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
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