March 10, 2014 - Invest in You as a Missionary, Message from President Cabral

Dear Elders and Sisters,

Today, I would like to address each one of you - I want to do something different, talk to you as if I were giving you a clear, direct and simple personal discourse. After reading the speech, please print it and keep it somewhere where you can quickly grab and read it again. I hope that my words will come into your mind and heart, as Joseph Smith said: "penetrated every fiber of my heart."

I do not know what dreams you have, but let me talk a little bit about it with you. You may be disappointed at this moment, discouragement may have slaughtered your faith while working towards this dream, but I want you to know that this dream in your mind and heart is possible!

Zone Conference, March 5, 2014. Chase is in the very back.

You must have already noticed that this work is laborious, HARD, HARD AND NOTHING IS EASY – A HARD LIFE CHANGE. In order to conquer your dreams, you will be exposed to various disillusions, various failures, a lot of pain, moments where you doubt yourself and maybe you question and ask God – Why? Why is this happening to me? I’m trying to just do good for others, help them to be better people, a good father, mother, children, and citizens of the community – to be an eternal family. I’m not doing anything wrong or hurting anyone. Why does this have to happen to me? You may have already experienced some difficulties along your life. Please do not give up your dream!

Zone Conference, March 5, 2014

The times will come, but they do not come to stay, they will come and pass as quickly as they arrived. Achieve the goals of baptism, education, researchers in the church, and speaking a new language. Win a bad habit by keeping the commandments. Having a successful mission is wonderful. The divine is something that only the elect of us will prove. You are a candidate, the chosen, preordained, designated to succeed. You have not been sent to this earth or mission to fail by failing to reach your goals. The DNA of success is something that really exists in all of us.

Divided into 5 workshops

Believe that it is important that you are a son of God, full of divine potential to overcome all things.  Many missionaries arrive in the mission, serve for 18 months or 2 years and then are out of the mission, go back home and die. These missionaries never grow and if they do something, stop immediately after growing. Stop working on themselves, stop thriving, progressing, whether or not they develop and don't take charge of themselves. They just like to complain, but want to do nothing about their situation.

Most missionaries are not working on their dreams, Why? I will say why: it is because of fear of failure. Missionaries are afraid to error, to try and and say to themselves "what if things do not work out?" These missionaries do not dare.

Missionaries spend much time with others, doing nothing or often mining the faith of others. Some other missionaries know others more than themselves. Why? They invest so much time on others, that they do not know who they really are. I will you to spend some time with yourselves. 

GET RID OF MISSIONARIES OF LOSING YOUR LIFE, IT IS STARTING WITH THE MISSIONARY LOSING THAT IS WITHIN YOURSELF, if you want to accomplish your dream.

YOU MUST GROWING FRIENDSHIP WITH THE MISSIONARIES TO GO TOWARD YOUR DREAMS WITH THOSE FOR WHOM LIFE AND MISSION HAVE A SPECIAL MEANING - START SEARCHING IT IN YOURSELF.

As missionaries you meet those that are a bad influence, disobedient and negative. They just attract bad things, speak only evil and deceive themselves. Keep away from them

Start achieving with yourself. Be the missionary that you've always wanted to be.

I challenge you to set your real value.

REMEMBER:Remember:  You are an unusual race, a royal preisthood, a generation elected. It is necessary to align with the missionaries who are positive, obedient, faithful, full of faith, humble, tireless workers. Align with those missionaries who are hungry to achieve their goals, will make things happen and want more.

Chase (partially blocked) and Elder Johnson near the front this time.

Missionaries who are living their dreams belong to Party Vencendores. Missionaries who are living their dreams are those who know that something will happen and it must begin with them.  If you want to be successful, you will have to do things that you have never done before; you have to leave all of your excuses!

I'm asking you to invest in you as a missionary!

Remember, the view that others have about you does not have to turn into reality. You do not have to go through the mission being a victim. Even if you face disappointments, you have to know within yourself - I can do this. Even if no one will see, I'll see for myself. That's what I believe and I'm willing to die for it. No matter how hard it is or how difficult it is to stay, I will do this!

I will teach 4 lessons per day. 
I will have researched 10 RES dates with the chruch

I WILL TEACH 4 LESSONS PER DAY I WILL HAVE RESEARCHED 10 RES DATE WITH THE CHURCH, BAPTIZE I GO EVERY WEEK OF MY MISSION.

I WANT ME DEVELOP, REVEAL IDEAS, I WANT TO REVEAL POSSIBILITIES.

Some missionaries want to get to the highest level. Listen to me. You cannot get to the next level as a missionary if you do not invest time in the study of the scriptures, You cannot unravel the doctrines of the kingdom if you are not reading the scriptures. Today is a good day to start. I challenge you to all go to conference with the right attitude. I challenge you to invest in yourself by studying the scriptures, especially the Book of Mormon.

I challenge you to ponder the doctrines. I challenge you to spend an hour knowing yourself during personal study. Plan to become who you should be. Become the person that you were created to be. You should plan to be what you were designed for. 

If you are only talking about your dream. If you are only talking about your goals, but have done nothing about them, take the first step. You can leave your parents proud, you can leave your ward and stake proud, you can touch the life of millions of people and the world will not be the same anymore because you decided to act and tread the path less trodden.

Do not let anyone steal your dream. Leave the club, "This is not possible, what terrible things it makes me do." After you face refusal, have a meeting where no one shows up , have someone say, you can count on me and then they don't help you, and you feel lost again and again and again. If the lights went out before you, no matter what happens, keep taking care of your dream, reviewing it all day and telling yourself: "The dream becomes no greater than the ability to get it."

Maybe you will have more work, will need to use more resources, connect with more people. It is possible. Tell yourself daily, "it is not finished. It is not finished until I win."

You can live your dream!

"Having a great dream is as easy as having a little dream," Gen. Clark.
If you can dream, you can do it," Walt Disney.

 I KNOW THAT IS POSSIBLE AND KNOW YOU CAN DO IT.

With love,

President Cabral