Aloha Everyone

    We have had a really good week. Things are looking really good here in our ward. When I first got here our work was going super slow. But we have just found some new families to teach and they are great. We are very excited to see them progress. Our investigators are great. Kawika is getting married on July 12th and then his baptism is July 26th. He is so ready for the gospel in his life. He is our main investigator right now but we have lots of new investigators that we have just started to teach.

     President and Sister Warner came to Maui this past week and spent a couple days with our zone. It was awesome to be with them and to meet with them. We had our interviews with them and got to talk to them about how our areas were doing. It is always nice to see them.

     Well Makawao is by far my favorite place I have served so far! I love the country feel that it gives. On average we drive around 40 to 50 miles each day. That is crazy but our area is so big and spread out that there is no other way. We see farms, horses and cows each day and it makes me feel like I'm back in Beaver  (100X greener here but the country feel is awesome). The roads in our area are all super narrow and enclosed by green on both sides so that makes driving very interesting.

    Maui is great and I am loving my mission. I am very thankful for my chance to serve the people here and to serve our Heavenly Father. Thank you for all you have done for me. I hope you all have a great week.

Elder Gale

Aloha Everyone

     Wow this week was a great week! It was also a very crazy week. On Tuesday we were going around saying goodbye to people and our car decided to have problems. Our check battery light came on so we called Elder Mayfield and he said if the car was drive-able not to worry about it cause we needed it for transfers, well while we were on the phone with him our power steering went out. So he said we needed to take it into the shop right away. So we went with out our car for the last day. Tuesday night I had to pack all of my things and get ready for my flight. I stayed up most of the night making sure I had everything ready to go. So I didn't get much sleep. We left our pad at 5:15 Am to head to the airport. My flight to Maui left at 7:30 Am. There were 10 of us flying together so that was good. On the plane I sat with a greenie missionary and a lady who was sick the whole ride, which was only 30 minutes. She was throwing up the whole time so that was nasty! We got to Maui and I met my new comp Elder Hatch. He is a very interesting Elder. Our Area is the Makawao ward, we are up country and it is a great area. It is so green and farm country. We see horses, cows and chickens everyday and I love it so much better than the city. The work is going pretty slow here in our area but that's OK, but are trying our best and having a good time.

    This morning for p-day our zone leaders Elders Rigby and Fitau came over with us and the Pukalani Elders and we went and drove up Haleakala. Up on the very top is a park and lots of people come to watch the sunrise. We had to leave super early but it was fun. Up on top is way cold. I think it was around 45 degrees this morning and it felt like we were back in Utah. The sunrise wasn't that great this morning because there were too many clouds but it was still fun to try it. The rest of p-day we are meeting up with the other missionaries and going to play tennis or baseball so that will be fun!

     My district is a pretty chill district! It is Elder Hatch (from Arizona) and I, the Pukalani Elders Lee, Chips, Sao (from French Polynesia) and Speakman (from Idaho), and the we have the Hana senior couple in our district so that is different but cool! We never see them so not too much to worry about! 

    Maui is awesome! I am very excited to be on a different island and to experience the life style. There is a huge difference from Oahu and Maui. The people are so much more laid back and just no worries. The off island life is a lot less stress and more fun. Glad to be here and to be able to serve the people here! I hope you all have a great day! Thank you all so much for everything! Love all of you!

Elder Gale

The first church in Hawaii....

The Book of Mormon was translated in to Hawaiian here

Maui is so beautiful

So happy to see horses and cows

My new zone

View from Haleakala

I feel like I am in the country

It was cold and a little rainy this morning

                                                                                                                                                  6/16/14

Aloha Everyone

     This was a good week. It has been a little slower for us but still hanging in there. So the big news for the week! I got a call from President Warner this past Friday and he told me I would be transferring to Maui serving in the Makawao ward and that my new companion will be Elder Hatch who just got done with his training and has been out 4 months. I will also stay as a district leader so I am supper excited to experience a new island and see new places. Maui will  be awesome! Elder Gardner will be leaving as well he will be going to Laie.

    Today for p-day our zone leaders asked if it would be alright if we went out of zone to hike and President said yes. So our zone left at 5:30 am to get to Diamond Head and hike. There was so many tourists but it was still a great hike it was a great view of Oahu. We had lots of fun.

    The rest of our day will be packing, seeing members, investigators and saying good bye. Super sad to leave this area and ward, but way excited to have change! Last night we ate with our Bishop and they were way sad that we are going to be transferred! We got to hang out and talk with them for quite a while. I will miss them they are great people!

    Well that is what is happening here. Things are great and I cant believe that it has almost been 1 year since I left. That is too crazy. Well thank you so much for everything. Love you all!

Elder Gale

At our Bishops home.....sad to leave them

Elder Gardner & Elder Gale on the pday hike

The views were awesome

Let me out........

Aloha Everyone!

   

     This has been another great week. We had our combined zone meeting where our zone got together on Tuesday for district meeting and that was way fun and good to have all of our zone together.  On Wednesday we had Pearl Harbor Service. It was awesome this time!  Elder Gardner and I got asked to help re-wire part of the ship, so we spent most of our time with the electrician. We pulled new wire for internet because the ship has so many old wires and most of them aren't even working.  They just don't know which ones to take out and which ones to leave.  We had a lot of fun doing that and it was just like I was back home.  After we were done the electrician told us that we could look around for a bit and then find the rest of our group so for the past 5 or 6 times I have been trying to find the Eagles nest on the ship and each time I got close but didn't get to it.... Well this time we found the stairs that go right up to it.  It was way cool to be at the very top of the ship looking down!

      Our investigators are ok.... We are having some big struggles with one of them. But we know they can work through their problems and make things work. We have some new people that we have just started to teach and they are awesome.  Caleb and his family are open to having us share lessons and he always loves to talk sports with us.  Yesterday he texted our phone when game 2 of the NBA championship series was over and told us the score. but I'm not sure if he is supposed to do that.  We are having good success with some of the investigators and then the others are struggling, but we know that they can still progress.

     It was our Stake Conference yesterday and it was a really good meeting... Our mission president and his wife spoke along with the temple president and his wife.  They were all very good speakers.  Half way through the conference we had to go fill the baptismal font for a baptism.  We have been working with a less active family to get their 8 year old son baptized and yesterday was his baptism.  Right after Conference we held his baptism it was way cool because they asked if Elder Gardner would baptize him and if I would confirm him. It was a great experience to see how happy the family was.

  

    Well I hope everything is going great back home for you all.  I love and miss all of you and hope you are doing good.  I hope to hear from you all soon and thank you so much for everything!

Elder Gale 

Aloha Everyone!

   I hope you are all having a great week!  This was a great week for us! We were way busy and lots of miracles.  It seemed like everyone we needed to see was home and we love it when that happens.  Our investigators are all doing pretty good and they are all working and progressing, but still having their struggles... We are helping them as best as we can to help them progress!

    We were able to go on an exchange with our zone leaders this past Saturday and it was really good to be with them and help each other out.  I was with Elder Fitau in his area and we had a great day and had so many great things happen. We also had a district flood... Where all of our district got together and we tracted in one area to help each others areas! It was a huge success!  We have done it now for the past couple weeks and it is really helping our district find new investigators that want to learn!

    Other than that our week has been a normal week for us.  The weather is always the same, warm and we get rain every couple of days.  I am loving it here in our ward and loving Hawaii!  I am very grateful for my chance to serve my mission and serve our father in heaven!  Thank you all for everything and I really appreciate all that you do for me!  I would love to hear from you all!

Elder Gale

http://youtu.be/qKJXPmaXLUY

Sunset in Hawaii

May 28, 2014

Aloha Everyone:

    This week was a good week. Because of the holiday we were not able to email on Monday so we get to email today. I hope everyone is having a great week.

      So we were supposed to have a baptism this past weekend but our investigator had a word of wisdom problem that we didn't know about... She was really discouraged when we told her we have to postpone her baptism but now she is working on her word of wisdom and still wants to be baptized. So we are really happy and excited that she is still wanting to learn and be baptized.
Our other investigators are good still working hard to help them progress. We are supposed to have another baptism this Saturday but the parents of our investigator still don't want him to be baptized... Even though he is 19 and can make his own choice he wants to have his parents permission and doesn't want to push them away. So we are hoping and praying that all will go well for him.

    We had Zone Conference yesterday. It was great to get together with Waipahu Zone and to see all of the missionaries. There was almost 15 missionaries there that came out the same time with me so it was really cool to see all of them again. We got to meet the new missionary couple Elder and Sister Mayfield. They will be helping out in the office Elder Mayfield will be in charge of cars and Sister Mayfield is in charge of health... so it will be good to have them in the mission. As always the food was great and so much of it!

    Well things here are going great! Loving every minute of my mission! Thank you all for everything you have done for me. I hope to hear from you all soon. Love you!


Elder Gale

Zone conference 

The Nanakuli wall

Zone conference

May 19th, 2014
Aloha Everyone:

     This week has been a really great week. Our investigators are ok, Jessica is still scheduled for her baptism this Saturday. Chereame is struggling with her word of wisdom still but she wants to quit so bad. We know that she can do it! Jeremy is doing great just waiting to see if his parents will allow him to be baptized.

     We had a great Sunday.... We were asked to do about everything at church. Ha but that's the life of a missionary. We said the opening and closing prayers for sacrament meeting, taught the gospel principles class, taught primary, ohh and yeah we get to speak next week. Got to love being the go to people. Our ward is really awesome. They are great people and trying their best to help us with anything we need.

     The past couple days have been raining none stop, and its super hot so really muggy and humid! But I love it when it rains. Everything is so green after it rains a lot. Things are going great here. I am loving it. I hope your all having a great week. I love all of you and hope to hear from you soon! Thank you all for everything.

Elder Gale

Us exercising in our living room

My new apartment

May 12th, 2014

Aloha Everyone:

     I hope you all had a great mothers day. It was awesome to talk to my family yesterday. Thank you to all of you that came over to talk to me I love all of you.

      This has been a good week. We were able to go with some of our investigators to watch them dance hula this past Saturday. It was really cool to see all of the members and investigators that we know dancing. After it was over we were invited to eat with the hula halau. We went to a Chinese restraint but it wasn't really Chinese. It was way more Hawaiian (haha) huge proportions and so much food!! We had a great time being with our investigators.

      So my companion was sick all Saturday night and all of Sunday.... That made working really hard. He did get to Skype his family so that was great. He is feeling a lot better now and should be good.

     Not much else has changed. Everything is still going great. Loving every minute of my mission. Our investigators are all doing great and working towards their baptism dates. We are really excited for them and hope everything will work our for them. Please keep them in you prayers.

      Well I hope all of you have a great week. I love you and cant wait to hear from you all!!

Elder Gale

We are going to the hookie  lau

Aloha Everyone:

       This has been another great week and I am getting used to this new ward and it is really good.  The people here like always are great and we have some awesome investigators! We are working with 3 people that have a baptism date, they are Jeremy, Jessica, and Cheremie... they are all going great and ready for their baptisms.  There is a lot of work in our ward which makes it much easier on us because we stay really busy.

   So transfers are this week and I will be staying in Makakilo Zone in the Kapolei Ward.... So not too much will change for me and there are lots of new elders coming into our zone this transfer.  I think about half of our zone will change, but it will be good!

Well sorry it is kind of short.. things are going great here.  Our zone is going bowling for p-day later today so that will be fun... I love all of you... Thank you so much for everything and hope you all have a great week!

Elder Gale

New Address:

92-1136 Panana St #309

Kapolei, HI 96707

Aloha Everyone:

     This week has been a very interesting and crazy week for me! So there was an Elder in my zone that was leaving this past Friday to go home cause he was done with his mission.... well when he left there was no one to replace him in his area. President Warner called and asked me to move over with Elder Gardner for the next couple of weeks until transfers on May 7th.  So I am now in the Kapolei ward... Since there were 4 Elders in my last ward they are now in a tri-companionship until transfers as well... So it has been a big change, but things are going good.  I love Elder Gardner and we get along great.  It will be very interesting to see what will happen when transfers come... I could still end up leaving or I could end up staying in this new area.... Which ever way will be great!

     Other than getting transferred it is pretty much the same.  Things are still going great here.  Today for p-day we went on a hike to Kaena Point which was the second time I have done it and it is an awesome hike!  We had lots of fun.  Well I hope everything is going great for all of you and I hope you all have a great week! I love you so much thank you for everything!  Hope to hear from you all soon!

Elder Gale

Tuias Family

Elder Gale & Natalia (our ward mission leader's daughter)

Kaena Point

Our ward mission leader's family

Our P-day hike to Kaena Point