3/30/2020
Date
April 1, 2020
Area
Pontypridd, Wales
Companion
Elder Farar
3/30/2020
24/03/20
Crazy day today. We had zone conference over zoom and President Hughes gave us some partial reassurance that we'll be staying. I'm super relieved. Before that I had accepted the fact that I was returning home and was super depressed about it. If anything this experience of not knowing whether or not I'm leaving or staying has reaffirmed my love for this place and these people. I wouldn't want to be anywhere else in the world.🏴🏴🇬🇧
25/03/20
Pretty boring day today. We've been told to do an hour and a half of excercise a day so for the first hour and a half of the morning I was on and off the tredmil and lifting some of the lose weights we have around the flat. It wrecked me. I need to get back in the habit of working out every day. The rest of the day was good. We reached out to a few people we helped during the flood clean up to see how their doing and we got a myriad of different responses. This one guy named Steve offered us one of his Netflix slots and a hard drive full of movies...And the Mandalorian. That was super hard to turn down. We also reached out to the old woman who lost her husband. She's been having a hard time self isolating since she's on her own now and living in a new rented flat that doesn't have any internet. We're going to buy grocieries for her in a few days so that she doesn't have to go outside. It's been really hard to cope knowing that so many people that we helped don't have a place to self isolate.
27/03/20
Pretty typical isolation day. Trying our best to maintain our sanity. We've been getting updates and videos sent to us by the area presidency and the first presidency so that's been crazy. As of now only 50 European missions and Taiwan will maintain their foreign missionaries. We've been greatly encouraged to read D&C 121-123 by President Hughes, the area president, and President Uchdorf. We've been teaching a good amount as well. The pandemic has gotten people to ask a lot of spiritual questions and as a result we've been reaching out to a ton of people and teaching via Facebook Messenger.
28/03/20
One thing I have learned in this experience is the importance of figuratively stretching yourself at least once a day. When you just sort of lay around and don't do anything that tests your limits or stimulates you mentally you end the day feeling lazy and with a sense of worthlessness. I've been able to cope a lot better because I set a goal every day to do something that I don't exactly want to do but I know will push me to be better tomorrow.
29/03/20
With all that's going on in the world right now it's easy to see why so many people are scared right now. However, personally I don't think I've ever felt so comforted on my mission. My testimony that we have a prophet on the earth today has been forever expanded. He warned us that times like this were coming, why should we fear?
Brendan wrote this later in the day on Monday, and he wanted me to add this to his letter:
With being inside pretty much all day I have had a lot of time to ponder. And one random thing that I've been pondering recently are New Years Resolutions. Why? I was thinking about how this is my full "calender year" as a missionary and reviewing the goals I had set for this unique year in my life. After a lot of reviewing and pondering these goals that I had set for myself I promptly tore them out of my study journal and threw them in the bin. I had come to understand that I had become too focused on the outcome of my actions and not as invested in the process. What I found is that my desired outcomes were often completely out of my control and were largely based on the decisions and opinions of others, and I vividly remember quoting in my "Mission Manifesto" which I made close to the start of my mission that I am the captain of my own fate and master of my own soul (aside from God of course). I have decided to be more devoted to the process instead of the outcome. This relates to the concept of New Years Resolutions in the way that we set these goals for ourselves at the start of a New Year and look at that year as sort of a fresh start. That paradigm is also going in the bin. For the longest time I have quoted the latin phrase Carpe Diem (which translates into seize the day) and it's about time I put that principle into action. Instead the insane, as to the literial definition of the word, manor in which most of us make New Years resolutions, I am going to train my mind into looking at every day as that "fresh start" so many desire at the beginning of a New Year. But with that said, I am not against setting goals. What I am against is consuming my mind with where I want to be instead of focusing on the daily things I need to do to get there. I will be reporting on how it goes.
Crazy day today. We had zone conference over zoom and President Hughes gave us some partial reassurance that we'll be staying. I'm super relieved. Before that I had accepted the fact that I was returning home and was super depressed about it. If anything this experience of not knowing whether or not I'm leaving or staying has reaffirmed my love for this place and these people. I wouldn't want to be anywhere else in the world.🏴🏴🇬🇧
25/03/20
Pretty boring day today. We've been told to do an hour and a half of excercise a day so for the first hour and a half of the morning I was on and off the tredmil and lifting some of the lose weights we have around the flat. It wrecked me. I need to get back in the habit of working out every day. The rest of the day was good. We reached out to a few people we helped during the flood clean up to see how their doing and we got a myriad of different responses. This one guy named Steve offered us one of his Netflix slots and a hard drive full of movies...And the Mandalorian. That was super hard to turn down. We also reached out to the old woman who lost her husband. She's been having a hard time self isolating since she's on her own now and living in a new rented flat that doesn't have any internet. We're going to buy grocieries for her in a few days so that she doesn't have to go outside. It's been really hard to cope knowing that so many people that we helped don't have a place to self isolate.
27/03/20
Pretty typical isolation day. Trying our best to maintain our sanity. We've been getting updates and videos sent to us by the area presidency and the first presidency so that's been crazy. As of now only 50 European missions and Taiwan will maintain their foreign missionaries. We've been greatly encouraged to read D&C 121-123 by President Hughes, the area president, and President Uchdorf. We've been teaching a good amount as well. The pandemic has gotten people to ask a lot of spiritual questions and as a result we've been reaching out to a ton of people and teaching via Facebook Messenger.
28/03/20
One thing I have learned in this experience is the importance of figuratively stretching yourself at least once a day. When you just sort of lay around and don't do anything that tests your limits or stimulates you mentally you end the day feeling lazy and with a sense of worthlessness. I've been able to cope a lot better because I set a goal every day to do something that I don't exactly want to do but I know will push me to be better tomorrow.
29/03/20
With all that's going on in the world right now it's easy to see why so many people are scared right now. However, personally I don't think I've ever felt so comforted on my mission. My testimony that we have a prophet on the earth today has been forever expanded. He warned us that times like this were coming, why should we fear?
Brendan wrote this later in the day on Monday, and he wanted me to add this to his letter:
With being inside pretty much all day I have had a lot of time to ponder. And one random thing that I've been pondering recently are New Years Resolutions. Why? I was thinking about how this is my full "calender year" as a missionary and reviewing the goals I had set for this unique year in my life. After a lot of reviewing and pondering these goals that I had set for myself I promptly tore them out of my study journal and threw them in the bin. I had come to understand that I had become too focused on the outcome of my actions and not as invested in the process. What I found is that my desired outcomes were often completely out of my control and were largely based on the decisions and opinions of others, and I vividly remember quoting in my "Mission Manifesto" which I made close to the start of my mission that I am the captain of my own fate and master of my own soul (aside from God of course). I have decided to be more devoted to the process instead of the outcome. This relates to the concept of New Years Resolutions in the way that we set these goals for ourselves at the start of a New Year and look at that year as sort of a fresh start. That paradigm is also going in the bin. For the longest time I have quoted the latin phrase Carpe Diem (which translates into seize the day) and it's about time I put that principle into action. Instead the insane, as to the literial definition of the word, manor in which most of us make New Years resolutions, I am going to train my mind into looking at every day as that "fresh start" so many desire at the beginning of a New Year. But with that said, I am not against setting goals. What I am against is consuming my mind with where I want to be instead of focusing on the daily things I need to do to get there. I will be reporting on how it goes.
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