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!!!