*ONLINE PROSELYTING IN ARIZONA PHOENIX MISSION HERE WE COME TO "HASTEN THE WORK"*

Aloha Ohana and Friends,

How are you guys doing?  I am doing great here in Arizona - doing the Lord's work.  It has been pretty hot most of this week, but the weekend was cloudy so it was a bit cooler.  This week was a bit slow teaching our investigators but we did have a great lesson with Lea.  We taught Lea about the Gospel of Jesus Christ and invited her to be baptized on September 28 and she excitingly said YES.  The spirit was so strong as we taught her about baptism and receiving the great gift of the Holy Ghost.  She was like "Can I really be baptized that soon" and we told her as she continues to meet with us and keep the commitments we give her that she will be ready to make her covenants with God.  We are going to plan to do a church tour with her and see how she does with the sensitivity to noise and sound because of her health condition that she is recovering from.  Besides that great lesson we mostly visited members and shared messages with them to see who they know that can benefit from the Gospel.  I had a great exchange with one of the new missionaries in my District Elder Burton in my area.  I had a great District meeting this week on the role of the Holy Ghost in someones conversion.  We had some great learnings on how the Spirit is so important to testify as the 3rd member of the Godhead that our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ lives.  We have to help our investigators recognize when they feel the spirit and how God will answer their prayers through the Holy Ghost.   We had a great Sabbath Day with 3 investigators coming to church.  A part member family that we have been working with for a while came to church for the 2nd time since I have been in Anthem.  Also Jackie and her 2 kids - Jenna and Joey came to church as well and enjoyed it.  Well that was my great week here in the mission field sharing the wonderful Gospel of Jesus Christ.  Our zone finally has Zone Conference tomorrow, which we have been looking forward to all month to be able to do ONLINE PROSELYTING.  It will be a great tool that will help us in our missionary work to Share the Gospel using Technology to "Hasten the Work".  I love and miss you guys all.  I Testify that this Gospel is true and it can bless our lives as we strenghten our Faith in Jesus Christ.  Take care and have a great week. 

Love,

Elder Lance Kuhi Cabral

*TOFA TAGATA'MATUA VAOGA & WELCOME ELDER COOK TO ANTHEM*

Dear Family and Friends,

How are you guys all doing?  I am doing great here in Anthem doing the Lord's work.  The weather has been pretty hot this week with a few days getting up to 110 degrees.  This week was an exciting week starting off with transfers.  My new companion is Elder Cook from Mcraft Alberta Canada.  He is a great Elder that is happy and excited to be on his mission.  Every time we visit members and investigators he always tells them how excited he is to be on his mission; which is great because he is positive and willing to do anything the Lord ask of him.  On transfer day it is great to see all the new assignments and changes in our mission.  We had 25 new missionaries join our mission and 10 great missionaries went home so now we are up to 223 missionaries in our mission.  It was so great to see my former companion Elder Vaoga at transfer before he goes home to Samoa which was a few hours after transfers.  President Taylor invited him to bear his testimony and it was so great to hear a powerful departing testimony at transfers because usually all the departing missionaries leave on Tuesday.  He was so sad to be leaving and it brought realization that I have to give it all I got before my time as a missionary ends.  We had a great youth activity for the young men and young women on Wednesday which we helped out on.  We had Ali, Ema, and another non-member friend that came and they had a great time.  We were trying to help the youth do some spiritual games such as putting the Articles of Faith in order and name that the hymn so they could win talents instead of playing the worldly games such as basketball or mini golf which they just receive treats.  Afterwards they were divided into 3 different kingdoms of glories based on how much talents they had.  We also had some great lessons with our investigators this week.  We met with Lea - 3 times this week and taught her about the Plan of Salvation.  She understood it really well and is so grateful to know God's plan for us.  She is prepared to receive the Gospel but has some health issues that would make it hard for her to come to church because she is still recovering from her car accident and she is very sensitive to noise and light.  We are going to talk to President Taylor and see what we can do to help her progress in the Gospel and Come unto Christ.  We also had a great lesson with Joni this week on the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  She is doing great but she also has some difficulties coming to church but she could make it with some assistance from ward members; so we will discuss it in ward council meeting and some members are going to help out.  We had a short lesson with a part member family Beau the husband has been less active and Leslie wants to come to church.  They committed to come to church this week so hopefully they come.  We finally got a great older couple the Seagettis to make calls and set up dinners for us, which has been going really well ever since Elder Cooks been here we had a dinner everyday.  It is great to eat with members and help strengthen their Faith to do missionary work plus we eat delicious food.  We had a great Sabbath Day by hearing a talk from a return missionary that served his misson in Georgia - Spanish speaking.  My district just got even younger with 3 new missionaries With Elder Cook, Burton, and Searle who just started their missions.  I had a great District Meeting teaching about how to begin teaching investigators for the first time by getting to know their religious background and establishing expectations to teach to their needs.  That was my great week here in the APM doing the Lord's work.  I testify this Gospel is true and by living the Gospel we can return to live with our Heavenly Father and families can be together forever.  The Gospel has been restored through Joseph Smith and continually guided by President Thomas S. Monson who is God's servant today.  I love and miss you guys.  Take care and have a great week. 

Love Always,

Elder Lance Kuhi Cabral

*FAREWELL ELDER BECK & WELCOME TO ANTHEM NEW MISSIONARIES*

Dear Family and Friends,

How are you guys all doing?  I am doing great here in Anthem doing the Lord's work.  The weather has still been hot but below 110 so it is not so bad just another month or so then it will start cooling down below 100.  This week was a good week teaching.  We finally met with Micah after a long time because he has been so busy during the summer.  We just talked to him about his thoughts on Baptism and he feels he is does not want to do it and does not fully understand why he needs to be Baptized.  Hopefully we can start meeting with him regularly and help him gain a testimony about the restored Gospel and how he can be blessed by living it.  We had a spiritually, wonderfull lesson with Joni this week on the Book of Mormon and we read 3 Nephi 11 with her.  It was so great reading the powerful - visit of Jesus Christ to the People in America and how he established his Church.  She knows that the gospel is true and the spirit was so strong as she said the closing prayer and thanked God for all her blessing that she receives through her trials.  We also met with Lea this week and had a great lesson with her on how the Book of Mormon came about and what the Book of Mormon talks about.  Pictures and analogies works really well with her to understand the Principles of the Gospel.  This week we did alot of finding through members and keep checking on their missionary work and help them to Share the Gospel.  I had a great exchange with Elder Farnsworth in my area, nothing much went on besides visits which lots of people were not at home.  I had a great District Meeting on teaching people, not lessons by Following the Teaching in PREACH MY GOSPEL in Chapter 10 on Asking inspired questions and checking for understanding to teach to their needs.  On Saturday, I got a call from President Taylor to TRAIN A NEW MISSIONARY for the 3rd time.  The Lord is definitely keeping me working hard until the end of my mission by giving me the most important assignment you can give on a mission to be a trainer.  So Elder Beck is getting transfered along with Elder Ure and Okelberry in my District.  Elder Farnsworth, Elder Burgoyne, and myself are all training a new missionary so we will be getting 3 new missionaries to our District tomorrow at transfers.  So that means I will probably be ending my mission here in Anthem and my new companion will be my last companion on my mission.  I am so grateful for the Trust in the Lord and Mission President to be ending the last few months of my mission by training new missionaries and helping them Learn the things that will make them successful missionaries in inviting others to Come unto Christ.  I went to the Trainer Meeting for the 3rd time and President Taylor always talks about the importance of a missionaries 1st companion in setting the foundation for the missionaries success and setting an example in Obedience to the mission rules.  I hope I get a companion that is excited to do the Lords work and keep me going with his fresh energy to share the gospel with our Heavenly Father's children.  Well that was my great week here in the Arizona Phoenix Mission (APM).  I love and miss you all.  Take care and have a great week. 

Love,

Elder Lance Kuhi Cabral

*ANTHEM MISSION IS LUCKY TO HAVE BEEN CHOSEN TO START ONLINE PROSELYTING THROUGH FACEBOOK*

Dear Family and Friends,

How are you guys doing?  How is everyone enjoying the last of their summer?  Well, I am doing Great here in Anthem doing the Lord's work.  The weather has been hot as usual but in the low 100s so it has not been that bad.  We had a pretty good week teaching this week.  We had a spiritually packed lesson with Joni this week on the Restoration using Jenga to explain how Christ established his church, it was lost through the great Apostasy, and restored through Joseph Smith.  We finally helped her to understand the need to be Baptized by the proper Authority.  We invited her to be baptized and she said she would when she can because of her health.  She knows the Gospel is true but we need to help her gain a Testimony of the Book of Mormon.  We also had 2 great lessons with Lea this week.  Our first lesson we taught her about the Christ Earthly Ministry, the Atonement and she was a little bit confused of why Christ had to suffer for us so we tried to explain but then it came to me that we need to teach the Plan of Salvation first then she will understand it better.  The 2nd lesson we had with her we taught her about how Christ established his church then it was lost but restored through Joseph Smith.  We are teaching her very simply and she is really starting to understand each principle.  I had a great exchange with Elder Okelberry in my area.  We mostly visited members and setting up appointments but after lunch we were heading out when we saw a family moving into the apartemnt complex and offered to help so we helped them.  They appreciated our service and hopefully we can go back and teach them the Gospel.  We had a great zone meeting this week with learning and teaching about Faith and helping our investigators to have Faith in Christ.  They also taught about Tightening up on our Obedience that is in the White handbook that our mission has not been doing as well as we could be.  We got some exciting news on Wednesday that our mission has been authorized by the Church Mission Department to be an ONLINE PROSELYTING MISSION so we are ALL excited to be able to use the internet to find, teach, contact, and share the Gospel with others online.  The zone leaders, assistants, and sister training leaders are going to start learning about it and teach the rest of the mission in our zone conferences later this month, so our mission will be all using online proselyting by the end of this month.  Everyone was excited at zone meeting to be able to have this wonderful tool to Proclaim the Gospel to all the world and be involved in the gathering of Israel.  At our training meeting followup on Thursday, President Taylor stressed about the importance of us as trainers to be an example to the new missionaries in Obedience.  Our mission has to tighten up on even the little things so that we can be Obedient when we do online Proselyting of going on Facebook so we can be focused on our work and not distracted with whats going on in the World.  President Taylor has asked that family and friends check out these links to help support us in the work and not distract us.

PLEASE EMAIL THE LINK BELOW TO YOUR PARENTS, FAMILY AND FRIENDS
http://azphoenixmission.blogspot.com/2013/08/an-online-proselyting-mission.html

I am so privilege that I have an opportunity to use these wonderful tools to help Share the Gospel and help others Come unto Christ in these digital age.  We will be able to go on the internet for 1 hour each day and I am excited to see how much more effective it will be then knocking doors.  These are exciting times to be on a mission with everything that has happened in the past year.  The June 23 Broadcast was the beginning of fulfilling prophecies in Matthew 24:14 - Preaching the Gospel to all the World by using the Internet to reach People and Countries where people cannot hear the wonderful Gospel of Jesus Christ.  I know that this Gospel is true and it has been Restored through Joseph Smith.  Our Heavenly Father lives and loves us ALL.  Jesus is the Christ and he atoned for all of us so we can return to live with God.  Take care and have a great week. 

Love,

Elder Lance Kuhi Cabral  

PS:)  The picture with Me, Sister Murdock who is going home this coming transfer, and Elder Bartleson who were in the Same district In Phoenix north for 3 transfers.  Wonderful spiritual zone meeting with departing Testimonies by our zone leader Elder Kammissoko, Assistant to the President Elder Campbell and Sister Murdock.  Good luck to the 3 of them.