii and everything is going great here!! I would love to hear from you all!! Letters or email would be great! Thanks so much for everything you have all done for me!! Love you all!! 

Elder Gale

The "Big Storm".......just wind, rain and yellow skies!

Our apartment is now CLEAN!

Bowling for P-Day

Taytum made Tanner promise to keep her art work:)