Apparently on Thursday morning our daughter who is the primary contact for us on our mission papers received an email from a mission president in Frankfurt Germany that we would be coming home and would need to be in self-isolatation for 14 days and then we would be released from missionary service. Our bishop and stake president had also been contacted with the same information. This information was coming from sources other than our direct priesthood leader (Europe Area Presidency), causing some "head scratching" and a little confusion at home. With a few phone calls and emails, we were able to sort things out and let everyone know we were healthy, safe and in good spirits. Our leaders let us know that all the senior missionaries in Frankfurt were being sent home due to the worldwide pandemic. We were asked to maintain a 14-day isolation person before traveling home.
At present we are in Raymond, Canada with our daughter and her family. We will remain here till our 14 days of self-isolation is over and then fly from Calgary, Canada to Salt Lake City, Utah. We will return to our home in Sandy, Utah where we will work remotely with the Area Office in Frankfurt, Germany. We will not be released from our missionary service. Our release date is not until July 2020. Several of the missionary couples we support in Europe have been temporarily sent home. There are still 5 couples remaining in the countries of Hungary, Romania, Bosnia, Serbia, and Montenegro. Some of the missionary couples who have gone home will also continue their service and work remotely.
All of the senior missionary couples working in the Frankfurt Area Office have been returned to their homes indefinitely. With the requirement to leave Frankfurt quickly, the senior missionaries packed their belongings and prepared to leave. Meanwhile we were here in Canada and unable to pack our belongings still in our Frankfurt apartment. Thankfully our missionary friends went over to our apartment and packed our possessions. The church will ship our bags home. We are yet to learn where or when, but we know that the Lord is in the details of our lives. We feel confident if we had not left when we did, we would not have been able to attend our grandson's baptism. We will follow the counsel of our prophet and know that all things will work out.
Watch this message of Hope from President Russell M. Nelson -
https://www.facebook.com/russell.m.nelson/videos/199840471336927/
It will be interesting to see what the future holds for us - but as for us and our house we will serve the Lord.
"In the coming days, it will not be possible to survive spiritually without the guiding, directing, comforting and constant influence of the Holy Ghost." Russell M. Nelson, April 2018 General "Conference, Revelation for the Church, Revelation for Our Lives."
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