*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

*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