We try to fill our time with worthwhile home activities and it is interesting how we still do not seem to have enough time to get everything done. We try to phone people that we feel might need to talk to someone or that we want to check on. Many people are somewhat surprised that we are home but not entirely as the world population has been admonished to return to their homelands. We keep in touch with the children via FaceTime, phone and messaging. I helped Keaton and Breya make cinnamon rolls this week with the aid of technology and they were delicious so we were told. We have offered to help with the children’s home schooling. Tom has completed a couple of jigsaw puzzles, we walk, clean, do things in and around the house that need doing and we have been going through Grandpa Tanners pictures and papers that Tom has stewardship of in an attempt to organize them. He would like to select somethings to put in an online file so others family members can have access to them. This is a monumental task and a bit daunting for Tom. The things are spread all over our basement while being sorted. We have filled out an historical documentation of our mission and our experience with the evacuation for church history as requested by the church and we have submitted it back to them. That took a lengthy period of time.
The highlight of our week was General Conference. It had been greatly anticipated especially with the life changes the covid virus has made for not only us but for our leaders. President Nelson had told us that we would be commemorating the 200th anniversary of Joseph Smith’s First Vision and it would be a memorable conference unlike any other that we have ever experienced. Who knew what our situation would be at this time? No members were to come to conference due to the virus and leaders met in a room in the Conference Center with only those speaking in attendance and sitting required distances apart. The Tabernacle Choir music was taken from precious recordings and was beautiful. Everyone - EVERYONE was watching or listening from their homes. Alone but altogether. We were presented with the new church logo being the “Christus”, a new Proclamation on the Restoration, given comforting and encouraging words and requested to participate in church wide fast on Good Friday for relief from the effects of the virus. We also had the announcement of eight new Temples. One in Shanghai! I messaged Jean our neighbour right away and she had heard the news and was elated . They are from Shanghai and Wayne, her husband, is still working there but due the virus during this time he is here with his family. Wonderful conference! Wonderful spirit!
General Conference April 2020
Tom’s Puzzle Making
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