*BY SMALL & SIMPLE THINGS GREAT THINGS COME TO PASS IN ANTHEM*

Dear Family and Friends,

How are you guys all doing?  I am doing great here in Anthem - doing the Lord's work and helping others to feel the spirit and have a desire to Come unto Christ.  It is starting to get hot here in Arizona.   It is in the mid 90's and the dry blower effect is starting.  I make sure I fill up my camelback everytime we go out so I stay hydrated.  This week was another slow week teaching with lots of our investigators being busy.  We have a pretty good teaching pool but they are not really progressing like coming to church or meeting with us.  We are going to try to keep in contact with them and if they do not prioritize to meet with us we will give them a break for a period of time.  I know that the Lord is preparing people that are ready to receive his Gospel and he will guide us to them when the time is right.  We had a great lesson with TeTe on the restoration and answering her questions that she had about our beliefs.  She had some really good questions like why do we say that we are the true church and why the Gospel was lost through the Apostasy.  It was a great spiritual lesson to testify to her about Christ's church that he established and how it was restored through Joseph Smith and how we can know if it is true by reading and praying about the Book of Mormon and how the Holy Ghost will testify to her the truth.  Besides that we did a lot of finding people through members having prayers with them and asking who they know that would be interested in the Gospel.  We received a few referrals that we contacted but no one that is interested yet.  If members do not have any one that they can share the Gospel with we commit them to pray and the Lord will guide them to someone they know who they can help Come unto Christ.  By small and simple things great things come to pass.  A simple invite to learn about the Gospel or inviting someone over for dinner goes a long way in preparing people to eventually receive the Gospel.  On Saturday, we helped a less active family move to their new home pretty much the whole day.  It was great to do service for them and hope they come back to church.  That was my great week here in the mission field Sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ so they can know how the Gospel can bless their lives and return to live with God and our Families Forever.  I love and miss you all.  Take care and have a great week. 

Love, 

Elder Lance Kuhi Cabral

*WHAT A BEAUTIFUL DAY FOR A HIKE UP DAISY MOUNTAIN?*

Dear Family and Friends,

How are you guys doing?  I am doing great here in Arizona - Sharing the Gospel and helping others Come unto Christ.  The weather here in Anthem has still been really nice and warm, but it is starting to heat up.  I had a pretty good week with Zone interviews and 2 spiritually, wonderful lessons with our investigators.  Zone interviews were great as we meet with President Taylor and have our quarterly interview with him and hear his counsel on how we can be more powerful Servants of Christ?  We had a great training by our zone leaders on the importance of helping our investigators understand why we commit them to do things to help strengthen their Faith and show our Heavenly Father that they love him.  Then we had training from Sister Taylor on planning effectively to make the best use of our time even on Pdays so we can get everything done so we can be ready for the next week of doing the Lord's work.  She also talked about the different ways we can find the ELECT children in our areas that are prepared to receive the Gospel.  The great thing that we always love about zone interviews is Sister Taylor's games which is on "cleaning" that has been a big focus these past months is keeping our residence clean so the spirit can be with us always.  We had a great lesson this week with Alex and James on the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  The spirit was so strong to see her feel the spirit as we talked about receiving the Holy Ghost as our constant companion after we are baptized.  The spirit is one of the greatest gifts we can receive in this life that can help us and comfort us through this journey of returning to live with God and our Families Forever.  She has a Baptism date for May 25.  But she has not been coming to church and she is living with her boyfriend.  We also had a wonderful lesson with Rome on the Atonement and how Jesus Christ knows all of our trials that we go through and how living his Gospel can  bless us and heal us from those pains.  There were some contention between him and his wife.  It was great to see how the spirit can change their moods.  We invited and committed them to pray as a family everyday for our Heavenly Fathers guidance to help strengthen them as a family because we cannot give counsel on personal matters.  We invited Rome to say the closing prayer and he said a spiritually, powerful prayer.  It is so wonderful to see how the spirit can truly change hearts as we feel it.  We had a lot of lessons that fell through so we were doing a lot of finding people to teach.  We found a few potential investigators that we are going back to visit this week.  That was my great week here in the mission field.  I know that this Gospel is true and that Christ's church has been restored through Joseph Smith.  By reading the Word of God and praying to our Heavenly Father he will answer us.  I am so grateful for this opportunity that I have to represent Jesus Christ and do his marvelous work.  The field is white ready to harvest, there is our family, friends, and people we know that are ready to receive the Gospel.  We have to share it with them so they can have the joy and happiness that comes from the Gospel.  I love and  miss you guys all.  Take care and have a great week.  

Love,

Elder Lance Kuhi Cabral

*WELCOME ELDER BRYANT, ANTHEM CITY HERE WE ARE, & IT IS BIKE TIME AGAIN*

Dear Family and Friends,

How are you guys doing?  I am doing great here in Arizona - Sharing the Gospel and doing the Lord's work.  Well, I got transferred to Anthem on Wednesday and my new companion is Elder Bryant from Apple Valley, California.  He has been out for 3 months and is excited to be on his mission.  He is 18 - so President Monson's announcement effected him.  We cover the Gavilin Peak Ward - here in Anthem.  I live in a nice Apartment complex right off the I-17 Highway called Bella Rosa Apartments.  Anthem is a nice area that is 30 minutes - North of Phoenix that was built in 2001 so it is a pretty new community.  It is a pretty big city of its own with lots of residential and commercial buildings.  My area is pretty small so I am back to being on bike which I love street contacting people and getting exercise.  I do miss the quickness of a car and will miss the AC in a month.  The weather up here is still really nice in the 80's.  I had a great week starting with transfers, seeing 20 new missionaries coming into our mission and hear their testimonies of their excitement to be on their missions.  We had a wonderful Baptism on Saturday for Lynn with her strong spirit as she was baptized by her friend that introduced her to the church.  Great support from the ward and a few investigators from other missionaries.  I had a great Sabbath day meeting with the members and investigators.  Elder Bryant got to do his 1st confirmation which was also a strong spirit to see her as she became a member of the church and receive the Holy Ghost.  We had a great ward activity at a really nice park getting to know ward members and doing some fun activities such as water balloons and 3 legged race.  That was my great week sharing the Gospel.  I love and miss you all.  You are all in my prayers.  I know that this Gospel is true and it has been restored to bless our lives so we can return to live with our Heavenly Father. 

Love,
Elder Lance Kuhi Cabral

*IT IS TRANSFER TIME AGAIN, ALOHA TO BUCKEYE - MAHALO TO THE 65,000 MISSIONARIES THAT ARE SERVING DELIGENTLY TO SHARE THE GOSPEL*

Dear Family and Friends,

How are you doing?  How did you like the General Conference?  I am doing great here in Buckeye - Sharing the Gospel and doing the Lord's work.  I had a great week teaching the gospel, going to the Mesa Temple, and watching General Conference.  We had a great lesson with Malina on the Restoration helping her to understand how God reveals his Gospel through his Prophets and how it was restored.  We also had a great lesson with Lupe on the Plan of Salvation - helping her to understand how Baptism is so important in showing God that we love him and want to return to live with him in the Celestial Kingdom.  She does not want to commit to a date to be baptized, but we hope that she continues to meet with us, read, pray about the Book of Mormon, and feels the desire to follow Jesus Christ.  On Thursday, we went to the Mesa Temple with Destiny to witness her do baptism for her ancestors.  The spirit was so strong in the House of the Lord to see her do the work for her family after only 3 weeks of being Baptized.  General Conference was spiritually uplifting to hear the wonderful talks by our Prophet, Apostles and all those leaders who spoke.  A big focus was on missionary and I hope it gets the members fired up to do missionary work because we need the help of members especially with God hastening his work and 65,000 missionaries preaching his Gospel.  Well we got transfer news this morning and I AM GETTING TRANSFERRED.  I am so grateful for the time I had to serve here in Buckeye.  I went through some of the hardest trials here in Buckeye but I learned so much that strengthened my testimony about the restored Gospel. I also had some of the Greatest spiritual experiences that brought me great Joy to help all those that I taught and helped Come unto Christ through baptism and being confirmed. I will miss all the wonderful investigators, recent converts, and members that I got to know, love, and serve here in Buckeye.  Till next week in my new area and new companion.  Take care and have a wonderful week.  I love and miss you all.  You are ALL always in my prayers.  I know this church is true and so privileged to be one of 65,000 stripling warriors - Sharing his Gospel and helping others enjoy the blessing.  

Love,
Elder Lance Kuhi Cabral

LET'S ALL READ ALMA 32 FROM THE BOOK OF MORMON & THE FAMILY HISTORY CENTER IS THE PLACE TO GO*

Dear Family and Friends,

How are you guys? How was your Easter Sunday?  Well, I am doing great here in Buckeye, Arizona - Sharing the Gospel and doing the Lord's work.  The weather here has still been pretty good but starting to heat up in the 90's, gotta start loading my camelback with lots of water.  I had a good week in the field, we only had 1 lesson this week with Megan which was wonderful to read Alma 32 with her and help her gain a testimony of the Book of Mormon and the restored Gospel.  We had a few lessons that people cancelled and our teaching pool has been a bit low after baptizing all our great converts this past months.  But I know that the Lord will bless us with people to teach as we work hard and be obedient.  We do not have any with a date yet, but we have a few investigators that we can set a date with to help them come unto Christ.  We are doing a lot of finding through members seeking referrals on people that they know who would be interested in learning about the Gospel.  A lot of the members do not even know their neighbors so we are encouraging them to meet them and pray for a missionary opportunity.  We had a great Easter Sunday with at both sacraments packed with people and a great dinner with a member family.  We also had great lessons with our recent converts Destiny and Scott by taking them to the Family History Center to research names of their ancestors they can take to the Temple and do their work.  We are planning to take Destiny this Thursday to the Temple and witness her being baptized in their behalf.  Well that was my great week here in the mission fielding doing the Lord's work.  I know that our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ loves us and lives and that the restored Gospel is back on earth with a prophet, Thomas S. Monson and Apostles that leads his church today.  Families can be together Forever through living the gospel of Jesus Christ.  The Book of Mormon is Word of God that can help us have Eternal Life.  Take care and have a great week.  You are all in my prayers!

Love, Elder Lance Kuhi Cabral