*MEMORIAL DAY 2013 & WELCOME ELDER BECK & ANTHEM DISTRICT MAY WE ALL STRIVE TO DO OUR "BEST"

Dear Family and Friends,

How are you all doing? How was your Memorial Day weekend?  I am doing great here in Anthem - Sharing the Gospel and helping others Come unto Christ.  The weather is still not so bad yet high 90s & low 100s.  It was a busy week starting with Great transfers with 23 new missionaries, 12 elders and 11 sisters.  My new companion is Elder Beck from Salt Lake City, Utah.  He is a great elder excited to be on his mission serving the Lord.  It was exciting seeing the different transfers and assignments being made, but a bit sad because anyone who got transferred to the Phoenix and Phoenix South Zones will be leaving our mission in July to the Arizona Tempe Mission.  36 great missionaries including many that I know and they will truly be missed.  So I will be in Anthem for the next 11 weeks at least because of the 12 week infield training of new missionaries, which I enjoy training and passing on what I have learned on my mission to a new missionary so he can be successful, plus we have 2 hours of companionship study which is really nice for planning for our investigators, studying preach my gospel, and role playing to receive revelation that will help our investigators.  My 1st District meeting as a District leader was great, we discussed our investigators and how we can help them progress, then I taught on teaching our investigators about the Book of Mormon and how to help investigators know that the Gospel has been restored by reading and praying about the Book of Mormon.  It is truly amazing that the Lord guides me to fulfill my assignment as District leader and trainer.  Being a District leader is a big responsibility but a great assignment to serve, love and help my district members do well.  On Sunday, I had to go to a Stake coordination meeting and discuss how the Stake can help the work.  On Sunday, I have to get our key indicator and report them to the zone leaders.  My District is pretty young except me, Elder Beck is new, then there is Elder Farnsworth who is also new and Elder Ure 5 months, Elder Okelberry 2 months and Elder Lovestedt 6 months.  This is a great District that is excited, obedient, and diligent.  I had a great leadership meeting on Friday from 9-4 with Tracy Watson who is in charge of proselyting in missionary work over the Church.  Exciting things that they are doing to help the work move forward.  They started off announcing that in the future missionaries will have iphones and ipads to use as digital planners, area books, show videos, mormon.org, facebook to keep in contact with investigators and get new investigators, and many more great things that will help the work.  They are doing some trial runs in some missions including a district in our mission with the iphones and ipads that was exciting to hear how it helps them be more effiecient.  We also had great teaching from Brother Donaldson, a former Mission President from the district videos that we watch regularly, he gave some great teaching on repentence and helping us to live our purpose.  It was a spiritual, packed day with great teachings that we as leaders will help our missionaries be succesful.  Not much teaching investigators this week but I hope we can have some this week to help Elder Beck get some teaching experience and find some new investigators that are prepared to receive the gospel.  We do not have anyone really progressing right now so a bit of a struggle.  We have been working with members teaching them and seeking referrals but nothing yet, but they will come as we work hard.  Well that was my great week.  Hope everyone is doing well.  I love and miss you all.  Take Care and have a fantastic week. 

Love,

Elder Lance Kuhi Cabral

*WELCOME ALL NEW MISSIONARIES & CONGRATULATIONS LANCE AS A DISTRICT LEADER IN ANTHEM, AZ*

Dear Family and Friends,

How are you all doing?  I am doing great here in Anthem - Sharing the Gospel and doing the Lord's work.  I had a great week but also a bit challenging and overwhelmed.  We had a great Zone conference on working more with members by serving and teaching them the Doctrine of Christ to help build their trust to Share the Gospel with those they know and find people for us to teach.  We also had great learning exercises on planning more effectively and using our missionary planner to its fullest; and we had a great teaching lesson by President and Sister Taylor on Repentence and helping us and our investigators to truly repent and forsake their sins so they can enjoy the blessing that come from keeping God's commandments.  We had only 1 lesson this week with Emma on Agency and keeping the Law of Chasity.  She is 17 and has been investigating the church for 2 years but cannot get baptized because her parents will not allow her to until she is 18.  She will make a great Mormon in a year and she is planning to go on a mission when she is 19.  We had 4 lessons scheduled with investigators but they fell through for various reasons.  Some investigators we have not been able to have a lesson with for weeks, so we are going to see if they truly want to learn more about the Gospel.  We did alot of finding through members and are starting to teach them short 20 minute lessons to apply the things we learned from zone conference and help them Share the Gospel and gain trust in us as Servants of Christ.  Well the anxious part of the week was first when I got a call from President Taylor on Saturday to TRAIN A NEW MISSIONARY AGAIN.  I was not that nervous because I have done it before and it is not so bad.  Then this morning I got another call from President Taylor asking me TO BE A DISTRICT LEADER.  These are 2 big assignments that the Lord and Mission President Taylor has trust and confidence that I can do.  I have to be a role model in Obedience and example to my new trainee and district which there are 6 Elders in my District and 2 will be new missionaries tomorrow.  I hope I can have the Lordss guidance and spirit to help me fullfill these assignments.  I have to plan and conduct district meetings, go on exchanges with everyone in my district and zone leaders every transfer, take call in summaries of the week and report them to the zone leaders every Sunday, do baptism interviews, and help out the Elders in my district the best way I can.  So there is lots of pressure on me but I know that the Lord knows I am ready to do it.  I went to a training meeting yesterday and so one of the sisters that came out with me is going home today along with 3 other sister missionaries who finished their mission.  There are 23 new missionaries coming into our mission tomorrow and 9 of them are sister missionariess.  Alot more sister missionaries are coming on missions since the announcement of age change.  I am so priveledged to be on a mission in these exciting time when the Lord needs every worthy young man and young women to preach his Gospel.  I know that this Gospel is true and by living it we can be blessed.  I love and miss you all.  Take care and have a great week. 

Love,

Elder Lance Kuhi Cabral

*HAPPY BELATED MOTHER'S DAY TO ALL MOTHER'S FROM ANTHEM, ARIZONA-THESE GIFTS ARE FOR YOU, MOM*

Dear family and friends,

How are you guys?  How was your Mother's Day?  I had a great week here in Anthem - Sharing the Gospel and doing the Lord's work.   It was still pretty warm this week but starting to get hotter like in the 100's.  We had 2 great lessons with Te Te this week on the Plan of Salvation and the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  It was great to teach her about our Heavenly Father's plan and when we live his gospel we can return to live with him and our Families Forever in his Kingdom.  We had to teach her very simply because she is from France and English is her second language.  She was here visiting some family who are members, but she is going back to France this week.  It was a great privilege to teach her and hope she continues to learn more about the Gospel and how it can bless her.  We invited her to be baptized but she did not feel ready, so we told her to continue to meet with the missionaries, we bore our testimony and invited her to read and pray to know if his Gospel has been restored.  She felt the spirit and is truly prepared to receive the Gospel.  We also had a great lesson with Rome on Elder Holland's talk from this past general conference and taught him about strengthening his Faith and continue to trust in the Lord through trials and he will give you guidance and make you stronger.  We had a great Mother's Day with great talks on the roles of Mother's and how their Mother's helped them.  We taught the CTR 6 class so the primary teachers could go to Relief Society for a special Mother's day program.  It was great but they were a handful it was a task to keep them focus.  It was great to talk to my mom, my dad, and my sister Nikki on my mission experiences for the last time.  We are doing a lot of finding through members, potential investigators, street contacting, and tracting.  It is a bit of a trial trying to find people to teach but I know that the Lord is pleased in our diligence as we are fulfilling our purpose to invite others to Come unto Christ.  That was my great week in the mission field.  Hope everyone is doing well.  I love and miss you all.  I know that the gospel is true and through living the Gospel of Jesus Christ we can be blessed for Eternity.  Take care and have a great week.

Love, 

Elder Lance Kuhi Cabral

*TYLER - LET'S STRIVE TO BE A MISSIONARY THRU MEMBERS, TRACTING & INVESTIGATORS*

Dear Family and Friends,

How are you guys all doing?  Well, I had another great week here in Anthem doing the Lord's work.  The weather this week has still been pretty good, some days got a little hot.  This week was another a slow week with 2 lessons.  We had a great lesson with Te Te on the Restoration of the Gospel and helping her to know that the Gospel has been restored through Joseph Smith by reading and praying about the Book of Mormon and the Holy Ghost will tell her the truth.  We took a Priest age young man name Tyler that is preparing to go on his mission this summer and he enjoyed teaching and testifying about the Gospel to prepare him.  We also had a great lesson with Rome on the Gospel of Jesus Christ, he does not want to commit to be baptized because he does not feel like he has a strong Faith in Christ.  So we are going to help him.  We had a great zone meeting on keeping our area books updated to show the Lord that we love and care about this part of the Vineyard he has given us to teach his Gospel.  It is so important to keep our records updated for future missionaries especially if both missionaries are new to the area like I was in one ward in Buckeye.  We also had great teaching and practicing on repentence and helping our investigators that have truly repented and are changing and are ready to make their covenants that they made at baptism.  We did a lot of finding this week through members, tracting visiting potential and former investigators.  We got a few referrals from members but no new investigators yet.  That was my great week here in the mission field.  Hope all is well.  I love and miss you all.  I know that our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ lives and loves you.  That through our Heavenly Father's plan Families can be Together Forever.  The Gospel has been restored and the fullness is on the earth. 

Love,

Elder Lance Kuhi Cabral