Winter has arrived here at Winter Quarters. Snow and cold all week. We have been working hard at the Visitor centers with visitors and Gingerbread Festival. Families visiting with there children who are here at school and local children out of school made for a lot of people at the Trail Center and Tabernacle.
Senior Thanksgiving Dinner
Our Apartment
Thanksgiving was great for the senior missionary couples here. We had dinner together with five couples and invited people who live in our complex for Thanksgiving dinner We had about 18 people at our dinner, 12 missionaries, 3 people who lived in the complex and 3 people from the Karen Group of the Fontenelle Ward, it was fun. Also the 5 missionary couples delivered Food baskets to the local Fire Stations in the area. We wanted to give thanks to those who had to work on Thanksgiving to keep us safe. This was a great activity.
We have Gingerbread Festival at the Trail Center, I have created a video to show you what has been on display. This is a tradition that has been going on here at the Mormon Trail Center for over 30 years. Enjoy the Video and get a little of the Christmas Spirit.
Christmastime at Winter Quarters is exciting. This has been a busy week with Zone Conference, Gingerbread, and many Sister Missionaries leaving the Trail Center for home, but a thought about Christmas shared at our Trail Center Training on Saturday morning we thought you would enjoy. Christmas is many things to many people — from the eager, materialistic grasping of a child for a present to the deep spiritual thankfulness of the mature heart for the gift of a Savior. If there is one common denominator, perhaps it is this: Christmas is love. Christmas is the time when the bonds of family love transcend distance and inconvenience. It is a time when love of neighbor rises above petty day-to-day irritations, and doors swing open to give and receive expressions of appreciation and affection. If to our Christmas gift list is added the gift of service — not only to friends and family, but also to those who badly need help — then our giving can be c...
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...
Windows Celestial Room facing Cemetery Another busy week here at Winter Quarters and some new things to experience. Tours are picking up with more people visiting both the Trail Center and the Tabernacle. Had tours in both places this week. We had a great experience Tuesday night. We were invited to the Mission President's home to have dinner with the 11 new missionaries (8 Elders and 3 Sisters). They arrived Monday night and on Tuesday they had dinner and a Testimony Meeting, then they got their first assignment and who they will be training with. We were invited because we just missed the last new missionary dinner. It was a very spiritual experience. Wednesday we were able to serve in the Temple when the departing Missionaries got to go before they went home the next day. Two great experiences. Also learned this week that the Pioneer Cemetery is the only Cemetery dedicated as part of the Temple Grounds. President Hinckley included it in the dedication of th...
Winter has arrived here at Winter Quarters. Snow and cold all week. We have been working hard at the Visitor centers with visitors and Gingerbread Festival. Families visiting with there children who are here at school and local children out of school made for a lot of people at the Trail Center and Tabernacle.
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