Washington, D.C. South Mission

Dear Family, The last two weeks of our mission were crazy busy because of the Corona Virus, we trained our replacements and it was transfer week the last week. Things were even busier for Mom because many of her monthly projects come due on transfer week. Friday March 6 week picked up two missionaries from the airport that were reassigned to our mission from Korea. On Monday we got notification that one of these missionaries and 7 others were “at risk” if they were to get the Corona Virus. These missionaries had asthma, were diabetics or had some other problem. We took these missionaries airport and they went home. Missionaries are not allowed to leave their apartments unless to get food. Since we have been released more changes with missionaries going home early, being sent home from foreign missions. These short term changes will cause much havoc with the work. Our replacements are Jed and Lorie Johnson from Star Valley Wyoming. They are delightful, humble and consecrat...

Dear Family, Wow, one week of March already gone and we are about worn out. We spent this last week cleaning, packing and moving to another apartment in order to get this apartment ready for our replacements. They will arrive tomorrow. Let me not get ahead of myself and go back to get the rest of the week detailed. Monday was the beginning of the week that we finally had to think about getting ready to go home. We can’t ignore it any longer. Our replacements will be here March 9, so the apartment has to be ready for them. At the office I started to get my 2016 documents shredded and my 2019 documents boxed up. I wanted to wait until after the audit to move the 2019 documents because leaving them in the file would make it so much easier to get to them for the auditor. Now that the audit is over, I can get the files ready for the new person. Garn went to help David move to his new apartment. The new apartment he moved into is still in the ward that he has been attending which i...

Dear Family, Happy Birthday to Maggie!! Where did February go? It seems like just yesterday we were looking at all of the activities for February and wondering how we would get them all done. We may not have gotten everything done, but we did get a lot of them done. Monday was the day the auditor was scheduled to come. We got to the office a little early so that I would have a chance to get a few things done before he got there because I knew it would be an all-day project. I got going and was really impressed that I was able to get so many things done by 10—probably because I didn’t look at my email. Then I got a call from the auditor saying that he had had the cold with the bad cough that has been going around. He had gone to the doctor and gotten medicine and felt that he was no longer contagious, but was just really tired and lacking in energy. He asked if he could come on Wednesday instead. I told him that President Caplin would not be able to be there at the beginning as...

Dear Family, Mission News This week we dealt with the effects of the corona virus. A few weeks ago the Church quarantined all of the missionaries in the Hong Kong Mission for two weeks. They sent them home to their families for two weeks. Then they reassigned them to other missions. Tuesday we received 2 Hong Kong missionaries. One was Cantonese speaking and he is working with the English elders. The other is Mandarin speaking and he is working with our Mandarin speaking elders. Friday night we picked up 2 elders from the Mongolia Mission. These elders needed a place to stay overnight before going to their permanent assignments in the US. It was fun to hear how different the Mongolia Mission is. They can do NO proselyting. They don’t were suits and ties. They teach English 15 to 20 hours per week. If someone on the street asks if they are missionaries they say, “No, we are English teachers.” They get some of their teaching pool from the English classes, but most of their conta...