We've Been Released
Day eleven of our isolation. We are tired, but we are well. We walk at least 2 miles a day - not a lot, but it gets us out in the sunshine and gets us moving for 45 minutes or so. We go slowly for my sake because of my ankles and legs, even though to SK our pace is a walk in the park - so to speak.
We come back in, sometimes visiting with the Holgates who live in the main house upstairs. We keep our distance as we talk, and there is always plenty to talk about. They are lovely people who have had some incredible experiences. They recently got home from serving in Iraq as senior missionaries.
We got word today from the Church that all temples will be closed temporarily beginning tonight. I think we all knew this was coming, but it is a bit sobering. To be without open temples in our midst is just kind of sad, and leaves me feeling a trifle bereft. The world is changing.
I don't know how soon it will come back to anything we might consider normal, but for now, in our basement hideway, we remain ignorant of what it is really like out there. We have been so very isolated now for these days. We haven't been out much except for our solitary walks. We don't know what the stores and businesses look like. We don't know what the hospitals look like.
Ethan called this evening to say that the hospitals are at capacity right now in Gilbert and will begin turning people away. Unbelievable! How did that happen so fast? And how is that happening when the numbers we are looking at on our computer screen seem so benign? Interesting times we are living in.
President Allen Facetimed us at 7:45 and chatted with us for awhile about our mission and then extended a release. He is a sweet man. We knew this was coming.
Lauren will hopefully be on her way home soon. Paraguay has shut down, with the airports closed. The Church is hiring a plane to bring home all the missionaries in that country, who are gathering to Asuncion. She is safely in the mission home right now, which is good.
We will be patient and watch to see how all of life right now for us unfolds, and we will pray for all our leaders, young single adults, missionaries, friends and family, and especially for the many of them who are near and dear to our hearts.
We come back in, sometimes visiting with the Holgates who live in the main house upstairs. We keep our distance as we talk, and there is always plenty to talk about. They are lovely people who have had some incredible experiences. They recently got home from serving in Iraq as senior missionaries.
We got word today from the Church that all temples will be closed temporarily beginning tonight. I think we all knew this was coming, but it is a bit sobering. To be without open temples in our midst is just kind of sad, and leaves me feeling a trifle bereft. The world is changing.
I don't know how soon it will come back to anything we might consider normal, but for now, in our basement hideway, we remain ignorant of what it is really like out there. We have been so very isolated now for these days. We haven't been out much except for our solitary walks. We don't know what the stores and businesses look like. We don't know what the hospitals look like.
Ethan called this evening to say that the hospitals are at capacity right now in Gilbert and will begin turning people away. Unbelievable! How did that happen so fast? And how is that happening when the numbers we are looking at on our computer screen seem so benign? Interesting times we are living in.
President Allen Facetimed us at 7:45 and chatted with us for awhile about our mission and then extended a release. He is a sweet man. We knew this was coming.
Lauren will hopefully be on her way home soon. Paraguay has shut down, with the airports closed. The Church is hiring a plane to bring home all the missionaries in that country, who are gathering to Asuncion. She is safely in the mission home right now, which is good.
We will be patient and watch to see how all of life right now for us unfolds, and we will pray for all our leaders, young single adults, missionaries, friends and family, and especially for the many of them who are near and dear to our hearts.
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