"Full Quarantine" / "This is His Work, Not Mine"

Excited to finally get a Smartphone to share among the 4 of us!

March 23, 2020

Thursday we had a mission wide call with President and he announced a full quarantine. The only reason we were allowed to leave the pension was if we needed to buy food and that’s it. All baptismal services were canceled... 

Thankfully we are with the Pilar 1 Elders, Johnson and Parker, so we have gotten to play a lot of scum (haha) and we also invented a ping pong game that is really fun. 



Sunday we blessed and partook of the sacrament in our pension. It was super awesome, we felt the spirit. Then the assistants came by the pension (apartment) and gave us our smartphone! It is actually a super nice phone.

We received a message from the APs that we were to have a conference call with all the mission. He told us that the prophet had announced that all missionaries would be returning to their home countries due to the spreading of the coronavirus. Within a 2 to 3 week period, all of us will be boarding a plane.

Those who are already close to finishing their missions will be honorably released and all others will be reassigned to a mission in their home country. All will have to do a 14 day quarantine in their houses.

Will I be assigned to a new mission in the US? I don’t know. President said that those whose release date is in April, May, June and MAYBE July will not receive reassignments. 

It’s kind a sucky spending the last three weeks of your mission stuck in the apartment all day not doing anything. I always imagined working super crazy hard my last few weeks and doing everything I could not to think about going home, then finishing on Sunday night and thinking “wow I did it.” But, I have been called of God, this is His work, not mine, and I’ll finish it the way He sees right.

After the call with President, I knelt down to say my prayer and I just felt like the Savior was close. I just felt His love, and that if I just gave all my will to him, everything would work out.

Love you all, see ya probably in a couple of weeks