*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

*NEVER BE DISCOURAGED BECAUSE LIFE IS GREAT IN BUCKEYE WITH ITS BEAUTIFUL SUNSET*

Hola Familia y Amigos,

Como estas todo?  I am doing great here in Buckeye - Sharing the Gospel and helping our Heavenly Father's children Come unto Christ.  The weather here in Arizona is still pretty cold in the mornings but during the day it is still nice and warm.  This week is transfer week being only a 5 week transfer with the change of the MTC cutting everyone's MTC time by 1/3 so English Missionaries will be there for only 2 weeks.  I am not getting transferred because I am training Elder Wilson for another transfer as part of the 12 week infield training program.  This transfer there is going to be 26 new missionaries with only 4 finishing their mission so our mission will be at over 200 missionaries in the Arizona Phoenix Mission (APM), so they will be splitting areas so we might be covering only 1 ward, not sure yet.  Well, it was great to hear that there will be 58 new missions opening this July with 2 new missions here in Arizona with the Scottsdale and Gilbert Missions.  Our mission will be getting smaller with the increase of missionaries coming out with the age change.  We are excited and anxious to hear how they are going to transition the 2 new missions.  Well, I had a great week hear in Buckeye - Sharing the Gospel.  We had a great lesson with Destiny, a part member wife on the Plan of Salvation and we committed her to be Baptized on March 9 and told her to pray if she should be baptized.  We stopped by to visit them yesterday and see if she received an answer and she said she did.  We were so excited for her and she feels this is what God wants her to do is to be baptized and make that covenant with God.  We also had a great lesson with Megan on the Atonement and the Sabbath day.  She has a concern about coming to church because people will judge her for being a single mother and she does not have nice clothes to wear.  We beared testimony that God will bless her for keeping the Sabbath day and she will feel the Spirit as she comes to church.  She did not come to church so we are going to get more fellowship from the Relief Society at lessons to help her feel more comfortable about coming to church.  We had a tough day on Saturday visiting our investigators in Palo Verde area we stopped by Loly and she said she is moving to Kentucky this week.  Carolyn smoked as we stopped by to visit her whenever she gets stressed out she smokes and cannot give it up because she has been smoking for over 30 years, then we stopped by to visit Marshall to see how he is doing and offer to help him but he does not want to meet with us anymore.  It was hard but we cannot get discouraged as long as we are doing everything we can to help them strengthen their Faith in Christ to help them through their lives and God will continue to help them when they are ready to receive his Gospel and realize how it will bless their lives and help them prepare to return to God's kingdom.  Well that was my week in the mission field.  Hope everyone is doing great.  I love and miss you all.  I know that the church is true and Jesus Christ is our Savior and Redeemer.  Take care and have a great week.

Love,
Elder Lance Kuhi Cabral

*CONGRATULATIONS WILLIAM JACKSON on your BAPTISM & MALU & TYLER on your ENGAGEMENT*

Dear family and friends,

How are you guys doing?  I am doing great here in Buckeye doing the Lord's work.  I had a great week teaching our investigators, Sharing the Gospel, wonderful Zone Conference, and a spiritual Baptism for William.  The weather is really nice still a bit chilly in the morning but during the days it is nice and warm.  William Jackson got baptized on Sunday it was great to see him follow Christ and make that covenant with Christ.  There was a strong spirit as he was baptized by his grandfather, great support from his family that witnessed his Baptism.  Hopefully his families that are non-members felt the spirit and want to learn more including his father.  We had a great Zone Conference on Wednesday studying Jacob 5, learning about using visuals in our lessons and preparing our members to help us teach the Gospel.  We had a great lesson with Scott McBryon on the Plan of Salvation and invited him to be baptized on March 16 and he accepted.  We also had a wonderful lesson with Destiny on the Plan of Salvation, the spirit was so great as we taught and testified about the Atonement.  We invited her to be baptized but she wants to learn more before she commits.  We also had a great lesson with the Washington Family on the Book of Mormon.  They have some concerns about Joseph Smith being a prophet so we are answering their questions and helping them gain a testimony on the Book of Mormon because everything lies upon it.  The Book of Mormon is the keystone of our religion and they can know the Gospel has been restored in these latter days by reading the Book of Mormon and praying to God to answer their prayers through the Holy Ghost.  Well that was my week here in the mission field.  A focus for us is setting dates for our investigators to be Baptized and finding those that the Lord is preparing to hear his Gospel and follow him through Baptism and receiving the Holy Ghost to guide them in their lives back to our Heavenly Father's presence.  I love and miss you all.  You're always in my prayers that God will bless you and keep you all safe.  I love being a servant of Christ, sharing his Gospel and helping others have the joy that comes from the Gospel.  Families can be together for Eternity.  I know the church is true and God lives and Jesus Christ is our Savior and redeemer and through him we can be happy forever.  Congratulations to Malu and Tyler!  I am so happy for you guys.  Take care and have a great week. 

Love, 

Elder Lance Kuhi Cabral

*CONGRATULATIONS TO APRIL HARRIS & MAY YOU and ALL OF US CONTINUE TO CTR-Choose The Right*

Dear Family and Friends,

How are you guys doing?  Well, I am doing great here in Buckeye - sharing the Gospel and doing the Lord's work.  The weather has been a little cold this week but still pretty nice.  Well, I had a great week teaching the Gospel to our  investigator's and helping them Come unto Christ through Baptism and being confirmed the Holy Ghost.  We had a wonderful Baptism for April Harris on Saturday.  There was a strong spirit as her father baptized her and made her first covenant with God to enter that gate back to our Heavenly Father.  There was a great turnout of family and friends from the ward that came to support her and witness her make Promise with God.  She was so happy as she received the Holy Ghost to help her stay on the straight path and guide her to Choose the Right and keep her safe.  We had a great lesson with Destiny this week on the Restoration of the Gospel and she loves coming to church and how friendly everyone is.  We also had a great lesson with Marsha a new investigator, we were planning to teach her the Plan of Salvation but we ended up teaching her about prophets and how the Book of Mormon is so important in the Restoration of the Gospel and how we can know Joseph Smith was a true prophet that was called by God by reading and praying about the Book of Mormon.  As we prepare in our studies, we have the Spirit to be with us even though we teach something we did not plan for the Spirit is with us as we teach to the investigators needs.  We also had a spiritually wonderful lesson with William on the Plan of Salvation and going over his Baptism interview questions.  His mom who has been less active for many years bore a powerful testimony on keeping the Word of Wisdom even though she struggle to give up smoking and coffee.  It was a wonderful lesson as we testified to her that Jesus Christ can give her the strength to overcome those addictions and she will be blessed and free from it as she has Faith in Jesus Christ and through his Atonement he knows the struggles we go through and wants to help us.  I am so honored to be a servant of Jesus Christ to preach his Gospel and have the spirit to teach our Heavenly Father's children the truthfulness of the gospel.  The spirit is what converts people to Christ, we are just instruments in the Lord's hands.  We had a great Sabbath Day with 2 Ward Conferences for both Estrella Hills and Palo Verde ward.  Great talks by the youths, Bishop, and Stake President of the Stake Annual Theme "Living your Life to be Worthy to have the Holy Ghost and Following those Promptings".  Well that was my great week.  I love and miss you all  so much.  You are always in my prayers.  Take care and have a fantastic week. 

Love for Eternity,
Elder Lance Kuhi Cabral