diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 5481633389..041f7f11d7 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ Inspired from [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/)
 - Add timeout and throttle to the jenkins workflows ([#231](https://github.com/opensearch-project/opensearch-java/pull/231)) 
 - Updating maintainers, admins and documentation ([#248](https://github.com/opensearch-project/opensearch-java/pull/248))
 - Migrate client transports to Apache HttpClient / Core 5.x ([#246](https://github.com/opensearch-project/opensearch-java/pull/246))
+- Document how to use Java 8 Time (JSR 310) objects ([#251](https://github.com/opensearch-project/opensearch-java/pull/251))
 - Fixing version and build ([#254](https://github.com/opensearch-project/opensearch-java/pull/254))
 
 ### Deprecated
diff --git a/USER_GUIDE.md b/USER_GUIDE.md
index f51063052e..6cd7b04b07 100644
--- a/USER_GUIDE.md
+++ b/USER_GUIDE.md
@@ -2,9 +2,10 @@
 
 - [User Guide](#user-guide)
   - [Sample data](#sample-data)
+  - [Create a client](#create-a-client)
   - [Create an index](#create-an-index)
   - [Index data](#index-data)
-  - [Search for the document](#search-for-the-document)
+  - [Search for the document](#search-for-the-documents)
   - [Search documents using a match query](#search-documents-using-a-match-query)
   - [Aggregations](#aggregations)
   - [Delete the document](#delete-the-document)
@@ -48,6 +49,21 @@ static class IndexData {
 }
 ```
 
+## Create a client
+
+```java
+Transport transport = new RestClientTransport(restClient, new JacksonJsonpMapper()); 
+OpenSearchClient client = new OpenSearchClient(transport);
+```
+
+The `JacksonJsonpMapper` class (2.x versions) only supports Java 7 objects by default. [Java 8 modules](https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-modules-java8) to support JDK8 classes such as the Date and Time API (JSR-310), `Optional`, and more can be used by including [the additional datatype dependency](https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-modules-java8#usage) and adding the module.  For example, to include JSR-310 classes:
+
+```java
+Transport transport = new RestClientTransport(restClient,
+    new JacksonJsonpMapper(new ObjectMapper().registerModule(new JavaTimeModule()))); 
+OpenSearchClient client = new OpenSearchClient(transport);
+```
+
 ## Create an index
 
 ```java
@@ -119,4 +135,4 @@ client.delete(d -> d.index(index).id("1"));
 ```java
 DeleteIndexRequest deleteIndexRequest = new DeleteRequest.Builder().index(index).build();
 DeleteIndexResponse deleteIndexResponse = client.indices().delete(deleteIndexRequest);
-```
\ No newline at end of file
+```