Paul and Kay Lynn Mission

It's cold here at Winter Quarters. It's hard to imagine the pioneers here in the winter of 1846-47 some of them living in wagons and trying to keep warm. It is a Ice Box. In a journal of Brigham Young he wrote that it was -20 on Feb 2nd and they were trying to build a mill. They probably didn't know much about wind chill but at 10 mph  that would make it -34 degrees, that is cold This week we experienced a miracle with one of our friends in the Karen Group.  We have a little  Karen Lady,  Myi Kyi, who was blind. She was baptized   30th November and and shortly afterward she finally got Medicaid which she had not been able to get before. After she was able to make an appointment with the eye doctor.  This last week after surgery she was able to SEE!!! It was a special miracle that shows the Lord rewards us for doing good and being obedient as we come unto Him. She is very active and will be able now to see the things that are going on. We...

Elder White blowing the blowing snow What a whirlwind week here in Omaha. We have a new President of the Mormon Trail Center. We now have some changes, new direction, and new challenges. All the Trail Center Senior Couples are under the direction of the President and Sister Steve Johnson. They arrived on Sunday Night and have now been here a week.   The couple's going home last week made it home between snow storms. Our new couple the Bandleys made it here in the storm on Sunday. One change will be we are going to have Winter Hours at the Trail Center. We will be closing at 6:00pm starting in February and will then continue until General Conference of April 1st.This will allow Senior Couples to go to the Temple more and serve ministering in the Wards. We had another Baptism in the Karen group, another friend of Naw Htoo, Day Law Shwee. She does not speak a word of English, but said in Karen Language  felt it was good in her heart. On Sunday the confirmation was done and t...

PIONEER CEMETERY AT NIGHT This week has been crazy. We are in a week of transition, two of the Trail Center couples are going home so training on Saturday Morning was a farewell to the Elder and Sister White (not us) and to Elder and Sister Russell, the Trail Center Directors. These days are hard, but we know that we have made a friendship that will last. We have grown to love and respect these THE WHITES AND RUSSELLS couples. Our Group of Karen People is getting a little larger. We can see progression in their testimonies. It was exciting on Friday night to have 6 members of the group going to do Baptisms for the Dead. Some were baptized using Karen Family Names. It is exciting to see their testimony of the Temple and the gospel grow. Poem by Eliza R Snow. The Mormon Battalion When “Mormon” trains we’re journeying thro’ To Winter Quarters, from Nauvoo, Five TRAIL CENTER  JANUARY 2019 hundred men were called to go To settle claims wit...

Happy New Year  and Greetings from Omaha.  This is the Tropical Capital of t he Mid -West. Temperature with highs near 50 degrees, and no snow. Weather is unusual and people running around in short sleeves and even some in shorts. We had a great Gingerbread Festival over the holidays. 26,666 visitors at the trail center 2000 person increase from last year. 8649 tours at the Trail Center of which 7092 non-members or 82%. With the number at the Tabernacle made the total visitors 31416 that is about opposite in July where 5 to 7% non-members. A great missionary effort. How long would it take a missionary to have visited 7092 people? We were able to have a great New Year’s party at the Trail Center and then with the other senior couples. All party poops in going to bed before midnight. We all had work the next day. Enjoy the couples we serve with. They are great and all love to serve. I was reading about Brigham Young and ran across this quote about the people of F...

Dec 24- Dec 30th Christmas week was exciting, having time to talk with our children and grandchildren on the phone. We even talked with our grandson in Ecuador!  Busy with Gingerbread and giving more and more tours.:)   Christmas day evening we were able, with other Senior Missionaries, to serve dinner to over 400 individuals at a homeless shelter in Omaha.  It was a great opportunity to get a couple of referrals to send missionaries to meet with some gentlemen. It is so wonderful to serve others and see the smiles and receive their thanks, “ this is the best meal I've had all year”! Two thoughts on this coming year: Goals are important and here is a quote from President Ezra Taft Benson on personal growth through goal-setting. President Ezra Taft Benson (1899-1994) was called to the Quorum of Twelve Apostles in 1943, and served as the 13th President of the Church from 1985 until his death in 1994 at age 94. "Every accountable child of God needs to...