*GOOD BYE 2012 & HAPPY NEW YEAR 2013 from ARIZONA*

Aloha Family and Friends,

How are you all doing?  Well as for me, I am doing pretty good here in Buckeye - Sharing the Gospel.  I was sick the past week with a cold so that was not fun.  Wednesday night, I started to get a bad cough and Thursday & Friday I was really sick so we stayed inside and I got some rest.  Saturday, I started to feel better so I pushed myself to go out and do missionary work because It was killing me to stay inside when there is people out there searching for the Gospel.  This week was a pretty hard week for us because Christmas Eve and Christmas Day we did not do missionary work because of the holiday's and with me being sick for for 2 days.  We still had a productive week of Sharing the Gospel.  We had a good lesson on the Plan of Salvation with Mike and his Family.  We did not get to meet with Allie and Maria this week because they were busy with the holiday's.  We are planing to re-commit Allie to be baptized on January 12.  She is so ready to get baptized and enter into that covenant with God and receive the Holy Ghost to help her.  We hope she can tell her mom about her desire to be baptized and that she is supportive.  We also hope to meet with Maria and continue to help her be baptized.  Our big focus is finding investigators because we are a little low on investigators right now with 3 wards, but we know that as we continue to have Faith, be Obedient, and work hard that the Lord will bless us and guide us to those that he is preparing to receive the Gospel.  We had a great zone activity this morning, we hiked up a big hill that was pretty steep but the view at the top was wonderful to see Arizona's Sunrise.  We had a great spiritual testimony meeting on the top about the Atonement of our Savior, Jesus Christ and how through his Love and Sacrifice we can return to live with God and our Families Forever.  We have to continue to have an Eternal perspective and endure through the trials in life and thank God for everything he has blessed us with.  Great analogy of the hike was how life is hard sometimes with many obstacles and boulders that we have to climb over but part of our life here on earth is to learn and grow, we go through hard times to make us stronger and with Gods help nothing is to hard that we cannot conquer.   On Saturday, we visited with a referral that we got from church headquarters and had a great discussion with him on his doorstep for about 40 minutes on the Gospel and how he can be blessed.  He went through some challenges in life that made him want to learn more about our religion and give him spiritual guidance.  It was so wonderful testifying to him about the restored Gospel.  We gave him a Bbook of Mormon to read and a Restoration pamphlet.  He is 25 years old so we probably going to hand him to the YSA Elders so he can have better fellowshiping at the Singles Ward, but still great to plant the seed of the Ggospel and help him feel our Heavenly Father's love for him.  Well that was my week here in the mission field.  I am so grateful to our Heavenly Father for giving me this wonderful priviledge this past year to be on my mission and doing the Lord's work and helping all those that I helped have the joy and happiness that comes from living the Gospel.   I am so grateful for all the spiritual experiences and everything I learned on my mission so far.  My testimony of the Gospel has grown so much this past year from my studies, teaching, and testifying of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and our Heavenly Father's plan to have Eternal Life with him so our Families can be Together Forever.  I look forward to what 2013 has in store for me on my mission here in Arizona as I continue to learn and teach the Gospel to our brothers and sisters.  Hope everyone has a wonderful and safe New Year's.  I hope you all have a New Year's resolution to continue to live the Gospel more fully in your lives and becoming more like our Savior and following his example. Praying and studying the Gospel more and Sharing the Gospel with your family, friends, and anyone that you meet.  I promise as you do you receive & enjoy greater blessing in your lives and feel the spirit more abundently in your lives.  You are always in my prayers.  Till next year take care. 

Love,

Elder Lance Kuhi Cabral  

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!    

*IT'S CHRISTMAS TIME IN BUCKEYE WITH A SPIRITUALLY, FUN-FILLED WEEK*

Aloha Family and Friends,

How are you all doing? How was your Christmas?  Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas with family and friends celebrating the Birth of our Savior Jesus Christ.  I had a great Christmas in Buckeye with many wonderful families.  We first was with the Maxwells that we live with opening presents, Skype their son Braden who is serving his mission in France, then we had breakfast with the Cutler family, and opened some more presents at the Maxwells. I had a wonderful time calling home & talking with ALL my family then we had dinner with the Luciers, then the Garzas, the Andersons, and finally ended the day with the Dobbs family.  It was surely a fun and busy Christmas.  Well this past week was a spiritually packed week.  On Wednesday we had our half mission Christmas Conference which was so wonderful with powerful talks by President Taylor on the Birth of Christ and how through his atonement we can have the greatest gift of Eternal Life.  There was a strong spirit as each zone missionary did a musical selection that was so peaceful to hear and feel.  Then we went to the Mesa Temple and had an opportunity to do an endowment session.  It was so amazing to be in the House of the Lord to do temple work for others and refresh the covenants that we made in the Temple.  It was wonderful to be there with half our mission.  Then we got to cruise around the Temple grounds and see the colorful Temple lights that they have during Christmas and hear the wonderful music by the choir.  We had a great lesson with 2 new investigators on Thursday with Brenda and Vernon, we gave them a church tour and taught them the Restoration of the Gospel.  They seem very interested and feel it is time to learn more about Christ.  We also had a great spirit with Allie on the commandments to prepare her for her baptism.  She was supposed to be baptized this Saturday but she has not told her mother that she is getting baptized so she might get baptized in a few weeks.  We helped her to pray and have the courage to tell her mom about her desire to be baptized.  We also went with Allie and her husband Brandon who is a member to the Temple lights to show them the Temple lights, Visitors center, and the strong spirit of the Temple.  She had a great time and some of her family came along.  We had a wonderful Sabbath Day at church with wonderful talks on our Savior Jesus Christ and Serving others.  There were great music by the ward Choirs and Primary that always brings the Spirit so strong.  Well that was my wonderful Christmas week in the mission field - Sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ and helping others enjoy the blessings that come from receiving and living the Gospel and having the Holy Ghost to help them stay on the straight path towards Eternal life.  I love and miss you all.  You are all in my prayers. 

Love Always,

Elder Lance Kuhi Cabral

*IT IS A BUSY TIME IN BUCKEYE SHARING THE GOSPEL IN 3 WARDS - FAREWELL ELDER ROMRELL & OTHERS*

Dear Family and Friends,

How are you guys doing?  How's your holiday season going?  Well, I am doing great here in the mission field - Sharing the Gospel and helping others receive the Gospel.  It was a pretty crazy week with Elder Romrell finishing his mission and Transfers.  I did not get transferred, it was a mix up that I was on the transfer text.  My new companion is Elder Severe, he is from Wyoming and has been out for 3 months.  We are short on missionaries this transfer so we lost a companionship in our district and combined their wards with ours.  So for this transfer Elder Severe and myself cover 3 wards in Buckeye 1st, Sundance, and Estria Hills Wards - so we are quite busy and have to really plan our days effectively because we only have 1200 miles for the month.  Elder Severe and his last companion covered Estria Hills and Palo Verde but the other companionship in our district took Palo Verde Ward.  There was a bit of confusion of which wards we were going to cover but we figured it out.  Well despite our challenges we had cover an additional ward.  We had a great week doing missionary work.  We had a wonderful lesson with Allie Delgado on the Book of Mormon and going over the Articles of Faith.  She felt the spirit so strongly that she asked us if she could invite her mother to meet with us and we said sure.  It is so great to see people feel the spirit and have a burning desire to share the Gospel with others so they can have the joy and happiness that comes from the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  We also had a great lesson with the Hornberger's kids on remembering the true meaning of Christmas - celebrating the Birth of our Savior Jesus Christ.  On Friday, we had a great Christmas party for Sundance Ward, Allie, the Hornberger's, and a few less actives came and had a great time.  Then on Saturday we had a Christmas party for Estria Hill, which had delicious food and a wonderful Christmas program.  Sunday was a long day for us covering 3 wards we had to go to the Eason building for Estria Hills sacrament at 8:30 am then we drive to the Sundance Building for Sundance sacrament at 10 am for gospel principles then all 3 meetings for Buckeye 1st ward at 12 pm.  Great Christmas talks with Allie, the Hornberger's kids came to  church for this was the 1st time since I have been here, and Katrina Miller in Estria Hills.  We also met with some new investigators Jared and Darlene which we got to know them and answer their questions about the church.  The weather is starting to get cold.  It rained for a few days this past week which was nice because we needed it.  Well that was my week in the mission field.  Hope everyone is having a great holiday season and sharing the great gift, our Heavenly Father gave us which is his only begotten son - Jesus Christ that atoned for each and everyone one of us so as we show our love to him and live his Gospel so we can have Eternal life.  I love and miss you all.  You are all in my prayers. 

Take Care Love,
Elder Lance Cabral

*ALOHA ELDER ROMRELL - READY FOR A NEW ADVENTURE / IT IS TRANSFER TIME*

Aloha Family and Friends,

How are you all doing?  Well as for me, I am doing great here in Buckeye - Sharing the Gospel and helping others Come unto Christ.  This week we had some great lessons with our investigators.  We taught Allie Delgado this week in their new home that is in our area.  It was a great lesson because we started teaching her the commandments, obedience, prayer, scriptures, and the Sabbath day.  We committed her to read and pray daily and we keep following up with her to make sure she is doing it.  She is doing really well and we are preparing her for her Baptism on December 29.  We also had a good lesson with the Hornberger kids on  the Plan of Salvation, using teaching aids for kids is really helpful in helping them understand our Heavenly Father's wonderful plan for all of us to return to live with him and our Families Forever.  We also helped a less active family move because they are moving to Indiana and they had a U-Haul that we were packing and a house full of furniture and stuff so it was a bit of a challenge making things fit so we had to prioritize the most important things because a lot did not fit.  We also had a great Christmas Party on Friday for the Buckeye 1st Ward which had a great turnout and a few investigators that had a great time.  We also had a really good Zone meeting on Friday on the importance of prayer and helping people become fully converted in the Gospel so they can continue to progress in the Gospel, baptism and the receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost is the start of their conversion everything we do in the Gospel should lead us to the Temple and make those covenants with God so we can reach Eternal life in the Celestial Kingdom.  We also did a lot of visits with members, recent converts, and investigators because Elder Romrell was finishing his mission.  On Monday, he packed up his stuff and a member in Buckeye 1st ward took him to the Mission Office for his exit interview and spend his last night in the Mission home with the rest of the departing missionaries that are going home.  I hope he has a good trip home and continues to do well in his life and remember the things he learned on his mission.  I am now with the district leader and his companions until transfer tomorrow.  It was really shocking for me when I got transfer news this morning and I AM GETTING TRANSFERRED so I am going to another area again.  I thought I was going to take over the area and get a new companion.  I was just starting to get to know the area and the members.  I had a good time here in the short time that I was here.  Well that was my fun week here in the mission field doing the Lord's work.  I look forward to my next adventure in my new area and another companion to go two by two sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ and helping others feel our Heavenly Father's love for them.  I love and miss you all.  Hope you all having a great holiday season and remember the true meaning of Christmas, celebrating the Birth of our Savior Jesus Christ and how through his atonement we can have Eternal life.  Your in my prayers for our Heavenly Father to bless you all.  Til' next week take care and have a wonderful week. 

Love,
Elder Lance Kuhi Cabral

*THE PLAN OF SALVATION IS WHERE IT STARTS & "SERVICE" IS GREAT IN BUCKEYE**

Dear Family and Friends,

How are you all doing?  Well as for me, I am doing great here in Buckeye - Sharing the Gospel and helping others Come unto Christ.  The weather is still really nice starting to get chilly during the morning and evening.  This week we had a wonderful lesson with Allie Delgado on the Plan of Salvation and committed her to be baptized on December 29.  It was spiritually a great lesson with 4 members that bearded their testimonies including her newly married husband.  She had some great questions which helped her understand it.  We drew the plan out for her and it works really well to help her understand our Heavenly Father's plan for us to come to earth and show our Heavenly Father that we want to return to live with him and our family for eternity in the Celestial Kingdom.  She felt a little scared to commit to a date but we helped her feel comfortable to make a goal to shoot for to help her prepare for baptism to receive a remission of sin and receive the precious gift of the Holy Ghost to help her stay on the right path towards our Heavenly Father.  On Saturday, Allie and her husband Brandon finally moved into our area after waiting months for their house to be completely built.  So we went over and helped them move in.  We also had a lesson with Rhoda and tried to answer some of her concerns and help her.  She has been taught for a long time and has a hard time living some commandments especially giving up smoking.  We also took the Randall Family who are recent converts that got baptized in October to the Family History Center to help them research their ancestors and hopefully soon take the names of their ancestors to the Temple and be Baptized in their behalf.  It was great to learn about family history so we can use it as another finding method to share with those that might be interested in genealogy.  This week we did a lot of finding investigators through members and prayer tracting.  With this Christmas season we are inviting members to Share the Gospel with their family and friends by inviting them to checkout mormon.org/christmas and invite them to meet with the missionaries and we can come over and share a Christmas message with them.  It is going well no referrals yet but we know with Faith that we will be able to find those that the Lord is preparing to receive the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  Well that was my great week in the mission field.  I hope everyone is doing well.  I know that the Gospel is true and the Church of Jesus Christ has been restored to the earth through Joseph Smith.  We continue to have a prophet, Thomas S. Monson, today that leads us back to our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ.  The Book of Mormon is the Word of God and we can feel the Spirit as we read it.  Take care I love and miss you all.  'Til next week have a wonderful week. 

Love always,
Elder Lance Kuhi Cabral

*CONGRATULATIONS Everyone to The FRUITS of my LABOR back in Rose Lane Ward and THANKS EVERYONE FOR ALL THE BIRTHDAY WISHES FROM BUCKEYE*

Dear Family and Friends,

How are you all doing? How was your Thanksgiving? Well, I had a great Thanksgiving and Birthday in the Arizona Phoenix Mission - Serving the Lord and helping other Come unto our Savior Jesus Christ.  The weather this week has been really nice again starting to get colder in the nights but the days are nice and warm.  We had a lot of Turkey last week.  We had 4 turkey dinners in 3 days, on Wednesday we had dinner with the Dobbs family that just started to come back to church.  Thursday we could only go out by appointment only so we had turkey dinner with the Mahers and then with the Vervado family right after so we were stuffed with turkey, ham, stuffing, mashed potatoes, and pies.  On Tuesday, I was on exchanges with the district leader in their area with his companion Elder Severe who has been out for 2 months.  They cover the Southwest area of our mission so there area is huge.  We went to visit some members that live in the middle of nowhere surrounded by dessert with a 2-3 neighbor houses then you would not find another house for a few miles.  We had a great lesson with Andrea who we got to know her a little bit and taught her part of lesson 1 the Restoration.  We focused on teaching her about how families can be together forever since she had a sister that pasted away a few years ago.  It was a wonderful spiritual lesson to help comfort her and help strengthen her Faith in Jesus Christ and through him and our Heavenly Father's plan we can see our loved ones again.  Back to my area, we had a great week of visiting members and having prayers with them to bless them and get referrals of people who they know can benefit from a prayer.  I had a wonderful birthday yesterday - we had meetings from 8:45-9:20 am then another meeting from 9:30-10:20 am then church from 10 am-3 pm.  There were great talks on the sacrament and how it is the most sacred meeting that we go to partake of the sacrament to remember Jesus Christ and renew our covenants that we made with God.  It has the same cleansing power as Baptism to clean us from our sins and start a new week and always strive to become a be6tter follower of Jesus Christ.  Then we had a birthday dinner with the Carmicaul family whose son Brakens birthday is the same day as mine.  Sister Gazway in the Buckeye 1st ward was nice enough to make me a chocolate cake for my birthday which was very delicious.  So I had lots of food and sweet treats with Thanksgiving and my Birthday.  Then this morning I got a call from Elder Vaoga my last companion - that 5 people The Ledezma kids: Florena, Florissa, Florencio and the Armstrong Kids - Ben and Britney that I taught and prepared got baptized on Saturday and confirmed on Sunday.  That truly made my so happy to know that they got baptized.  Even though I did not witness their baptism and confirmation, it brought me joy to see the fruits of my labors that I helped them receive the Gospel and Come unto Christ and enjoy the blessing that come from entering the gate to eternal life and having the constant companion of the Holy Ghost to help them stay on the right path.  Thank you everyone for the wonderful birthday gifts and cards.  I love and miss you all.  Take care and have a wonderful week. 

Love,

Elder Lance Kuhi Cabral

*HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL FROM BUCKEYE, ARIZONA*

Dear Family and Friends,

How are you all doing?  Well as for me I am doing great here in Buckeye - Sharing the Gospel and helping others Come unto Christ.  The weather was perfect this past week in the 70's during the day which felt wonderful.  Well, I had a good week in the mission field.  My companion Elder Romrell has been sick and has been having a hard time sleeping since last Monday, so we have been mostly inside the whole week.  It has been pretty tough for me to be inside because I love to get out and do missionary work, finding and teaching our Heavenly Father's children the Gospel and how it can bless their lives.  So I have been doing a lot of studying which I love doing to help me gain more knowledge about the Gospel; but after so many hours of studying during the day it gets tiring and I start going crazy because there is nothing much I can do besides watch some church movies and videos.  I have been using some of the time to go through our area book and getting to know the area map and where people live since I will probably be taking over the area when my companion leaves in 3 weeks.  Well, I did have a great time at our mission tour on Wednesday where Elder Koeliker, a General Authority of the 70's came and talked to us.  It was a spiritually packed meeting hearing from him and his wife, with Elder Picroll, President and Sister Taylor, and having a testimony meeting to end our mission tour.  It was so great to hear from Elder Koeliker that we as missionaries have been set apart and are just like the Quorum of the Twelve and 70's to be witnesses of Christ and have the Authority to bear witness of him and preach his Gospel. That really struck me hard that our Heavenly Father would trust us with that calling.  We also are having a Christmas campaign where members can direct their friends and family to check out mormon.org/christmas and also invite us over to share a Christmas message about the Birth of our Savior Jesus Christ.  I also went on mini exchange with my district leader Elder Barlow to a few lessons we had.  We taught Ginny Torez about the Word of Wisdom and taught the Noble family about the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  It was really great to get out and teach them.  Well that was my week.  Hope everyone has a Happy Thanksgiving with their families.  Thank you so much for all your wonderful letters and birthday wishes.  I will truly cherish this Thanksgiving with some great food and being with members of our Ward.  I would just like to say that I am Thankful for you all and everything you do or did in my life to shape the person I am today.  I thank my Heavenly Father for this opportunity to be a missionary and share this wonderful Gospel so Families can be Together for Eternities.  I love and miss you all. 

Love,
Elder Lance Cabral

*THE PRAYER APPROACH IS THE WAY TO GO IN BUCKEYE*

Hola Familia y Amigos,

Como Estas?  I am doing great here in the mission field doing the Lord's work and bringing others unto Christ.   It is starting to get pretty chilly here in Buckeye in the mornings it is in the high 40's then in the day it warms up to about 65.  Time to bring out the sweaters to wear anytime it is below 65.  Well I had a pretty good week.  We got to meet some of our investigators this week and start to teach them.  We had a lesson with the Hornburgers kids this week on the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  They are ready to be baptized but wont until their moms boyfriend agrees that they can get baptized.  We also had a great lesson this week with Allie Delgado on the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  Her husband is a member and they just got married a few weeks ago.  She asked a lot of good questions that we answered to help her understand our beliefs.  We invited her to be baptized and she said if she knows that it is true she will be baptized.  Hopefully, the next time we meet we can set a date with her to be baptized.  On Friday, we had a great zone meeting, a big focus of our meeting was on finding new investigators because nothing starts in missionary work until we find people to teach.  We discussed our prayer contacting where we go to members home, we offer to have a prayer with them to ask God for any blessing they need in their lives, then we ask them if they know anyone that we can have a prayer with and help them feel the spirit that comes from praying to our Heavenly Father.  We are also doing the Prayer approach when we go tracting to soften their hearts and help them recognize the Spirit of Prayer.  We also discussed that by next Spring we should be getting a lot more missionaries in our mission about 250, currently we have 170 missionaries.  So we have to prepare for them by doing the best we can to help them be succesful missionaries.  We have to tighten up on our obedience by following the mission rules, work hard, and set good examples when they come into the field.  On Sunday, we had a multi stake conference with all 95 stakes in Arizona.  It was a broadcast from Salt Lake where Elder Holland and Elder Erying spoke.  Elder Holland gave a powerful talk on missionary work with the new changes in missionary ages and how members have to be more involved in missionary work because times are changing and more and more people are not opening their doors because of what is going on in the world and how members have to open the doors for missionaries by inviting their friends and family to learn more about the Gospel.  We also had a cool experience last night where this Truck driver from Nebraska wanted to talk to some missionaries.  The Bishop from our ward called us and told us to go to a truck stop to talk to him.  He was going through some hard times so we talked to him and gave him some spiritual guidance and comfort.  The spirit is so amazing to help us know what to say to people to help them feel our Heavenly Father's love for them.  Well that was my week in the field.  I love and miss you all.  Take care and God bless until next week have a fantastic week. 

Love,
Elder Lance Kuhi Cabral

*BUCKEYE IS THE PLACE TO BE DURING THE HOLIDAYS*

Dear Family and Friends,

How are you all doing? Well, I am doing great here in my mission - Sharing the Gospel and helping our Heavenly Father's children receive the Gospel in their lives.  Last Wednesday, I got transferred to Buckeye and got a new Companion Elder Romrell.  I was sad to be leaving Glendale because we had some great work going on there; but I helped prepare people to Come unto Christ so I know I accomplished what I was sent there to do.  I was really shocked to be sent out to Buckeye because it is different being in the country.  Our area is pretty big because there are lots of farming fields like cotton, corn, and dairy farms.  It is totally different from the city where there is nothing but houses and buildings.  There are quite a bit of subdivisions, neighborhood's scattered throughout our area that we work in and Share the Gospel.  We cover two wards - Buckeye 1st ward and Sundance ward.  I have met great members yesterday at church.  Elder Romrell is a great companion that is energetic and funny that likes to have fun and do missionary work.  He finishes his mission in 5 weeks so I will be his last companion.  So I am learning from a skilled missionary and I will keep him working hard until the end of his mission.  We have a few investigators that came to church but no one committed with a Baptism date yet.  We are trying to find new investigators by visiting members, having a prayer with them, and then asking if they know anyone that would be interested in learning.  Finding through members are the most effective way to get solid investigators that the Lord is preparing to receive the Gospel.  We go tracting sometimes but it is not very effective because lots of people are not interested or they are not home especially in these areas because people work or go to school during the day.  I live with a very nice family the Maxwell that have 2 twin boys at home, one on a mission in Paris, and 3 on their own or in college.  On Saturday, we had a cultural fair at our Stake Center that was really fun.  There were stations around the cultural hall that represented different countries talked about their cultural and had some sample foods to try.  Guess what the Hawaiian booth had Spam and Rice as their food.  It was great and a lot of fun for those that attended with great presentations including the Hula.  We had our own missionary booth that talked about the Gospel and had pamphlets and Book of Mormons.  Well that was my week in the mission field.  Hope everyone is doing great.  I love and miss you all so much.  My prayers are always with you.  Until next week.  Take care and have a Great week!

Love,
Elder Lance Kuhi Cabral

*ALOHA TO ROSE LANE WARD BUT CONTINUE TO COME UNTO CHRIST*

Aloha Family and Friends,

How are you all doing?  How is the weather back home in the islands?  I am doing just great here in Glendale - Sharing the Gospel and helping others Come unto Christ.  The weather is really nice in the 80's during the day and starting to get really chilly in the nights and mornings are at the high 50's.  We had a great week teaching the Gospel and helping our Heavenly Father's children receive the Gospel in their lives.  We got some great new investigators this week.  We are starting to teach Jacob and Joseph Luzinia (Georgiana and Jessicas brothers that we baptized) and committed them to be baptized on November 24.  We like to do fun activities with them and teach them simply things to help them pay attention.  That family I talked about last week that shouted at us while we were riding down the road we met with the 2 sisters that lives in our area and taught them the Restoration of the Gospel.  We also met with Ranae and Candace a referral from Bishop and taught them the Restoration of the Gospel.  It was spiritual & wonderful lesson with them and we had a sister from our ward who is leaving on her mission to Brazil in November come out with us and help us teach and testify of the Gospel which she did great.  We also had some great lessons with the Ledesma kids - Florena, Florencio, and Florissa teaching them the commandments and reviewing the Restoration of the Gospel with them.  We also had a great lesson with the Armstrong kids - Ben and Brittney, they are ready to be baptized but the Grandma won't bring them to church and we even stop by on Sunday to pick them up but they were not ready.  This Sunday was a great Sabbath Day.  During sacrament our ward had their primary presentation which was wonderful to hear the primary kids give talks and sing hymns, they did an amazing job.  It was so great to see Georgiana come to church with her husband Gabriel and their kids.  He had a great time at church and they stayed all three hours.  We asked Georgiana about Gabriel taking the missionary lessons, and she said she is working on it and she will let us know when he is ready, so we will let her do some missionary work and she is doing a great job of getting him to just come to Church which is one of the biggest obstacles we have teaching people the Gospel is having them feel comfortable to come to Church.  Then on Sunday evening we went to a missionary musical Fireside, which had a strong spirit.  Music truly brings the spirit especially when they feel it through the fireside because of our Savior, Jesus Christ.  Well we got Transfer news this morning and I am GETTING TRANSFERRED tomorrow.  I was so sad to hear that I am leaving the Rose Lane area.  I had a great time here teaching the gospel to all those that we helped Come unto Christ through Baptism and Confirmation.  This was a great area where we taught some wonderful converts that I loved to serve.  I will truly miss all of our converts, investigators, members, and people that I got to know and love.  I am so happy that I am leaving this area better than when I came in because we got some great work in this area with some wonderful people set to be baptized in November and the coming months.  The Lord needs me someplace else where people need to hear the Gospel from me.  Well that was my wonderful week in the missionary field.  I know that the Gospel and Church is true.  God is our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ is our Savior and Redeemer that loves us so much.  The Gospel has been restored through Joseph Smith and we have a prophet today, Thomas s. Monson that continues to guide us back to live with God and our families for eternities.  I love and miss you all so much.  Have a wonderful Halloween and a fantastic Week.  Till next week in my new area with my new companion.  Take Care!

Love,
Elder Lance Kuhi Cabral.

*WORDS OF WISDOM FROM APOSTLE NEIL L. ANDERSON & CONGRATULATIONS GEOGIANNA ON YOUR BAPTISM*

Dear Family and Friends,

How are you all doing? I am doing just great here in Glendale - Sharing the Gospel and helping others Come unto Christ.  The weather is really nice, it is pretty warm during the day and it get s kind of cold in the nights.  I had a wonderful week in the mission field with wonderful spiritual experiences.  Georgianna got baptized on Saturday and I had the honor to baptizing her.  The spirit was so strong as she made her covenants with our Heavenly Father and enter the path towards Eternal Life.  She was so excited the whole week and was full of joy as she got baptized and became a Disciple of Jesus Christ.  Her newly husband and some of her family came to witness her baptism.  My companion and Elder Goldsberry in our district focused the missionary presentation on families and it definitely brought a great spirit that Family can be Together Forever through living the Gospel.  We hope the husband gets interested in learning about the Gospel and how it can strengthen their families and lead them to the Temple.  Georgianna said he might want to take the missionary lessons soon, so we keep praying and she is still working with him.  On Saturday, we had a mission conference where we got to meet and shake hands with Elder Neil L. Anderson - Quorum of the Twelve Apostle and General Authorities Elder Maynes & President of the Seventy & Bishop Causse.  It was a very powerful and spiritual meeting to hear them talk.  To be in the presence of an Apostle of the Lord - a special witness of Jesus Christ was such a privilege.  He gave a wonderful talk on the Doctrine of Christ and how we teach all those we come in contact with that the fulness of the Gospel has been restored in these days.  It was wonderful to be there with all the missionaries in the Arizona Phoenix Mission.  Saturday was a spiritually packed day with Mission Conference and a wonderful Baptism for Georgianna and another Baptism for Jessie and Georgianna (Elder Mason and Goldsberry), both companionship in our districts had a baptism this past weekend and we were so excited.  I had some wonderful experiences this week.  On Thursday, I was on splits with a ward missionary visiting an investigator in an apartment complex when a lady came up to us wanting to learn more about our Church.  So we talked to her for a while and got her contact information so we can go back and teach her more.  Then on Sunday we were riding our bikes to our Dinner appointment when a guy was yelling at us.  So we went back to talk to him and he said he was interested in learning about the Gospel so we talked to him and got his contact information.  He lives out of our area so we referred him to the missionaries in his area, but still a wonderful experience to see the Lord truly prepares people to receive the Gospel we just have to pray to be at the right place at the right time so we can teach them the Gospel.  The Ledesma kids are doing good, they were planned to be baptized on October 27 but they cannot untill they come to church twice.  We are going to change their date to November.  The Armstrong kids are also doing great, they are ready to be baptized but they need to come to church too.  The grandma said she will shock us this weekend and bring them to church so we hope it happens and we will do everything we can to help them Come to Church and feel the Spirit.  Well that was my awesome week in the mission field doing the Lords work and helping other enjoy the blessings that our Heavenly Father has for them as they are obedient in living the restored Gospel.  Hope everyone is doing fantastic.  I love and miss you all.  My prayers are with you always.  Until next week.  Take care.

Love,
Elder Lance Cabral

*CONGRATULATION's to GEORGIANNA & GABRIEL in Glendale, AZ*

Hola Familia y Amigos,

Como Esta Todo? Well as for me, I am doing great here in Glendale sharing the Gospel and helping our brothers and sisters Come unto Christ.  The weather here is starting to get cold especially in the morning and night’s(60's).  During the day it is nice and warm with a cool breeze which reminds me of home.  The work is going great in the Rose Lane Ward.  Georgianna got married on Saturday to Gabriel.  It was a very beautiful wedding to see them make their covenants with each other. They were so happy when Bishop Reese announced them as husband and wife.  It was a good turnout of family, friends, and some ward members that came to witness their special day.  It is amazing to see how after 8 years of being together and 4 kids they finally chose to get married.  After she got married she met the requirements to be baptized.  She had her baptism interview on Sunday and passed with flying colors.  She is so excited to be baptized this Saturday, October 20 and make her covenants with God.  The Lord truly prepared her to receive the restored Gospel.  I had some amazing spiritual experience teaching her the Gospel and helping her to come closer to our Heavenly Father.  The Armstrong kids are doing great, Ben and Britney want to get baptized but they need to come to Church twice before they can. Their grandma keeps telling us that she will come to Church but they never show up.  The grandma is less active and has not been to church in a long time.  So we do not really know what we can do get her to church. It is hard sometimes working with kids that really want to get baptized but their parents will not bring them to church.  We do not want to baptize them into inactivity, we will keep working with them.  The Ledesma kids are also doing great.  Florena  wants to get baptized because she knows it will bring her closer to God.  Florrisa is not really sure so we keep teaching her so she can have a desire to be baptized.  Then Florencio is getting more involved in the lessons, reading and answering questions.  It is great to see the spirit softening his heart to get him more interested in the Gospel and how it can bless his life.  When we first starting meeting with them he did not want to learn and would not pay attention. The Wookie family are doing great, but they do not come to church.  We call them in the morning but they do not answer.  We have been struggling to get investigators to come to church so we are going to get some good fellowship family that can come to the lessons with us and invite and offer them a ride to church.  Wednesday we had a wonderful meeting with President and Sister Taylor for our Quarterly Zone Interviews.  Great meetings help us focus on when to drop an investigator that is not progressing.  It is sometimes sad to stop visiting investigators that you love and want them to receive the Gospel but if we are not fulfilling our purpose as missionaries by helping them building their faith, repentance, getting baptized, receiving the Holy Ghost, and enduring until the end then we have to give them some time when they are ready.  We also went over the baptism calendar and how we can help our investigators for Baptism by having a calendar and the things they need to do so they can be ready come unto Christ.  We had a wonderful Sabbath Day yesterday, we had a recently returned missionary that returned from his mission in West Africa.  It was so spiritually uplifting to hear his missionary experience and how he helped our Heavenly Fathers children receive the Gospel.  Well that was my great week here in the mission field.  I love and miss you all so much.  Thank you to everyone that writes to me and keeps me going in doing the Lords work.  Till next week Adios. 


Te Amo,
Elder Lance Kuhi Cabral

*182nd GENERAL CONFERENCE FROM GLENDALE, AZ*

Dear Family and Friends,

How are you all doing?  How was your General Conference Weekend?  Well for me I am doing great here in Glendale, Arizona - Sharing our Heavenly Father's wonderful Gospel to his children so they can have his blessings and return to live with him.  The weather is really starting to get nice it was in the 90's most of the week, but this week should start getting more warm in the 80's.  The nights are really cool and great when I am riding around sharing the Gospel and going to our appointments.  Well the work is going pretty well.  It was a tough week for us because did not have too much lessons with our investigators only 3 and none of our investigators came to watch General Conference with us at the Stake Center or in a members home.  We reminded them about General Conference but something came up or they were busy.  We are really going to try to set up Baptism Calenders with our investigators that we set appointments to meet with them on certain days and time, church, and set a date with them to have as a goal to prepare them to be baptized on a certain day that we pray and feel they can be ready to make their covenants with God.  Baptism calenders are very effective.  If they understand how it will help them progress toward baptism and receive the Holy Ghost and if we as missionaries emphasize the importance of keeping track with them what we have taught them and what they need to know to be ready to be baptized.  We try to teach them all the missionary lessons before they are baptized, and anything else we feel they need to continue to learn before  they become completely converted to the Gospel and continue to progress after they are baptized.  General Conference was very spiritually uplifting and inspiring. It was so wonderful to hear from our prophet and church leaders and their counsel to us to keep us on the straight and narrow path towards Eternal Life.  It was so exciting to hear the announcement from President Monson that young men can start their missions at 18 and young women can go when their 19.  Hopefully we will have a lot more missionaries in the coming months and years to Serve the Lord and share the Gospel.  We surely got a lot of spiritual nourishment with all those wonderful spiritual messages that will make us stronger and better Disciples of Christ to withstand the adversity of the world.  The Armstrong Family is doing well.  We had a great lesson with them on the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  We thought it would be fun to do an activity where we had a rope that represents the Iron rod and had the principles of the gospel along the rope: Faith, Repentence, Baptism, Holy Ghost, and Endure to the End.  After they got to the end of the rope we explained all the principles along the way, they got to pick the fruit from the Tree of Life which we gave them candy as a prize.  Object lessons work really well with kids cause it is fun and they pay attention better.  We also did this with the Wookie Family kids and they also loved it.  I loved the talks during General Conference that they gave analogies to help us understand what they are teaching better it works really well for all us to understand the Gospel more effectively.  We are going to try to implement in our teaching so we are better Servants of Jesus Christ the greatest teacher, who would always teach in parables to help people understand it clearly.  Georgianna is also doing great.  She is getting married by Bishop on Saturday then she will be ready to be baptized on October 20.  Well that was my great week in the mission field with lots of great experiences that makes being on a mission the best time of my life. Well hope everyone has a great week.  You ALL are always in my prayers. Take Care!

Love Always,
Elder Lance Kuhi Cabral

*STRIVING FOR THE STANDARDS OF EXCELLENCE*

 Aloha Family and Friends,

How are you guys doing? Well, I am doing just great here in Glendale - Sharing the Gospel and helping our Heavenly Father's children come closer to him.  I had a wonderful week teaching our investigators the Gospel and helping them prepare to enter the gate back to our Heavenly Father through Baptism and receiving the Holy Ghost. This week my companion and I goals were to reach our missions Standards of Excellence which is 2 baptism within the month, and within the week from Monday thru Sunday 4 people with a baptism date, 5 investigators at sacrament, 10 member present lessons, and 5 new investigators.  We had 2 baptisms earlier this month with Barb and Jessica, 8 investigators with a baptism date in October, 3 investigators at church, 12 member present lessons, and 7 new investigators.  We tried our best but came a little bit short on investigators at sacrament.  We reminded them about church and even setup rides for some but something came up for lots of them such as not feeling well, sleeping in, or do not answer our calls.  So we are really going to focus on teaching the importance of the Sabbath Day with them and help them have a desire to come to church and feel the spirit.  Coming to church is so important in an investigators progress in the Gospel to help them keep the commandments, learn more about the Gospel, having fellowship from the Ward, and after their baptized renew their covenants that they make with our Heavenly Father so they can always have the Spirit to be with them.  Georgiana is doing really great, this week she talked to the Bishop about being married and they set a date to be married on October 13. We were so excited for her and her boyfriend found a job this week and telling his family he is getting married.  We set her baptism date for October 20 a week after she gets married so she can finally make her first covenants with God.  The Armstrong kids - Ben and Britney are also doing great, we are reviewing the lessons with them to prepare them for their baptism on October 13.  We taught Raymond the Gospel of Jesus Christ and committed him to be baptized on October 27 as a goal.  He does not feel ready to be baptized until he feels like he knows more, so we will keep working with him until he feels ready and he also needs to get married first so we need to go over the Law of Chasity with him. We met with a former investigators this week who was taught a year ago.  Great family from Africa and we are going through the lessons with them again to refresh them about the Gospel and we committed them to be baptized on October 27.  Thursday was a great and fun day, in the morning I went to a specialized musical training meeting which was a wonderful spiritual meeting.  We were taught how to lead the music as a chorister and how wonderful music can bring the spirit into our meetings and lessons.  We had a special guest, William Johnson taught us about using appropriate music for our meetings.  He is a professional piano player and played some beautiful hymns that was so spiritually uplifting to listen to.  Then in the evening we took some of our recent converts and investigators to the Mesa Temple - Barb, Jessica, and Georgiana came and had a great time.  We took them around the Mesa Temple and went through the visitors center and watched some great videos about how Families can be Together Forever through living the Gospel and the ordinances performed in the House of the the Lord.  It was so great to hear Jessica, a 15 year old say that she wants to find someone in the church so she can go inside the Temple someday and be married for time and all eternity.  It was so wonderful to go to the Mesa Temple and feel the strong Spirit there.  Well that was my wonderful week in the mission field hope everyone is doing awesome. The weather is still pretty hot during the days - 100's but the nights are starting to get chilly low 70s.  I know that the Gospel and church is true and that it has been restored through Joseph Smith and we have a living prophet today, Thomas S. Monson who continues to lead us on the straight and narrow path towards eternal life.  I know that the Book of Mormon is the Word of God and it testifies that our Savior, Jesus Christ atoned for all of us so we can return to live with our Heavenly Father and our families for Eternity. Your all in my prays. Have a fantastic week. Take care.

Love,
Elder Lance Kuhi Cabral

*THE BOOK OF MORMON IS SHARED TO THOSE IN PHOENIX, AZ*

Aloha Ohana and Friends,

How are you all doing?  Well for me, I am doing just great here in Glendale - Sharing the Gospel and helping others receive the happiness that comes from living the Gospel in their lives.  This week was pretty good, it was pretty hot - from the week before but it should start cooling down.  We had some great lessons this week with our investigators that we are teaching.  Last Sunday, we were riding home for the night when we met a former investigator that we thought moved out of our area so we talked to her for a little bit and found out she moved a few blocks away.  She told us where she lived so on Tuesday, we went back to teach her and her 2 siblings.  She was not there but we met with her siblings Ben (11yr) and Britney (15yr) and started teaching them.  They were taught most of the lessons before so we are just reviewing it with them and committed them to be baptized on October 13.  We also met with the Ledesma kids (Florrena, Florisa, and Florencio) this week and read 1 Nephi 8 with them about the Tree of Life and committed them to read the Book of Mormon and pray to know if it is true and if they should get baptized.  We also met with Georgiana this week and continue preparing her for her baptism. She needs to meet with Bishop to discuss getting married soon.  We also met with Joanne and read Alma 7 with her and taught her that everything lays upon the Book of Mormon and it is the keystone of our religion.  The Book of Mormon is evidence that the Gospel was restored through Joseph Smith and we continue to have the fullness of the Gospel today through a living prophet Thomas S. Monson. We ended the lesson by reading Moroni 10:3-5 with her bearing our testimony about the Book of Mormon and committed her to read and pray about it and she will receive an answer that it is true by the power of the Holy Ghost. We know that if she sincerely wants to know the truth that the Holy Ghost will confirm her that it is true and by living the principles and ordinances of the Gospel she can return to live with God again. This past week we had a great transfer meeting with 24 new and excited missionaries that joined the Arizona Phoenix Mission.  It is so wonderful to hear the new missionaries bear their testimony of how grateful they are to start their mission and serve the Lord. My companion Elder Vaoga and I did not get transferred but we had to go to a meeting so we got to see the missionaries who got transfered to new areas with a new companion. We had a great Sabbath day with wonderful talks on doing Family History work and doing the ordinances for our ancestors so they can enjoy the blessing of the Gospel.  Then we had a very spiritual missionary fireside that evening with great talks on the restoration of the Gospel, Plan of Salvation, and the Divinity of Jesus Christ with wonderful musical numbers that made the spirit so strong. Well that was my great week here in the mission field teaching the Gospel and helping others Come unto Christ so they can be on the straight and narrow path towards eternal life.  I know that our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ lives and loves us all so much that they want us to return to their presence.  The Book of Mormon is the word of God that testifies of our Savior, Jesus Christ and his ministry to the people in the americas. Jesus Christ is our Savior and redeemer that atoned for our sins so we can be with our families for eternity.  My prayers are with you all.  Till next week.  Take care and have a great week.

Love,
Elder Lance Kuhi Cabral

*LIFE & WEATHER IS GREAT IN GLENDALE, AZ*

Hello Family and Friends,

How are you all doing?  I am doing great here in Glendale - Sharing the Gospel and doing the Lord's work in helping our Heavenly Father's children come unto him.  The weather this past week was really nice. It is starting to cool down and some days it is perfect in the 80's.  We had a very spiritual baptism on Saturday for Jessica Luzania.  It was so great to see her make her covenants with God and how happy she felt by being spiritually reborn as a disciple of Jesus Christ.  There was a great support from the Young Women that gave talks and sang a beautiful musical number that brought the Spirit so strongly before Jessica entered the waters of baptism.  Her sister Georgiana and her boyfriend Gabriel came to witness the baptism.  We hope Gabriel felt the spirit and sparks some interest in him to learn about the Gospel and how it can bless his families life for eternity.  Georgiana cannot get baptized because she is living with her boyfriend and 3 kids.  We had a great lesson with Georgiana on Monday while her sister was getting interviewed for Baptism and the Spirit was so great in that lesson.  We had a member that sat in that lesson with us on how she can bring up to her boyfriend her desire to get married so she can get baptized.  It really builds my faith on the importance of members in our lessons because they bear powerful testimony and they can relate to things we do not have experienced yet such as marriage and kids.  We always strive to get members at lessons because they help us teach and testify about the Gospel and it is our key indicator that we report each week during our weekly call ins.  We also had some great lessons with Raymond on the Plan of Salvation and helping him learn about our purpose on earth is to prepare to return to live with God and our families for Eternity in the Celestrial Kingdom.  We also met with Vanessa this week and read the Book of Mormon with her and help build her Faith but we keep setting appointments with her and she keeps cancelling so we are going to give her a break for a while because she not keeping the  commitments towards Baptism and it might not be the right time for her yet.  We keep praying that things will work out with her and she gets the burning desire to continue to learn more about the Gospel and make her first step towards eternal life by being Baptized.  We had a great lesson with Barb our recent convert and handed her over to the Ward Missionary to teach her the new member lessons.  She was so sad that we are not coming over to teach her anymore, but she understood our purpose as missionaries is to invite others to Come unto Christ and receive the Gospel through being Baptized.  It was so great to teach her and see the spirit working in her and building her faith in christ and how it already brought many happiness and joy to her and her families life.  We hope she continues to live the Gospel and prepare for additional covenants that we make in the House of the Lord, the Temple.  I almost forgot that the day after we had a lesson with Georgiana on telling her boyfriend she wants to get married, he agreed and so we are planning for them to be married on September 29.  So then she can be baptized in October.  We were so happy to hear that great news and we are working with the Ward to have the Bishop marry them and have a reception at the Church.  God certainly makes things work out as long as we trust in him and keep his commandments.  Well that was my week in the mission field.  Hope everyone is doing well.  I love and miss everyone so much.  Take care.  My prayers are with you all.  I just got transfer news this morning and I am staying in Glendale for another 6 weeks.

Love,
Elder Lance Kuhi Cabral