*ALOHA TO ROSE LANE WARD BUT CONTINUE TO COME UNTO CHRIST*

Aloha Family and Friends,

How are you all doing?  How is the weather back home in the islands?  I am doing just great here in Glendale - Sharing the Gospel and helping others Come unto Christ.  The weather is really nice in the 80's during the day and starting to get really chilly in the nights and mornings are at the high 50's.  We had a great week teaching the Gospel and helping our Heavenly Father's children receive the Gospel in their lives.  We got some great new investigators this week.  We are starting to teach Jacob and Joseph Luzinia (Georgiana and Jessicas brothers that we baptized) and committed them to be baptized on November 24.  We like to do fun activities with them and teach them simply things to help them pay attention.  That family I talked about last week that shouted at us while we were riding down the road we met with the 2 sisters that lives in our area and taught them the Restoration of the Gospel.  We also met with Ranae and Candace a referral from Bishop and taught them the Restoration of the Gospel.  It was spiritual & wonderful lesson with them and we had a sister from our ward who is leaving on her mission to Brazil in November come out with us and help us teach and testify of the Gospel which she did great.  We also had some great lessons with the Ledesma kids - Florena, Florencio, and Florissa teaching them the commandments and reviewing the Restoration of the Gospel with them.  We also had a great lesson with the Armstrong kids - Ben and Brittney, they are ready to be baptized but the Grandma won't bring them to church and we even stop by on Sunday to pick them up but they were not ready.  This Sunday was a great Sabbath Day.  During sacrament our ward had their primary presentation which was wonderful to hear the primary kids give talks and sing hymns, they did an amazing job.  It was so great to see Georgiana come to church with her husband Gabriel and their kids.  He had a great time at church and they stayed all three hours.  We asked Georgiana about Gabriel taking the missionary lessons, and she said she is working on it and she will let us know when he is ready, so we will let her do some missionary work and she is doing a great job of getting him to just come to Church which is one of the biggest obstacles we have teaching people the Gospel is having them feel comfortable to come to Church.  Then on Sunday evening we went to a missionary musical Fireside, which had a strong spirit.  Music truly brings the spirit especially when they feel it through the fireside because of our Savior, Jesus Christ.  Well we got Transfer news this morning and I am GETTING TRANSFERRED tomorrow.  I was so sad to hear that I am leaving the Rose Lane area.  I had a great time here teaching the gospel to all those that we helped Come unto Christ through Baptism and Confirmation.  This was a great area where we taught some wonderful converts that I loved to serve.  I will truly miss all of our converts, investigators, members, and people that I got to know and love.  I am so happy that I am leaving this area better than when I came in because we got some great work in this area with some wonderful people set to be baptized in November and the coming months.  The Lord needs me someplace else where people need to hear the Gospel from me.  Well that was my wonderful week in the missionary field.  I know that the Gospel and Church is true.  God is our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ is our Savior and Redeemer that loves us so much.  The Gospel has been restored through Joseph Smith and we have a prophet today, Thomas s. Monson that continues to guide us back to live with God and our families for eternities.  I love and miss you all so much.  Have a wonderful Halloween and a fantastic Week.  Till next week in my new area with my new companion.  Take Care!

Love,
Elder Lance Kuhi Cabral.

*WORDS OF WISDOM FROM APOSTLE NEIL L. ANDERSON & CONGRATULATIONS GEOGIANNA ON YOUR BAPTISM*

Dear Family and Friends,

How are you all doing? I am doing just great here in Glendale - Sharing the Gospel and helping others Come unto Christ.  The weather is really nice, it is pretty warm during the day and it get s kind of cold in the nights.  I had a wonderful week in the mission field with wonderful spiritual experiences.  Georgianna got baptized on Saturday and I had the honor to baptizing her.  The spirit was so strong as she made her covenants with our Heavenly Father and enter the path towards Eternal Life.  She was so excited the whole week and was full of joy as she got baptized and became a Disciple of Jesus Christ.  Her newly husband and some of her family came to witness her baptism.  My companion and Elder Goldsberry in our district focused the missionary presentation on families and it definitely brought a great spirit that Family can be Together Forever through living the Gospel.  We hope the husband gets interested in learning about the Gospel and how it can strengthen their families and lead them to the Temple.  Georgianna said he might want to take the missionary lessons soon, so we keep praying and she is still working with him.  On Saturday, we had a mission conference where we got to meet and shake hands with Elder Neil L. Anderson - Quorum of the Twelve Apostle and General Authorities Elder Maynes & President of the Seventy & Bishop Causse.  It was a very powerful and spiritual meeting to hear them talk.  To be in the presence of an Apostle of the Lord - a special witness of Jesus Christ was such a privilege.  He gave a wonderful talk on the Doctrine of Christ and how we teach all those we come in contact with that the fulness of the Gospel has been restored in these days.  It was wonderful to be there with all the missionaries in the Arizona Phoenix Mission.  Saturday was a spiritually packed day with Mission Conference and a wonderful Baptism for Georgianna and another Baptism for Jessie and Georgianna (Elder Mason and Goldsberry), both companionship in our districts had a baptism this past weekend and we were so excited.  I had some wonderful experiences this week.  On Thursday, I was on splits with a ward missionary visiting an investigator in an apartment complex when a lady came up to us wanting to learn more about our Church.  So we talked to her for a while and got her contact information so we can go back and teach her more.  Then on Sunday we were riding our bikes to our Dinner appointment when a guy was yelling at us.  So we went back to talk to him and he said he was interested in learning about the Gospel so we talked to him and got his contact information.  He lives out of our area so we referred him to the missionaries in his area, but still a wonderful experience to see the Lord truly prepares people to receive the Gospel we just have to pray to be at the right place at the right time so we can teach them the Gospel.  The Ledesma kids are doing good, they were planned to be baptized on October 27 but they cannot untill they come to church twice.  We are going to change their date to November.  The Armstrong kids are also doing great, they are ready to be baptized but they need to come to church too.  The grandma said she will shock us this weekend and bring them to church so we hope it happens and we will do everything we can to help them Come to Church and feel the Spirit.  Well that was my awesome week in the mission field doing the Lords work and helping other enjoy the blessings that our Heavenly Father has for them as they are obedient in living the restored Gospel.  Hope everyone is doing fantastic.  I love and miss you all.  My prayers are with you always.  Until next week.  Take care.

Love,
Elder Lance Cabral

*CONGRATULATION's to GEORGIANNA & GABRIEL in Glendale, AZ*

Hola Familia y Amigos,

Como Esta Todo? Well as for me, I am doing great here in Glendale sharing the Gospel and helping our brothers and sisters Come unto Christ.  The weather here is starting to get cold especially in the morning and night’s(60's).  During the day it is nice and warm with a cool breeze which reminds me of home.  The work is going great in the Rose Lane Ward.  Georgianna got married on Saturday to Gabriel.  It was a very beautiful wedding to see them make their covenants with each other. They were so happy when Bishop Reese announced them as husband and wife.  It was a good turnout of family, friends, and some ward members that came to witness their special day.  It is amazing to see how after 8 years of being together and 4 kids they finally chose to get married.  After she got married she met the requirements to be baptized.  She had her baptism interview on Sunday and passed with flying colors.  She is so excited to be baptized this Saturday, October 20 and make her covenants with God.  The Lord truly prepared her to receive the restored Gospel.  I had some amazing spiritual experience teaching her the Gospel and helping her to come closer to our Heavenly Father.  The Armstrong kids are doing great, Ben and Britney want to get baptized but they need to come to Church twice before they can. Their grandma keeps telling us that she will come to Church but they never show up.  The grandma is less active and has not been to church in a long time.  So we do not really know what we can do get her to church. It is hard sometimes working with kids that really want to get baptized but their parents will not bring them to church.  We do not want to baptize them into inactivity, we will keep working with them.  The Ledesma kids are also doing great.  Florena  wants to get baptized because she knows it will bring her closer to God.  Florrisa is not really sure so we keep teaching her so she can have a desire to be baptized.  Then Florencio is getting more involved in the lessons, reading and answering questions.  It is great to see the spirit softening his heart to get him more interested in the Gospel and how it can bless his life.  When we first starting meeting with them he did not want to learn and would not pay attention. The Wookie family are doing great, but they do not come to church.  We call them in the morning but they do not answer.  We have been struggling to get investigators to come to church so we are going to get some good fellowship family that can come to the lessons with us and invite and offer them a ride to church.  Wednesday we had a wonderful meeting with President and Sister Taylor for our Quarterly Zone Interviews.  Great meetings help us focus on when to drop an investigator that is not progressing.  It is sometimes sad to stop visiting investigators that you love and want them to receive the Gospel but if we are not fulfilling our purpose as missionaries by helping them building their faith, repentance, getting baptized, receiving the Holy Ghost, and enduring until the end then we have to give them some time when they are ready.  We also went over the baptism calendar and how we can help our investigators for Baptism by having a calendar and the things they need to do so they can be ready come unto Christ.  We had a wonderful Sabbath Day yesterday, we had a recently returned missionary that returned from his mission in West Africa.  It was so spiritually uplifting to hear his missionary experience and how he helped our Heavenly Fathers children receive the Gospel.  Well that was my great week here in the mission field.  I love and miss you all so much.  Thank you to everyone that writes to me and keeps me going in doing the Lords work.  Till next week Adios. 


Te Amo,
Elder Lance Kuhi Cabral

*182nd GENERAL CONFERENCE FROM GLENDALE, AZ*

Dear Family and Friends,

How are you all doing?  How was your General Conference Weekend?  Well for me I am doing great here in Glendale, Arizona - Sharing our Heavenly Father's wonderful Gospel to his children so they can have his blessings and return to live with him.  The weather is really starting to get nice it was in the 90's most of the week, but this week should start getting more warm in the 80's.  The nights are really cool and great when I am riding around sharing the Gospel and going to our appointments.  Well the work is going pretty well.  It was a tough week for us because did not have too much lessons with our investigators only 3 and none of our investigators came to watch General Conference with us at the Stake Center or in a members home.  We reminded them about General Conference but something came up or they were busy.  We are really going to try to set up Baptism Calenders with our investigators that we set appointments to meet with them on certain days and time, church, and set a date with them to have as a goal to prepare them to be baptized on a certain day that we pray and feel they can be ready to make their covenants with God.  Baptism calenders are very effective.  If they understand how it will help them progress toward baptism and receive the Holy Ghost and if we as missionaries emphasize the importance of keeping track with them what we have taught them and what they need to know to be ready to be baptized.  We try to teach them all the missionary lessons before they are baptized, and anything else we feel they need to continue to learn before  they become completely converted to the Gospel and continue to progress after they are baptized.  General Conference was very spiritually uplifting and inspiring. It was so wonderful to hear from our prophet and church leaders and their counsel to us to keep us on the straight and narrow path towards Eternal Life.  It was so exciting to hear the announcement from President Monson that young men can start their missions at 18 and young women can go when their 19.  Hopefully we will have a lot more missionaries in the coming months and years to Serve the Lord and share the Gospel.  We surely got a lot of spiritual nourishment with all those wonderful spiritual messages that will make us stronger and better Disciples of Christ to withstand the adversity of the world.  The Armstrong Family is doing well.  We had a great lesson with them on the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  We thought it would be fun to do an activity where we had a rope that represents the Iron rod and had the principles of the gospel along the rope: Faith, Repentence, Baptism, Holy Ghost, and Endure to the End.  After they got to the end of the rope we explained all the principles along the way, they got to pick the fruit from the Tree of Life which we gave them candy as a prize.  Object lessons work really well with kids cause it is fun and they pay attention better.  We also did this with the Wookie Family kids and they also loved it.  I loved the talks during General Conference that they gave analogies to help us understand what they are teaching better it works really well for all us to understand the Gospel more effectively.  We are going to try to implement in our teaching so we are better Servants of Jesus Christ the greatest teacher, who would always teach in parables to help people understand it clearly.  Georgianna is also doing great.  She is getting married by Bishop on Saturday then she will be ready to be baptized on October 20.  Well that was my great week in the mission field with lots of great experiences that makes being on a mission the best time of my life. Well hope everyone has a great week.  You ALL are always in my prayers. Take Care!

Love Always,
Elder Lance Kuhi Cabral

*STRIVING FOR THE STANDARDS OF EXCELLENCE*

 Aloha Family and Friends,

How are you guys doing? Well, I am doing just great here in Glendale - Sharing the Gospel and helping our Heavenly Father's children come closer to him.  I had a wonderful week teaching our investigators the Gospel and helping them prepare to enter the gate back to our Heavenly Father through Baptism and receiving the Holy Ghost. This week my companion and I goals were to reach our missions Standards of Excellence which is 2 baptism within the month, and within the week from Monday thru Sunday 4 people with a baptism date, 5 investigators at sacrament, 10 member present lessons, and 5 new investigators.  We had 2 baptisms earlier this month with Barb and Jessica, 8 investigators with a baptism date in October, 3 investigators at church, 12 member present lessons, and 7 new investigators.  We tried our best but came a little bit short on investigators at sacrament.  We reminded them about church and even setup rides for some but something came up for lots of them such as not feeling well, sleeping in, or do not answer our calls.  So we are really going to focus on teaching the importance of the Sabbath Day with them and help them have a desire to come to church and feel the spirit.  Coming to church is so important in an investigators progress in the Gospel to help them keep the commandments, learn more about the Gospel, having fellowship from the Ward, and after their baptized renew their covenants that they make with our Heavenly Father so they can always have the Spirit to be with them.  Georgiana is doing really great, this week she talked to the Bishop about being married and they set a date to be married on October 13. We were so excited for her and her boyfriend found a job this week and telling his family he is getting married.  We set her baptism date for October 20 a week after she gets married so she can finally make her first covenants with God.  The Armstrong kids - Ben and Britney are also doing great, we are reviewing the lessons with them to prepare them for their baptism on October 13.  We taught Raymond the Gospel of Jesus Christ and committed him to be baptized on October 27 as a goal.  He does not feel ready to be baptized until he feels like he knows more, so we will keep working with him until he feels ready and he also needs to get married first so we need to go over the Law of Chasity with him. We met with a former investigators this week who was taught a year ago.  Great family from Africa and we are going through the lessons with them again to refresh them about the Gospel and we committed them to be baptized on October 27.  Thursday was a great and fun day, in the morning I went to a specialized musical training meeting which was a wonderful spiritual meeting.  We were taught how to lead the music as a chorister and how wonderful music can bring the spirit into our meetings and lessons.  We had a special guest, William Johnson taught us about using appropriate music for our meetings.  He is a professional piano player and played some beautiful hymns that was so spiritually uplifting to listen to.  Then in the evening we took some of our recent converts and investigators to the Mesa Temple - Barb, Jessica, and Georgiana came and had a great time.  We took them around the Mesa Temple and went through the visitors center and watched some great videos about how Families can be Together Forever through living the Gospel and the ordinances performed in the House of the the Lord.  It was so great to hear Jessica, a 15 year old say that she wants to find someone in the church so she can go inside the Temple someday and be married for time and all eternity.  It was so wonderful to go to the Mesa Temple and feel the strong Spirit there.  Well that was my wonderful week in the mission field hope everyone is doing awesome. The weather is still pretty hot during the days - 100's but the nights are starting to get chilly low 70s.  I know that the Gospel and church is true and that it has been restored through Joseph Smith and we have a living prophet today, Thomas S. Monson who continues to lead us on the straight and narrow path towards eternal life.  I know that the Book of Mormon is the Word of God and it testifies that our Savior, Jesus Christ atoned for all of us so we can return to live with our Heavenly Father and our families for Eternity. Your all in my prays. Have a fantastic week. Take care.

Love,
Elder Lance Kuhi Cabral