*CONGRATULATIONS SCOTT & HAPPY EASTER TO ALL*

*ANGEL CAST MEMBERS*

Dear Family and Friends,

How are you all doing?  I am having a great time here in Arizona doing the Lord's work.  The weather this past week cooled down a bit and it was really nice and warm.  Well, I had a spiritually packed week with many great things in my area.  We had a Baptism for Scott on Saturday which was so wonderful to witness him be baptized by his friend in our Ward and the spirit was so strong.  I had a great Sabbath day with Scott receiving the Holy Ghost which Elder Wilson had to do for his 1st time and then Scott got the Aaronic Priesthood.  Great talks on the Atonement and Resurrection of Christ in both wards because next week will be Fast Sunday.  We went to the Mesa Easter Pageant with some investigator's - Marshall and Tammy, recent convert Destiny and some members.  The Easter Pageant was amazing!  They put on a well performed play with great cast members, lighting, real animals, great and loud sound system that made it a spiritually powerful for all those who attended.  There was lots of people there to watch it and it was so great especially the Atonement of Jesus Christ.  I had a great time!  We also had a great lesson with Megan watching finding Faith in Christ and help strengthen her Faith.  We also had a great lesson with Malina on the Book of Mormon on how it is a second witness of Christ and evidence of the Restoration of the Church.  Well that was my great week.  Hope everyone is doing well.  I love and miss you all.  You are always in my prayers.  Have a great week and Happy Easter! 

Love Elder Lance Kuhi Cabral

*MISSIONARY LIFE IN ARIZONA IS STARTING TO HEAT UP IN MANY DIFFERENT WAYS BUT IT MAKES ME HAPPY*

Dear Family and Friends,

How are you all doing?  I am doing great here in Arizona - Serving the Lord and helping others Come unto Christ.  It is starting to heat up here in Arizona a few days it got up to 95 degrees and it felt pretty hot.  I had a pretty good week.  It was kind of slow with Spring Break but we still had a few lessons with our investigators and not to many came to church.  We had a great lesson with Scott this week on the commandments and preparing him for his Baptism interview which he had yesterday and he passed!  He is so excited to be Baptized this Saturday by his friend who was his neighbor a few years ago.  It was so great teaching him and hearing how his friends were a big influence to him investigating the church and following the example of Jesus Christ and being Baptized.  We also had a great lesson with a new investigator - Tammy on the Restoration and invited her to be Baptized and she said yes.  She is Destiny's friend who just got baptized from high school.  It was so great a few days before our lesson with Destiny who text us that she told her friend about the Gospel and that she just got Baptized and she would like to take the lessons too.  The spirit was so strong as we taught her about the Atonement during Christ's early ministry and invited her to be Baptized.  She said she was stressed out this week but when we were teaching her she felt the peace.  We testified that the feeling is the spirit telling how the Gospel is true and our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ loves her.  We took a young man - Cutter with us and he testified of how the Gospel has blessed him and Destiny testified of how the Gospel has blessed her since she got Baptized and received the Holy Ghost.  It was so great to see how the Gospel truly changes peoples lives and brings them closer to Christ.  I am so honored to be a servant of Jesus Christ to preach his Gospel and help others feel our Heavenly Father's spirit as people take Moroni's promise in Moroni 10:3-5 of praying to our Heavenly Father and he will answer our prayers through the Holy Ghost.  That was my week here in the mission field.  I testify as a servant of Jesus Christ that the Gospel is true that by living his Gospel we can be blessed and return to live with our Heavenly Father.  Take care and have a great week.  

 

Love, 

Elder Lance Kuhi Cabral

 

*CONGRATULATIONS TO DESTINY ON YOUR BAPTISM. PLEASE FEEL FREE TO EMAIL ME WHEN TIME PERMITS*

Dear Family and Friends,

How are you all doing? I am doing great here in Buckeye - Sharing the Gospel and doing the Lord's work of preaching his Gospel to our Heavenly Father's children. I had a pretty good week - teaching our investigators and preparing them for Baptism and Confirmation. The weather has been really nice this week in the 70's. On Friday it was raining pretty hard and had some hail that was falling, luckily we have a car to travel around in. We had a spiritually packed Baptism for Destiny on Saturday. It was so great to see her returned active husband baptize her through the Priesthood that he holds. She was so excited to Come unto Christ and have her sins washed away and have the Holy Ghost to help her in her life. Then on Sunday, she was confirmed the Holy Ghost and became a member of the Church. It is so great to teach investigators from the beginning and see them change as we help them to strengthen their Faith, Repent, and be Baptized and Recieve the Holy Ghost to guide them and comfort them through their life. We are going to help her do some family history work and get her to go to the Temple soon to do the work for her Ancestors. We hope Destiny and her husband Jason continue to work towards being sealed in the Temple in a year so they can be an Eternal family. William was finally confirmed the Holy Ghost this Sunday after being baptized on February 17. He is a great kid and I hope his family continue to stay active so he can prepare himself to serve a mission when he is older. We had a good turnout of investigators at church with 5, but there is still some investigators that commit to come Church but do not come. We had a great lesson with Scott on the commandments and preparing him for his Baptism on March 23. He is a great guy and a golden investigator that is excited to Come unto Christ. We also had a great lesson with Lupe on the Plan of Salvation. A big focus with us is finding new investigators through members and a focus in our zone meeting on Friday is asking everyone for referrals to see who they know would be interested in the Gospel. That was my great week here in the mission field Sharing the Gospel. I love and miss you all. Take care and have a great week. I know the Gospel is true and has been restored in these latter days so we can have Eternal Life. The triump has sounded the gathering of Israel and has begun and we need to proclaim the Gospel to our Heavenly Father's children so they can have the joy of the Gospel. You are all in my prayers. Please email me if you can and I will try to respond back they changed the rules and said that we can email ALL family and friends.

Love,
Elder Lance Kuhi Cabral

*MISSIONARIES IN BUCKEYE CONTINUE TO SHARE THE GOSPEL TO ALL THOSE THEY COME IN CONTACT*

Dear Family and Friends,

How are you guys doing?  I am doing great here in Buckeye - Serving the Lord and helping others Come unto Christ.  I had a pretty good week sharing the gospel this week to our investigators.  The weather is still really nice starting to get a little hot.  We had a great lesson this week with Destiny about the Gospel of Jesus Christ and going over her Baptism interview questions.  She is so excited to be Baptize this Saturday and her returning active husband is going to Baptized her!  We also had a great lesson with Scott on the Gospel of Jesus Christ and he is set to be Baptize on March 23.  He came to our lesson with a Quad Scriptures that he brought and we were surprised to see it.  I am still covering Estrella Hills and Palo Verde wards.  We had a big transfer meeting with 26 new missionaries and 3 Spanish missionaries that came in a few weeks earlier.  They split 12 areas to missionaries covering only one ward.  It was great to see the new missionaries and hear their testimonies about how excited they are to be in the Arizona Phoenix Mission (APM) to serve our Heavenly Father and bring the Gospel to his children here in Arizona.  I had to go to transfer to switch my truck and we got a brand new 2013 Toyota Corolla that handles very well and had 9 miles on it.  We also had a great lesson with a former investigator Lupe on the Restoration and she has a great desire to come unto Christ.  We had dinner with a recent convert Maria White and her Friend Malina that seems very interested in learning about the Gospel.  She saw how the gospel changed Maria's life and wants to know more about Jesus Christ and his Gospel.  We are working with the members and starting to do family mission plans where we help them Share the Gospel with their family and friends.  We are starting by having them pray for someone they can share the Gospel with and we will follow-up in a week to set the next goal of what they can do to invite them to meet the missionaries, by giving them a Book of Mormon, invite them to church, or go to the Easter Pageant at the Mesa Temple.  We need the members to do more missionary work because it is more effective and people are more interested and remain active with fellowship.  We had a great fast and testimony meeting on Sunday with people bearing their testimonies on our Heavenly Father's plan and through our Savior and Redeemer we can return to live with him as we live his Gospel.  It was so powerful to hear Maria White - a recent convert go up and bear her testimony on how she is so grateful to have the Gospel and thankful for the missionaries that taught her and never gave up through the 3 years she was investigating.  It brought me great joy and peace to hear that I am truly changing people’s lives.  I am so thankful for this opportunity I have to serve the Lord and all those people that I have shared the Gospel with and helped them come closer to our Savior and how he can give us spiritual strength to endure our trials and learn and grow so we can be prepared to return to God's kingdom.  I know that the Gospel and Church are true and that our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ love us and want us to be happy.  The gospel has been restored through Joseph Smith and we have the fullness of the earth today.  The Book of Mormon is the Word of God and by reading it we can feel the spirit and help us learn more about Jesus Christ.  I love being a representative of Jesus Christ and preach his Gospel to all those people that are in darkness searching for the truth.  I love and miss you all.  Have a great week.

Love,       

Elder Lance Kuhi Cabral