Hello Family and Friends,
How
are you all doing? How was your New Year's? I am doing just great here
in Buckeye - Serving the Lord and helping others Come unto Christ. I
had a great New Years. We just mostly stayed at our home with the
Maxwell's because we could not go out New Year's Day, by appointment
only which we had a few in the evening. We had a pretty good week
teaching our investigators. We had a great lesson with Allie on Baptism
and Prayer. We recommitted her to be baptized on January 19. It was
so great to hear that she told her mother that she is meeting with us
and her mom is impressed about everything she is learning about the
Gospel. She even invited her to meet with us to learn more but she does
not want to. Her faith is growing so much and it was so wonderful to
hear that she had the courage to tell her mom because that was a big
concern. When we committed her to be baptized on January 19, she felt
that she is not ready so we taught her about Baptism and how it is only
the gate to Eternal Life that we have to make that leap of Faith. When
we have a desire to Come unto Christ, we have to act upon and show our
Heavenly Father that we want to return to live with him through keeping
his commandments and being baptized and in return we will receive
greater blessings like the Gift of the Holy Ghost as our constant
companion to help us stay on the right path towards our Heavenly
Father. We also taught her about prayer and how our Heavenly Father can
answer our prayers. We committed her to pray to our Heavenly Father if
she should be baptized on January 19 and our Heavenly Father will
answer her through the Spirit. We also had a great lesson with Maria on
the Plan of Salvation and recommitted her to be baptized on January 19
as well. We went over the baptism questions with her and it went
great. She just has to give up drinking coffee and she will be ready to
enter the waters of Baptism. We promised her blessings as she keeps
the Word of Wisdom. We also met with Mike and had a great lesson on the
Plan of Salvation. We also had a great lesson with the Baker Family on
the Restoration of the Gospel. It was a wonderful lesson for the first
time. We met with them because they had many questions and we kept
jumping around teaching them different principles. We kept it focus on
the lesson and it really helped him understand the role of our Prophet
and why it is important today that we have a prophet today that
continues to lead and guide us back to our Heavenly Father. We had a
spiritually packed zone meeting on Friday that was focused on finding
and different ways we can find those that the Lord is preparing to
receive his Gospel. It was so great to have a discussion with other
missionaries in our zone and learn of things that are successful. We
all agreed that helping members invite their friends and families is
effective in helping others because they have support that will help
them and people are more likely to learn about the Gospel and be
Baptized and stay active in the Gospel. Well, we had a cool tracting
experience this week. We were tracting on a street when we got to this
house and knocked this Spanish Lady, whom is a member that goes to the
Spanish Branch - open the door and was so happy to see us. She let us in
and told us that she was feeling a little down and she prayed to our
Heavenly Father to comfort her and then we showed up on her doorstep.
She could not speak much English so she had her son translate for her.
The spirit was so strong as we visited with her even though I could only
understand a little of what she was saying in Spanish. I could feel
the spirit and felt so grateful that we followed the promptings of the
Spirit to tract that street and to answer her prayer. Well that was my
wonderful week in the mission field - Sharing the Gospel and helping
others feel our Heavenly Father's love for them.
Love,
Elder Cabral
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