*IT IS A BUSY TIME IN BUCKEYE SHARING THE GOSPEL IN 3 WARDS - FAREWELL ELDER ROMRELL & OTHERS*

Dear Family and Friends,

How are you guys doing?  How's your holiday season going?  Well, I am doing great here in the mission field - Sharing the Gospel and helping others receive the Gospel.  It was a pretty crazy week with Elder Romrell finishing his mission and Transfers.  I did not get transferred, it was a mix up that I was on the transfer text.  My new companion is Elder Severe, he is from Wyoming and has been out for 3 months.  We are short on missionaries this transfer so we lost a companionship in our district and combined their wards with ours.  So for this transfer Elder Severe and myself cover 3 wards in Buckeye 1st, Sundance, and Estria Hills Wards - so we are quite busy and have to really plan our days effectively because we only have 1200 miles for the month.  Elder Severe and his last companion covered Estria Hills and Palo Verde but the other companionship in our district took Palo Verde Ward.  There was a bit of confusion of which wards we were going to cover but we figured it out.  Well despite our challenges we had cover an additional ward.  We had a great week doing missionary work.  We had a wonderful lesson with Allie Delgado on the Book of Mormon and going over the Articles of Faith.  She felt the spirit so strongly that she asked us if she could invite her mother to meet with us and we said sure.  It is so great to see people feel the spirit and have a burning desire to share the Gospel with others so they can have the joy and happiness that comes from the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  We also had a great lesson with the Hornberger's kids on remembering the true meaning of Christmas - celebrating the Birth of our Savior Jesus Christ.  On Friday, we had a great Christmas party for Sundance Ward, Allie, the Hornberger's, and a few less actives came and had a great time.  Then on Saturday we had a Christmas party for Estria Hill, which had delicious food and a wonderful Christmas program.  Sunday was a long day for us covering 3 wards we had to go to the Eason building for Estria Hills sacrament at 8:30 am then we drive to the Sundance Building for Sundance sacrament at 10 am for gospel principles then all 3 meetings for Buckeye 1st ward at 12 pm.  Great Christmas talks with Allie, the Hornberger's kids came to  church for this was the 1st time since I have been here, and Katrina Miller in Estria Hills.  We also met with some new investigators Jared and Darlene which we got to know them and answer their questions about the church.  The weather is starting to get cold.  It rained for a few days this past week which was nice because we needed it.  Well that was my week in the mission field.  Hope everyone is having a great holiday season and sharing the great gift, our Heavenly Father gave us which is his only begotten son - Jesus Christ that atoned for each and everyone one of us so as we show our love to him and live his Gospel so we can have Eternal life.  I love and miss you all.  You are all in my prayers. 

Take Care Love,
Elder Lance Cabral

*ALOHA ELDER ROMRELL - READY FOR A NEW ADVENTURE / IT IS TRANSFER TIME*

Aloha Family and Friends,

How are you all doing?  Well as for me, I am doing great here in Buckeye - Sharing the Gospel and helping others Come unto Christ.  This week we had some great lessons with our investigators.  We taught Allie Delgado this week in their new home that is in our area.  It was a great lesson because we started teaching her the commandments, obedience, prayer, scriptures, and the Sabbath day.  We committed her to read and pray daily and we keep following up with her to make sure she is doing it.  She is doing really well and we are preparing her for her Baptism on December 29.  We also had a good lesson with the Hornberger kids on  the Plan of Salvation, using teaching aids for kids is really helpful in helping them understand our Heavenly Father's wonderful plan for all of us to return to live with him and our Families Forever.  We also helped a less active family move because they are moving to Indiana and they had a U-Haul that we were packing and a house full of furniture and stuff so it was a bit of a challenge making things fit so we had to prioritize the most important things because a lot did not fit.  We also had a great Christmas Party on Friday for the Buckeye 1st Ward which had a great turnout and a few investigators that had a great time.  We also had a really good Zone meeting on Friday on the importance of prayer and helping people become fully converted in the Gospel so they can continue to progress in the Gospel, baptism and the receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost is the start of their conversion everything we do in the Gospel should lead us to the Temple and make those covenants with God so we can reach Eternal life in the Celestial Kingdom.  We also did a lot of visits with members, recent converts, and investigators because Elder Romrell was finishing his mission.  On Monday, he packed up his stuff and a member in Buckeye 1st ward took him to the Mission Office for his exit interview and spend his last night in the Mission home with the rest of the departing missionaries that are going home.  I hope he has a good trip home and continues to do well in his life and remember the things he learned on his mission.  I am now with the district leader and his companions until transfer tomorrow.  It was really shocking for me when I got transfer news this morning and I AM GETTING TRANSFERRED so I am going to another area again.  I thought I was going to take over the area and get a new companion.  I was just starting to get to know the area and the members.  I had a good time here in the short time that I was here.  Well that was my fun week here in the mission field doing the Lord's work.  I look forward to my next adventure in my new area and another companion to go two by two sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ and helping others feel our Heavenly Father's love for them.  I love and miss you all.  Hope you all having a great holiday season and remember the true meaning of Christmas, celebrating the Birth of our Savior Jesus Christ and how through his atonement we can have Eternal life.  Your in my prayers for our Heavenly Father to bless you all.  Til' next week take care and have a wonderful week. 

Love,
Elder Lance Kuhi Cabral

*THE PLAN OF SALVATION IS WHERE IT STARTS & "SERVICE" IS GREAT IN BUCKEYE**

Dear Family and Friends,

How are you all doing?  Well as for me, I am doing great here in Buckeye - Sharing the Gospel and helping others Come unto Christ.  The weather is still really nice starting to get chilly during the morning and evening.  This week we had a wonderful lesson with Allie Delgado on the Plan of Salvation and committed her to be baptized on December 29.  It was spiritually a great lesson with 4 members that bearded their testimonies including her newly married husband.  She had some great questions which helped her understand it.  We drew the plan out for her and it works really well to help her understand our Heavenly Father's plan for us to come to earth and show our Heavenly Father that we want to return to live with him and our family for eternity in the Celestial Kingdom.  She felt a little scared to commit to a date but we helped her feel comfortable to make a goal to shoot for to help her prepare for baptism to receive a remission of sin and receive the precious gift of the Holy Ghost to help her stay on the right path towards our Heavenly Father.  On Saturday, Allie and her husband Brandon finally moved into our area after waiting months for their house to be completely built.  So we went over and helped them move in.  We also had a lesson with Rhoda and tried to answer some of her concerns and help her.  She has been taught for a long time and has a hard time living some commandments especially giving up smoking.  We also took the Randall Family who are recent converts that got baptized in October to the Family History Center to help them research their ancestors and hopefully soon take the names of their ancestors to the Temple and be Baptized in their behalf.  It was great to learn about family history so we can use it as another finding method to share with those that might be interested in genealogy.  This week we did a lot of finding investigators through members and prayer tracting.  With this Christmas season we are inviting members to Share the Gospel with their family and friends by inviting them to checkout mormon.org/christmas and invite them to meet with the missionaries and we can come over and share a Christmas message with them.  It is going well no referrals yet but we know with Faith that we will be able to find those that the Lord is preparing to receive the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  Well that was my great week in the mission field.  I hope everyone is doing well.  I know that the Gospel is true and the Church of Jesus Christ has been restored to the earth through Joseph Smith.  We continue to have a prophet, Thomas S. Monson, today that leads us back to our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ.  The Book of Mormon is the Word of God and we can feel the Spirit as we read it.  Take care I love and miss you all.  'Til next week have a wonderful week. 

Love always,
Elder Lance Kuhi Cabral

*CONGRATULATIONS Everyone to The FRUITS of my LABOR back in Rose Lane Ward and THANKS EVERYONE FOR ALL THE BIRTHDAY WISHES FROM BUCKEYE*

Dear Family and Friends,

How are you all doing? How was your Thanksgiving? Well, I had a great Thanksgiving and Birthday in the Arizona Phoenix Mission - Serving the Lord and helping other Come unto our Savior Jesus Christ.  The weather this week has been really nice again starting to get colder in the nights but the days are nice and warm.  We had a lot of Turkey last week.  We had 4 turkey dinners in 3 days, on Wednesday we had dinner with the Dobbs family that just started to come back to church.  Thursday we could only go out by appointment only so we had turkey dinner with the Mahers and then with the Vervado family right after so we were stuffed with turkey, ham, stuffing, mashed potatoes, and pies.  On Tuesday, I was on exchanges with the district leader in their area with his companion Elder Severe who has been out for 2 months.  They cover the Southwest area of our mission so there area is huge.  We went to visit some members that live in the middle of nowhere surrounded by dessert with a 2-3 neighbor houses then you would not find another house for a few miles.  We had a great lesson with Andrea who we got to know her a little bit and taught her part of lesson 1 the Restoration.  We focused on teaching her about how families can be together forever since she had a sister that pasted away a few years ago.  It was a wonderful spiritual lesson to help comfort her and help strengthen her Faith in Jesus Christ and through him and our Heavenly Father's plan we can see our loved ones again.  Back to my area, we had a great week of visiting members and having prayers with them to bless them and get referrals of people who they know can benefit from a prayer.  I had a wonderful birthday yesterday - we had meetings from 8:45-9:20 am then another meeting from 9:30-10:20 am then church from 10 am-3 pm.  There were great talks on the sacrament and how it is the most sacred meeting that we go to partake of the sacrament to remember Jesus Christ and renew our covenants that we made with God.  It has the same cleansing power as Baptism to clean us from our sins and start a new week and always strive to become a be6tter follower of Jesus Christ.  Then we had a birthday dinner with the Carmicaul family whose son Brakens birthday is the same day as mine.  Sister Gazway in the Buckeye 1st ward was nice enough to make me a chocolate cake for my birthday which was very delicious.  So I had lots of food and sweet treats with Thanksgiving and my Birthday.  Then this morning I got a call from Elder Vaoga my last companion - that 5 people The Ledezma kids: Florena, Florissa, Florencio and the Armstrong Kids - Ben and Britney that I taught and prepared got baptized on Saturday and confirmed on Sunday.  That truly made my so happy to know that they got baptized.  Even though I did not witness their baptism and confirmation, it brought me joy to see the fruits of my labors that I helped them receive the Gospel and Come unto Christ and enjoy the blessing that come from entering the gate to eternal life and having the constant companion of the Holy Ghost to help them stay on the right path.  Thank you everyone for the wonderful birthday gifts and cards.  I love and miss you all.  Take care and have a wonderful week. 

Love,

Elder Lance Kuhi Cabral

*HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL FROM BUCKEYE, ARIZONA*

Dear Family and Friends,

How are you all doing?  Well as for me I am doing great here in Buckeye - Sharing the Gospel and helping others Come unto Christ.  The weather was perfect this past week in the 70's during the day which felt wonderful.  Well, I had a good week in the mission field.  My companion Elder Romrell has been sick and has been having a hard time sleeping since last Monday, so we have been mostly inside the whole week.  It has been pretty tough for me to be inside because I love to get out and do missionary work, finding and teaching our Heavenly Father's children the Gospel and how it can bless their lives.  So I have been doing a lot of studying which I love doing to help me gain more knowledge about the Gospel; but after so many hours of studying during the day it gets tiring and I start going crazy because there is nothing much I can do besides watch some church movies and videos.  I have been using some of the time to go through our area book and getting to know the area map and where people live since I will probably be taking over the area when my companion leaves in 3 weeks.  Well, I did have a great time at our mission tour on Wednesday where Elder Koeliker, a General Authority of the 70's came and talked to us.  It was a spiritually packed meeting hearing from him and his wife, with Elder Picroll, President and Sister Taylor, and having a testimony meeting to end our mission tour.  It was so great to hear from Elder Koeliker that we as missionaries have been set apart and are just like the Quorum of the Twelve and 70's to be witnesses of Christ and have the Authority to bear witness of him and preach his Gospel. That really struck me hard that our Heavenly Father would trust us with that calling.  We also are having a Christmas campaign where members can direct their friends and family to check out mormon.org/christmas and also invite us over to share a Christmas message about the Birth of our Savior Jesus Christ.  I also went on mini exchange with my district leader Elder Barlow to a few lessons we had.  We taught Ginny Torez about the Word of Wisdom and taught the Noble family about the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  It was really great to get out and teach them.  Well that was my week.  Hope everyone has a Happy Thanksgiving with their families.  Thank you so much for all your wonderful letters and birthday wishes.  I will truly cherish this Thanksgiving with some great food and being with members of our Ward.  I would just like to say that I am Thankful for you all and everything you do or did in my life to shape the person I am today.  I thank my Heavenly Father for this opportunity to be a missionary and share this wonderful Gospel so Families can be Together for Eternities.  I love and miss you all. 

Love,
Elder Lance Cabral

*THE PRAYER APPROACH IS THE WAY TO GO IN BUCKEYE*

Hola Familia y Amigos,

Como Estas?  I am doing great here in the mission field doing the Lord's work and bringing others unto Christ.   It is starting to get pretty chilly here in Buckeye in the mornings it is in the high 40's then in the day it warms up to about 65.  Time to bring out the sweaters to wear anytime it is below 65.  Well I had a pretty good week.  We got to meet some of our investigators this week and start to teach them.  We had a lesson with the Hornburgers kids this week on the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  They are ready to be baptized but wont until their moms boyfriend agrees that they can get baptized.  We also had a great lesson this week with Allie Delgado on the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  Her husband is a member and they just got married a few weeks ago.  She asked a lot of good questions that we answered to help her understand our beliefs.  We invited her to be baptized and she said if she knows that it is true she will be baptized.  Hopefully, the next time we meet we can set a date with her to be baptized.  On Friday, we had a great zone meeting, a big focus of our meeting was on finding new investigators because nothing starts in missionary work until we find people to teach.  We discussed our prayer contacting where we go to members home, we offer to have a prayer with them to ask God for any blessing they need in their lives, then we ask them if they know anyone that we can have a prayer with and help them feel the spirit that comes from praying to our Heavenly Father.  We are also doing the Prayer approach when we go tracting to soften their hearts and help them recognize the Spirit of Prayer.  We also discussed that by next Spring we should be getting a lot more missionaries in our mission about 250, currently we have 170 missionaries.  So we have to prepare for them by doing the best we can to help them be succesful missionaries.  We have to tighten up on our obedience by following the mission rules, work hard, and set good examples when they come into the field.  On Sunday, we had a multi stake conference with all 95 stakes in Arizona.  It was a broadcast from Salt Lake where Elder Holland and Elder Erying spoke.  Elder Holland gave a powerful talk on missionary work with the new changes in missionary ages and how members have to be more involved in missionary work because times are changing and more and more people are not opening their doors because of what is going on in the world and how members have to open the doors for missionaries by inviting their friends and family to learn more about the Gospel.  We also had a cool experience last night where this Truck driver from Nebraska wanted to talk to some missionaries.  The Bishop from our ward called us and told us to go to a truck stop to talk to him.  He was going through some hard times so we talked to him and gave him some spiritual guidance and comfort.  The spirit is so amazing to help us know what to say to people to help them feel our Heavenly Father's love for them.  Well that was my week in the field.  I love and miss you all.  Take care and God bless until next week have a fantastic week. 

Love,
Elder Lance Kuhi Cabral

*BUCKEYE IS THE PLACE TO BE DURING THE HOLIDAYS*

Dear Family and Friends,

How are you all doing? Well, I am doing great here in my mission - Sharing the Gospel and helping our Heavenly Father's children receive the Gospel in their lives.  Last Wednesday, I got transferred to Buckeye and got a new Companion Elder Romrell.  I was sad to be leaving Glendale because we had some great work going on there; but I helped prepare people to Come unto Christ so I know I accomplished what I was sent there to do.  I was really shocked to be sent out to Buckeye because it is different being in the country.  Our area is pretty big because there are lots of farming fields like cotton, corn, and dairy farms.  It is totally different from the city where there is nothing but houses and buildings.  There are quite a bit of subdivisions, neighborhood's scattered throughout our area that we work in and Share the Gospel.  We cover two wards - Buckeye 1st ward and Sundance ward.  I have met great members yesterday at church.  Elder Romrell is a great companion that is energetic and funny that likes to have fun and do missionary work.  He finishes his mission in 5 weeks so I will be his last companion.  So I am learning from a skilled missionary and I will keep him working hard until the end of his mission.  We have a few investigators that came to church but no one committed with a Baptism date yet.  We are trying to find new investigators by visiting members, having a prayer with them, and then asking if they know anyone that would be interested in learning.  Finding through members are the most effective way to get solid investigators that the Lord is preparing to receive the Gospel.  We go tracting sometimes but it is not very effective because lots of people are not interested or they are not home especially in these areas because people work or go to school during the day.  I live with a very nice family the Maxwell that have 2 twin boys at home, one on a mission in Paris, and 3 on their own or in college.  On Saturday, we had a cultural fair at our Stake Center that was really fun.  There were stations around the cultural hall that represented different countries talked about their cultural and had some sample foods to try.  Guess what the Hawaiian booth had Spam and Rice as their food.  It was great and a lot of fun for those that attended with great presentations including the Hula.  We had our own missionary booth that talked about the Gospel and had pamphlets and Book of Mormons.  Well that was my week in the mission field.  Hope everyone is doing great.  I love and miss you all so much.  My prayers are always with you.  Until next week.  Take care and have a Great week!

Love,
Elder Lance Kuhi Cabral