14 March 2021
Our second week of remote mission service (serving from home
until we can get to Peru) has provided us with plenty of learning and growth opportunities,
as well as related learning struggles – more than we ever imagined. LeAnn loves the learning. Lane says he’s feeling his age in not being
able to keep up!
The big news for this week was that we were able to get our 1st Covid vaccination (Pfizer). Hopefully this will get us closer to going to Peru. We’re scheduled for the second dose March 30.
It was also good to hear this week that Lima opened up just a
little bit, relative to the Covid quarantine they’ve been having, and is now
allowing 20% in-person church attendance.
Every day this week we virtually video met, via Zoom, with the elders responsible for running
the mission office. They patiently walk
us through their different responsibilities and how they accomplish their tasks. The Zoom meetings usually last about 2-3
hours each day. Then after the Zoom meetings,
we spend another couple of hours reviewing together ourselves (without the office
elders) what we learned, including many new Spanish words, in an effort to better
understand what the elders showed us. And finally, we have our individual
assignments and language study.
Since our training sessions with the office elders are almost entirely incomprehensible to LeAnn (I pick up a word or two here and there), she is especially excited to inject her “good-bye” in Spanish at the end of each call. However, on Thursday when we were finishing up our Zoom call, LeAnn blurted out, “¡Hola!” instead of “¡Adios!” (Insert eye roll…even Lane had a good laugh!)
Sunday we were able to “Zoom” into Lane’s brother’s (Craig’s) ward
in Spokane to hear him, his wife (Nicole), and our nephew (Rylan) speak in
their sacrament meeting. Rylan has been called to serve in the Santiago Chile
mission and will be starting his remote MTC training soon. Hearing them speak
about the Plan of Salvation was inspiring.
We love this scripture reminder:
“For behold, this life is the time for men to prepare to meet
God; yea, behold the day of this life is the day for men to perform their labors.”
~Alma 34:32
¡Tengan una buena semana! (Have a
great week!)
Love,
Lane & LeAnn
