Missionary Work

Jena was excited to be wearing her "Sister Hall  Distribution Center" tag when she went to serve on Wednesday down in Centerville.  

No pictures from Thursday when she was able to wear her "Seminary and Institute" tag to Clearfield High Seminary.  It was the first day of the new semester and she was able to walk the new peer tutors over to her old classroom to pick up the students in the Adaptive class.  She was able to see two of her old aides--Julie and Trina--and learned that another one had quit because she now had "two babies."  She said walking around in the high school "made her feel old."  That made me laugh, but I assured her that it made all of us feel old when we visited our old high schools after going to college.

Friday was a nice change of pace in that we helped with a mission service project.  It was really the first thing that we have done with a group of missionaries in our mission in person (other than attend Church which isn't really too interactive.)  We had to move 100s of lamps and 10s of vacuums from a second floor apartment down to the basement storage closets.  We all wore masks and made a line and passed them from one person to another.  I was on a landing of a staircase so went up two steps, grabbed it and down and around to the next person.  It took about 1 1/2 hours but I got to know the sisters around me in a more informal way, talking through our masks.  We all commented that it was nice to do something NOT at a computer.

This is Sister Marianne Jones who is in our zone.  She and Jena have begun friends over zoom and have written letters to each other.  They got to meet in person at the service project.

This is their "social distance" photo so you can see their sweet smiles!

Lots of ways to serve in our mission.