Quarantine

This week it seems like we were continuing to learn more information every single day about how the corona virus would affect the mission, so it was pretty insane!

Tuesday we weren't in quarantine (yet) but we weren't allowed to knock doors, and the campus was closed, and we were pretty much in quarantine without actually being in it. Elder Anderson and I were planning a training that day for this week because we were having our zone conferences that we had to make smaller groups of 2 districts because we weren't allowed to do entire zones. So Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, we were traveling around the mission going to these meetings and giving a lot of Trainings which was super awesome.

Each day however they kept making it harder and harder for us to do these meetings! The first day we had a super cool program where we were able to meet together, and this seminary teacher in one of the wards came and taught, the 2nd day they said no more seminary teacher is allowed to come teach, and the 3rd day they said we couldn't meet in two districts any more, just one, so we had to split it up. Now we've still only hit half the mission and given our training like 10 times, and they won't even let us meet up as one district anymore! So I guess the rest will just have to be over technology.

So now we're quarantined officially, I'm happy we were at least able to go see half the mission. We stay in the apartment and do video lessons as much as we can, and then basically call everyone like 1000000 times, and then have legendarily long studies and planning sessions. It's been pretty crazy!

On Sunday we did come follow me as a YSA ward and we got to teach it! Pretty legendary having a lesson on Jacob 5-7. We did have this one girl named Natalie who we've been teaching over video just about every single day and she joined for the church lesson and was probably super confused haha. There isn't really the same fellowship with church over video as there is in person, but the members have been super down to join in tons of lessons! It's been super awesome!

Something really sad I learned this week is I'll have to return home 3 months early in May due to all the missions closing down around the world. I'm really bummed, but at least I'll have been able to serve 21 months and have many life changing experiences I'll never forget and am really grateful for. Stinking corona. :( 

Anyways there is going to be some huge changes in the mission with lots of missionaries going home and lots of missionaries from foreign missions coming out. It's going to be wild!!

Elder Jensen