Paul and Kay Lynn Mission

We survived the Omaha Blizzard of 2019. What a weekend with about 12” of snow and wind of 35 to 40 miles per hour. It all came from 3:00pm on Saturday until  2:00 am in Sunday. Good thing it was Stake Conference. Our Saturday night meeting was postponed until 4:00 Sunday, and the regular session was at 10:00 am. We had to pick up two sisters to get them to the morning meeting, left an hour early. We got to their home and had to walk a half a block through the snow drifts to get them. Arrived at the church 5 minutes before the meeting. Just to let you know the church is 10 minutes from our apartment. The travel to the 4:00 meeting was even worse. People who think that they can travel in 4 Wheel drive in the snow need a lesson.  They try to run into the snowbanks. They speed as fast as they can and then get turned around going the wrong direction. It's a joke! Weathermen say it will be until Friday before all roads are cleared. It is still cold and no melting is taki...

What a busy week.  not at work, but just in general.  it is Valentine week and Sister White was busy making Valentines for all the Sister Missionaries, Senior Couples, and others in our apartment complex. I love cookies and other treats.  We spent most of the week at the Kanesville Tabernacle, and I do not know how that happened because I am the one who made the schedule, figure that out. Elder White and Elder Holt were invited to the Daddy Daughter Party in the ward. We had three Karen girls as our partners.  It was fun I have a couple of pictures. Snow is deep here, about 8" on Sunday made it hard to get to church, some Sacrament Meetings canceled for two weeks now because of Sunday Storms. Big changes are coming to our assignment. More details next week Living Prophets are More Important Than All the Books of Scripture Wilford Woodruff (President) I will refer to a certain meeting I attended in the town of Kirtland in my early days. At that meetin...

Weeks go by so fast, you get the schedule and look at what needs to be done, and then before you know it it's Friday. We are having a great mission. The work moves forward and lives change.   We have been here one year and we have seen a lot of change. Some of the people we came out with have gone home and new friends have come. We have extended our mission until Dec. 15, 2019. We love it here . Some pictures this week of the Trail Center. The Bookends "Today, facing west, on the high bluff overlooking the city of Nauvoo, thence across the Mississippi, and over the plains of Iowa, there stands Joseph’s temple, a magnificent house of God. Here in the Salt Lake Valley, facing east to that beautiful temple in Nauvoo, stands Brigham’s temple, the Salt Lake Temple. They look toward one another as bookends between which there are volumes that speak of the suffering, the sorrow, the sacrifice, even the deaths of thousands who made the long journey from the Mississ...

Jan 28 -Feb 3rd We look at the lives of the Pioneers everyday here in the Mormon Trail Center, and then we wonder how they were able to survive in this weather. On Wednesday the temperature dipped to -24 degrees and on Saturday it was 51 degrees. What a incredible swing. How did those 1846-47 Saints survive, some still in Wagons? WINTER QUARTERS “I went through the city-where nine weeks ago there was not a footpath, or a cow track, now may be seen hundreds of houses and hundreds in different stages of completion-impossible to distinguish the rich from the poor. The streets are wide and regular and every prospect of a large city being raised up here.”(1) With husbands and brothers gone in the Mormon Battalion or off in Missouri on trading or working trips, there would be a glaring absence. A census taken at the end of 1846 revealed a population of 3,483, only 500 of them men. Many thousands more were spread from Council Bluffs eastward across Iowa. Those men who were l...