The One-Year Anniversary of the Two-Week Quarantine in the great Michigan Lansing Mission
Dear Family and Friends, Today marks the one-year anniversary of the two-week quarantine in the mission. The missionaries were told to go get a two-week supply of groceries and to stop all in-person contact. Remember when we hoped and thought the COVID crisis would last for a couple of weeks? Since then, it has been a journey for all. The journey for the missionaries has been complex. Some left countries and people they loved with little to no information about what was ahead. Some found out they would not be able to continue missionary service due to underlying health conditions that put them at greater risk. Some stayed put with instructions on what they could and could not do changing daily. Some struggled greatly with the isolation and the toll it takes on mental health. The blessings were there amid the struggles. Missionaries discovered how to do missionary work in ways either not done or underutilized prior to the pandemic, especially in learning to use technology and socia...