Paul and Kay Lynn Mission

Spring is Here tulips in bloom Visitors are picking up at both the Trail Center and the Tabernacle.   Spring /Summer has arrived temperatures ranged from the 20's to the 80's, flowers are finally blooming and leaves and blossoms are on the trees. Humidity is rising and Elder White had to buy some short sleeve white shirts. Monday was the monthly senior dinner, Sister White was on the committee.  A preparation that took about a month. After all the worry it came off well.  The dinner was excellent and a special program about Elder McConkie 's last testimony, and the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ was outstanding!  It was highlighted with Sister Taggart singing "I Believe in Christ" that he wrote.  It is great to have the opportunity for the Senior Couples to share these kinds of experiences together. The testimony of Elder McConkie:  “And now, as pertaining to this perfect atonement, wrought by the shedding of the blood of God—I test...

Heber C Kimball, Brigham Young, Willard Richards, This week was spent working mostly at the Kainesville Tabernacle. The Tabernacle is the location in church History where on December 27, 1847.  Brigham Young was sustained by the members of the Church as President of the Church. with Heber C Kimball and Willard Richards sustained as his counselors.  It is one of those places not often visited by people on the Church History tours. Located in Council Bluffs, Iowa it is a peaceful and sacred place. In the Tabernacle is where Oliver Cowdery came back to the Church and was baptized in a creek in the area.  In our family history Mary Ann Huntsman was married to Thomas Green by Orson Hyde in the tabernacle on January 31 1849. It is such a wonderful place to work and to serve. Sister White teaching Omaha Spanish Ward at Tabernacle Teaching Spanish Ward, with a translator! Sister White gets to give the tours in the small Visitors Center and to pres...

Zone Conference Busy at the Trail Center and Tabernacle this week.  With Spring Break in Utah we had a lot of families traveling through to Nauvoo and other Church Sites. Families from all over Utah even a family from Farmington who knows our Grandchildren. We had a lot of tours over the week, and  hope that it will just be a taste of the things that are to come. There was a dinner in our apartment complex and we met some of our neighbors.  It was interesting to find we were the youngest couple there! Sunday we changed wards we now go to the Fontenell Ward. In the ward they have a group of refugees from Myanmar.  They speak the Karen Language.  Sister White and I are assigned to that group. We were able to sing with them singing Karen, because of  our phonetic song books.  It is really great! When Elder White bore his testimony we needed an interpreter to translate his testimony.  Sister White is in the Primary with the younger children. T...

Monday started as a really good week, thinking all we had to do was work our shifts at the Trail Center and Tabernacle. Working the morning shift on Monday is really a great time. We have a devotional with the Sisters and prayer then we open the Trail Center. Things were going great when the Director called me in and asked if Sister White and I could do the Saturday morning training for the Sisters and Senior Couples. We just commented last Saturday how we were lucky we did not have to train. When you serve in a mission where the President and Trail Center Director can quote scripture and give lessons that are so good, it is hard to think that we are knowledgeable enough to train in their footsteps.  That made the week very intense; lost sleep and constant prayer. Since Sunday was Easter we chose to do the last few days of Christ's mortal life.  Sister White was able to use the years of training and do the Last Supper, Gethsemane, the Trial, the Crucifixion, and the Resurrecti...