Dec 31 - Jan 6



Happy New Year  and Greetings from Omaha.  This is the Tropical Capital of the 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 Farmington Utah.  
When Brigham came to Farmington to organize the Davis Stake he said.
I esteem it a privilege to meet with the Latter-day Saints. I have visited Farmington many times, and I can say that, as a general thing in attending your meetings, I have felt much of the peace and blessings that flow from heaven to this people.

I have no doubt that the majority of the people called Latter-day Saints desire really to be Saints; were it not for this I might feel partially discouraged. The people who are honest, who are seeking to know and to understand the truth, they are the ones who, so far as their faith and good works, and their influence and ability are concerned, sustain the kingdom that God has commenced to establish on the earth.
Discourse by President Brigham Young, delivered at a Special Conference Held at Farmington, for the Purpose of Organizing a Stake of Zion for the County of Davis, on Sunday Afternoon, June 17, 1877.
Reported By: Geo. F. Gibbs.

I believe the it's still true, we love the people in Farmington and believe there is a peace there.

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