June 18th - 24th



This week was a different week. On Tuesday we were able to help with the monthly Missionary session
at the temple, 32 missionaries and 7 Senior missionary couples, along with President and Sister Gardner.

Thursday we attended President and Sister Gardner’s last Zone Conference. It was a
wonderful meeting. My assignment was to help with checking mission cars. Since there
were 3 Zones combined there were 32 cars to check and make sure they are clean and
that all the records were up to date. President Gardner was coming back from a previous
Zone Conference and got a crack in the windshield so I took the car to get a new one.



Friday we attended a Methodist Funeral for a man who had become our friend in the
apartment Complex. It was interesting

We had our training on Saturday probably the last time we will see the Mission
President before he goes home this week.


We went on a tour of Boy's Town here in Omaha with our friends Elder and Sister Call.
and our eyes were opened to the great job they do.
Took a tour of the museum and Father Flanagan's home. Took a lot of pictures. Now we
want to see the Movie Boys Town.
Two Father Flanagan  quotes I like

1.“Often it has been said that youth is the nation’s greatest asset. But it is more than
that — it is the world’s greatest asset. More than that, it is perhaps the world’s only hope.”
2.“When parents fail to do their job, when they allow their children to run the streets
and keep bad company, when they fail to provide them with good examples in the
home, then the parents, and not the children, are delinquent.”










Jason klodnicki with Us


Saturday night we worked at the Trail Center and my cousin Elaine Klodnicki son Jason came in to see us, he is a Chaplin in the Air Force in the Omaha Area , we were closing the Trail Center and cemetery. A young lady from Utah was
in the cemetery and left ahead of us. Getting in the car she stopped us asking where to
eat. We asked her where she was staying, she said she was sleeping in her car.
We gave her directions and told her to sleep in the parking lot here. We got in the car
and headed home, down the road we noticed she had pulled over, turning around we went
back, she pulled out. We followed her until she stopped again. She followed us to food.
We invited her to stay in our apartment, she didn't want to. Invited her to church on Sunday.
She attended Karen Group Sunday Morning. At church we invited her to breakfast and to use
our shower then she left for Nauvoo.

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