According to the book, "Moramona - The Mormons in Hawaii" by R. Lanier Britsch

published by The Institute for Polynesian Studies, Brigham Young University - Hawaii, some stories were retold in a few Chapters concerning Hawaiian Chief Levi Haalelea.

Mission Growth - Translating The Book of Mormon

When the Book of Mormon came to Hawaii with the Early LDS Missionaries, Chief Levi Haalelea was eager to help fund the press of the Book of Mormon in Hawaiian.

"A Hawaiian High Chief named Levi Haalelea had become interested in the gospel and was attending meetings regularly. He was a man of considerable influence and wealth, as well as a member of the King's Privy Council. Less than a month after the conference, he suggested his willingness to help finance the press. In January 1854 he loaned the mission five hundred dollars for one year to be paid back with interest."

"The LDS missionaries to Hawaii came armed with the same spiritual beliefs that had motivated and guided their colleagues in other parts of the world...About two weeks after the conference, on 19 October (1853), the committee visited the little island of Lanai. The visit was the suggestion of Elder Hammond, who had previously been there, and all hoped it would make a suitable gathering place for the Hawaiian Saints...

During the next nine months several locations on Molokai and Kauai were seriously considered as settlement sites. Nearly every tract of land proposed belonged to Chief Haalelea. He had offered to lease or sell land in late October 1853 and spent a great deal of time with the elders trying to help them find the right site. The missionaries in Honolulu studied his plans carefully. In January 1854 the elders on Kauai were convinced that they had found the best place, but after talking over the financial arrangements with Haalelea, they concluded that the rent would be immpossibly high. Again they turned their attention to Lanai."

"In February 1854 the missionaries and Chief Haalelea made a tentative agreement. Elder Hammond met with Haalelea in Honolulu, and the Chief offered to "give us the priviledge of going onto his land there (on Lanai) for the space of four years and try what we could do, without any charge, and after that if we wanted it longer we should then pay something for it" Other locations were still considered, but the elders were moving more and more in the direction of Lanai..."

The Closing of The Mission -

September 4, 1857 President Brigham Young wrote to the Missionaries in Hawaii - "The reports from the Sandwich Islands have for a number of years agreed in one thing, that is, that the majority of the Saints on these Islands have either been dead or dieing Spiritually - it would appear that they occasionally spasmodically resuscitate for a few moments, only to sink lower than they were before...I think it best for all of the Elders (with one or two exceptions) to come home...You had better wond up the whole of your business and return with most of the Elders as soon as possible."

"When the mission closed, the Saints on Lanai had one year left in their experimental period. A better gathering place had not yet been found Haalelea had assured the missionaries that the Saints were free to stay until the fifth year was up and then he would make arrangements to collect rent on the land or sell it to the Church. Thus stood the matter when the Utah elders left."

"The annual rent, set at $175, was large considering the relatively poor crops that had been produced. Not long after the Utah elders departed, Haalelea offered the Lanai Saints all his holdings, around ten thousand acres, for the small sum of three hundred dollars. It seems likely that he had been willing to lease the land to the Saints in the first place not only because he was friendly to the Church but because he considered the land useless."

That statement is clearly the Author of this books opinion, due to How Beautiful and Priceless Hawaii Truly is. My Chief Haalelea LOVED his land, his people and Ke Akua. He was a true Christian. A True Hawaiian who gave everything in his control to Ke Akua.

However in his book it goes on to say, "He may have felt that it would be to his advantage to unload the property at any cost. But the Hawaiian Saints ran into financial problems and did not purchase the land. Some kind of arrangement may have been made with Haalelea, for the Saints were not forced to leave Lanai. It may be surmised that he either received rent or simply remained patient with the Lanai Saints. The latter course would be in keeping with his previous actions and with the kindly temperament of the Hawaiian People."

Yes that would be a more better statement about Levi Haalelea, what ever he had he wanted to share with his people.