MaeLyn's Musings

This last week has been supercalifragilisticexpialidocious in the extreme. Sunday 7-8pm: We received the following email from both Hannah and John's mission presidents: March 22, 2020 In accordance with the latest announcements issued by the First Presidency with temporary adjustments made to missionary work and in response to the rapid increase of travel advisories and restrictions emerging around the world, the following steps are being taken in regards to foreign missionaries serving in Brazil: All missionaries returning to the United States and Canada who have more than 180 days left to complete their mission will be temporarily reassigned after their arrival. Missionaries who have less than 180 days left on their mission will be released. All sister missionaries returning to the United States and Canada who have less than 90 days left to complete their mission should be released. Sister missionaries who have more than 90 days left on their mission will be temporarily reassi...

I'm feeling the need to write, to document my thoughts and feelings right now, but it is hard to figure out exactly what those feeling are. Things have changed so fast that my thoughts are still whirling. There are so many things I feel like I need to figure out, and I don't know what to do. Two weeks ago, who would have guessed that I would be preparing for both my missionary children to be returning home? We received word Sunday night that missionaries from the US currently serving in Brazil will be returned to their home country. Those who are within 180 days of their release date (Hannah) will return home and be released. Those with more than 180 days left (John) will return home for two weeks quarantine, after which they will be temporarily reassigned to a mission in the US. Hopefully that means that he will be able to return to Brazil once the corona virus threat has passed. It will pass, right? We've been given instructions for the returning missionaries' qua...

I find that when I'm writing letters to the kids each week to let them know what's going on, it is harder for me to blog for some reason... maybe because I'm writing it, I don't feel the need to write it again. So here I copy and paste the last month of letters to them for you: Feb 16, 2020: Travel Plans, Sickness, Jury Duty and a hamster Dear Hannah and John, Hello! How are you? Hannah - we got your travel plans this week!!! You leave Brazil on April 28th and arrive here mid morning on the 29th. We have an appointment with Pres. Moon that evening at 6:30pm for your official release. You get to speak in our ward on Mother's Day. Of course, this doesn't mean you can get trunky or anything. You still have 72 days to go - so make the best of them! Also, after having only elders in the ward for the last several months, we got sister missionaries this past week. Hopefully we'll still have sister missionaries in the ward when you return so you can go out with ...