Aloha,

     This week was a big learning experience for me and one I will never forget! We saw so many miracles happen this week and it made me realize the love our father in heaven has for each and everyone of us no matter what we have done he still loves us and wants to bless us! 

      Wednesday was our Pearl Harbor service as a zone... Always fun to go and do service on the Battle ship. We had a really great service and then the guy that helps us when we are there(Kevin) took us to the Utah memorial site, really cool to see what is left of the ship.. cant see much other than the top sticking out of the water. After our service was over we had a very busy day planned! We got ready and went strait to meet up with one of our members. We went around in one of the housing areas with this member and visited 5 families......  These families were families we have been trying to see for quite a while and we have never been able to catch them home... well turns out that we got to see all 5! I realized how much we need the members to be involved in missionary work! We tried to visit these families on our own but for other reasons could not get in. But when this member was with us she was able to be super bold and tell them things that we as missionaries cant! Because of the member we got 3 new investigators and 4 return appointments! I know that this is the way our father in heaven wants us to do his missionary work! Members and missionaries together. 

       Our investigators are all doing pretty good. We weren't able to see Robert this week and we haven't  been able to contact him. We are hoping that things are still going good with him and maybe he just needed some time. We are still working with Pua, Angela and Alia on working towards their baptisms. We are really focusing on the 2 new families that we are starting to teach. They both have 2 unbaptized children and they want them baptized! Things are picking up here in our ward and area and we are getting lots of help from our ward! They are now getting on board with investigators and wanting to help them! We are getting calls almost daily from members asking if they can go out with us! 

       Well I am loving my mission and learning so much about myself and about this gospel! I truly know that this gospel is true and that our savior Jesus Christ is our loving brother and that our father in heaven loves us more than we can know! I am so grateful to be a missionary and for my chance to learn and to grow spiritually. Thank you all so much for all your love and support I really do appreciate all you have done for me! 

Elder Gale 

       

Aloha, 

      It's been another great week!! This past Tuesday we went to the Temple as a zone. Always great to have a good Temple trip! And after the Temple we always eat at North Shore Tacos!! Best place ever! 

     We got to see some people this week that we haven't been able to see for a while so that was awesome!! We found a less active family that has been lost for a while and their kids were talking to us and that's how we found them! One of the kids is baptized and then the other 3 aren't yet!! Hoping that we can start teaching them!! 

      Our investigator Angela is doing great, got to see her for the first time in a couple weeks and had a really great lesson with her! She has had 13 sets of missionaries! She wants to know everything before she gets baptized and no matter how many times we tell her she will never know everything she still wants to wait and learn more! So we keep praying for her and hope that Heavenly Father will tell her when it's time! 

     Robert is doing great!! We have a awesome time teaching him!! He makes our job so easy! He asked us if we can do 2 lessons a week instead of 1 and if it is alright if he brings friends!! Love when they do that!! We have a cottage meeting tonight, he asked if he could go with us and if he could speak! A cottage meeting is where recent converts give their testimonies and we bring investigators! He already wants to speak!! So excited for him and where he will go with the gospel!! 

         Our Saturday service project was really fun! Spent the day doing shingles on a roof for one of our member's! We got all the old ones off and then it decided to rain! We were soaked cause we stayed out in the rain to get the felt paper down so the rain wouldn't go through.... Then we covered the tools and got off the roof just in time for the rain to stop again!  So back up we went and got all the roof done except we were one bundle of shingles sort to finish the last part so we had to cover it with tarps till he can buy some more! Had a good time helping out and had fun! Got to talk to a less active member that was helping to so that was cool! 

      Last night we had a awesome dinner with a Tongan family in our ward the Finau's! They invited lots of people to eat with us! None member families, part member families and less actives. Was really neat to see how many people came and got to meet lots of potential people to teach! One of their tenants is a family who is interested in meeting with us and they were there at the dinner. We got to meet them and talk shortly with them. Awesome to see how much desire to share the gospel this family has!! I'm sure the missionaries in your ward/area would love that too!! Please try and find someone to invite! Makes missionary work so much easier! 

        I am loving my mission and am so very grateful for my chance to serve our father in heaven and the people here in Hawaii! It has been a blessing for me! Thank you all for everything you have done for me!! I love each and everyone of you! Hope you all have a great week! And please remember to share your missionary experiences with me!! 

Elder Gale

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