Changing times in missionary work! It is virtually incredible!

April 2020

Yes, things do change in missionary work. Preach My Gospel was one of the biggest changes! The age change was another. Now, because of COVID-19, all missionaries are in isolation and doing all of their work on the phones or via social media.

Sunday Worship Services are held in most of the wards now.

Sister Killian- serving in the Hemet Stake, Diamond Valley  Ward giving a talk for a Sunday Worship Service

Social media training for the whole mission.

A couple of weeks ago, we received social media training from the Missionary Department. We selected three companions, added in two technology missionaries, the Assistants, and us, and now we have a Social Media Council. They are phenomenal!

All of our meetings are virtual through one or more video conferencing programs. All of my interviews ever six weeks are now via the phone or video conferencing. While not being face to face, it has been surprising effective. The Spirit has been strong in all of the meetings and interviews.

March Multi Zone Conference

Assistance to the President. Elders Chase and Abraham 

Friday April 10, 2020 District Leader Training meeting

We have missed  seeing our missionaries so much. We wanted to connect with them so we scheduled a morning devotional on Thursday mornings. They have been so great. The spirit is strong and we are able to worship and learn from each other.

 We have had messages from President Hanesn, President Hammon, and Elder and Sister Hunt Thursday morning devotional.

President Hansen

We also have a Mission Sunday afternoon devotional/worship service. Sister Hammon and I have had some powerful experiences doing these. One of our sister missionaries has been assigned to coordinate the music, she had done a spectacular job of gathering musical numbers from missionaries and sending them to us so that we can download them into the conference call.

April 28, 2020
This transfer we only received one sister missionary. After four weeks in the field we have a follow-up training. This was our first one by video conferencing. It was very spirit led and fun to have basically a one on one training with these two Hermanas.

Hermanas Reeder and Anderson

Role plays are always a fun and insightful part of every training.

We have pre-recorded special musical number for each devotional or worship service. We have incredibly talented missionaries.

Hermana Longshore and Elder Rowe

We even have "guest" musical numbers. This is one Louise ZoBell, a person from Sterling, Canada, who met in the Dominican Republic when we were serving our mission there.

President and Sister Hammon