Elder Davis in Ohio

Hey, everyone. This week's quote is from The Grinch (the Jim Carrey one), at the request of Elder Henshaw. That's his favorite movie. Well, Elder Henshaw is now gone. Gone from Cambridge, anyway. Transfers were held a couple of days early this time. They were supposed to be Wednesday, but we had missionaries coming in from other countries, or rather from assignments in other countries. I guess they came home to their families from foreign missions about two weeks ago, self-isolated, and are now being reassigned to our mission. There were 5 coming our way from Korea. Anyway, that's the reason transfers were moved up, or so we were told. So now Elder Henshaw is with Elder Klinkowski (one of my former zone leaders, from when I was in Riverside) in New Albany. The two of them will be flying home on Friday, along with a bunch of other missionaries, including Elder Neddo, my companion during my second transfer in Chillicothe. Elder Anderson, my greeniebreaker, is home now, t...

Hey, everyone, This week's quote is from Gandalf the White (played by Sir Ian McKellen) in  The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers . It's been an interesting week. So the day after I sent out my weekly last week we were told we needed to start self-isolating, meaning we needed to stay in the apartment as much as possible (with the exception of trips to the grocery store for essentials and so forth and getting out for some fresh air. But we definitely weren't supposed to visit people, and we definitely weren't supposed to go out and contact people. So we've been in our apartments most of the time since then. At the time, that felt like a relief. I've felt like I've been behind on my sleep basically since I entered the mission field, so I took the opportunity to take a few naps and try to get caught up that way. It was also an indication that this was being taken pretty seriously. But I've learned a lot over those past 6 days. It simult...