Winter Quarters Nebraska LDS (Mormon) Temple Photographs

Winter Quarters Nebraska LDS (Mormon) Temple Photographs

The Winter Quarters Temple (HD) - Mormon Temples

Missionaries in October

Life is going well! We are working everyday and loving it. Our Preparation Day is tomorrow and this is our schedule: District Meeting at 10:30 to 1:00, Temple Prep Class 2:30 to 4:00, Feed Missionaries at 6:00, Team Teach till 9:30! It will be a good day, but what about the laundry and grocery shopping! That's OK, it will get done!
We had an interesting day at the Tabernacle yesterday. We got there before 10:00 (when it opens) and there were already people waiting for us, they did not know about the winter schedule and had been there since 9:30. I just got them in the theater, and here came a family of four, took them on a tour and got them in the theater and the others over to the Tabernacle, and here came two non-members - they asked many questions which I was able to answer (thank goodness)! They had a wonderful spirit about them and really were interested in the church but only for learning its origin. Who knows, seeds planted sometimes sprout after much thinking! Then a family from Canada came in, they were great, so sweet. New Zealanders came next along with a girl that was hearing impaired - a very interesting day!
We are loving our mission and we sure love all of you. Thank you for all your blog updates and all the wonderful pictures. I will try pictures again when I have time to think about how to do it. Brent told me and I wrote it all down, but I havn't tried it yet! We have some great pictures!!!
Til next time - Love you, Mom and Dad

Nebraska Omaha Winter Quarters Mission - 3 wkks in

We are here, we are settled in, and we are lovin life. We work five days a week at either the Mormon Trail Center or the Kanesville Tabernacle and Visitors Center. We enjoy both! At the Tabernacle I give the tours at the Visitors Center about the treck across Iowa and settleing in at Concil Bluffs and Winter Quarters and the Mormon Battalion, then Elder Mangum gives the tour thru the Tabernacle itself. It is an amazing building with a impressive history (where Brigham Young was sustained as the second president of the Church). The rest of the days are spent at the Trail Center. There I sit at the front desk, count the visitors, keep a log, greet and talk with visitors when they wish, and answer the phone. We are taking quilts for a quilt exhibit to start next week and I have to sign the quilts in and make sure everything is properly marked. Elder Mangum keeps order, takes tours of adult males that are alone, supervises the downstairs activities, opens up and close - his duties are many. On Fridays or day starts at 8:30am and goes till 9:30pm. We work in the temple from 8:30 to 1:30, have a quick lunch then go to the trail center and work there til 9:00pm, a long day but very rewarding. We get up early, try our best to be in bed by 10:30, sometimes we make it! We will also work at the temple on the third Saturday every month for a Spanish Speaking Session - I'm not sure if I work or not, we will see. We are in the Conastoga Branch (Small but with a big heart). We will be helping the missionaries with the less actives and we will have calling in the Branch. Elder Mangum is the Gospel Essentials Teacher, and he and I will both teach the Temple Prep Class, we taught that in Leesville for many years!!! I have not gotten a calling in the Branch yet but it will come.
What is the hardest thing about our mission? Calling my husband Elder Mangum - hence I am practicing here! What is the greatest thing about our mission - It's all great, the Spirit is here in abundance, the Sisters and Elders are wonderful to work with, the work we do is important to those that visit, and we are in the service of our God. What more can we ask!!!

Preparing

July 8, 2010
The house and yard are looking good, the shop storage room is just about finished, the packing has begun. We will be set apart as Missionaries on July 13 at the Stake Center in Alexandria. We will be leaving for Utah on July 23 driving the truck so Mark can keep it while we are away; will spend a week with Mark and family, we will also visit some good friends in Utah while we are there. Dorothy Waddell is one of the people we will see, she and her family brought me into the church. Then on Aug 2 we will enter the MTC, I guess that is the point of no return! W leave the MTC on Aug 12 and fly back to Alexandria, pack the car and head for Nebraska. We are excited, we are aprehensive, we are happy, and we are sad (to leave our children and grandchildren for the next 18 months is going to be hard). However, this is what we have always wanted to do, it is time, and we are going! It will be great!

Much has happened since I last wrote! The best of the best retirement parties was put on for Carl and I by Dr. Meadaa and our children --- all ten of them and all of the grandchildren! It was exquisit, wonderful, awesome, supercalafragilasticexpealadochs! There are no words to express our gratitude! All "MY GIRLS and their spouses (from work) were there - so special; and they did all the cooking! Many friends were there, Jan and Jasper were there, many nice words were said, many tears were shed, and a family picture happened. You can't really beat that weekend, I don't think it can be done - physically impossible!
Now three weeks later we are awaiting our mission call any day - so exciting - the place doesn't really matter, but the arrival date is MUCHO IMPORTANTE! Are we going to get all our house ready in time! We are working hard, but there is so much to do! Time will tell its story and we will leave done or not!
I am nervous, I am excited, I am happy, I am sad, I am anxious, I am stressed, the list goes on, but one thing is for certain --- we will go!
Until next time! We love you!

All the interviews are done! The mission papers are in Salt Lake - now we wait! Should be in about three or four weeks! I am nervous!!! Thanks to everyone who has been such a support!