The Lord of the Ring

On March 24, 2020, Elder Dunn gave a devotional message for LDS Business College. Due to the Coronavirus, the devotional was given to a virtual audience.
Check it out here:

What is your COVID-19 Mantra?

COVID-19

Try This at Home: Choose a COVID-19 Mantra.

We love mantras. Each year, we choose a mantra for the year, as we discuss in episodes 57 and 59, and we also might choose one-word or one-phrase themes for the year, as we discuss in episodes 26, 151, 201, 208, 254…we love this exercise.

We’re now doing daily Instagram Live "Coping with COVID-19 Conversations" Mon-Fri at 4 pm ET. (If you miss one, you can watch the replay for up to 24 hours. Follow me on Instagram—I'm @gretchenrubin—and click on my profile image to join once we’ve started.)

In one of those conversations, we started talking about our COVID-19 mantra, and we continue that conversation here.

Elizabeth's mantras: "Closer, Stronger, Lighter" and "If not now, when."

My mantra: "Put down the clipboard." I mention being an Upholder in my "Four Tendencies" personality framework. If you want to know if you're an Upholder, Questioner, Obliger, or Rebel, you can take the free, quick quiz here.

A listener wrote us that her mantra is "Don’t treat a gift like a burden,” an idea that we've discussed before.

On Happier in Hollywood episode 153, Elizabeth and Sarah also talked about COVID-19 mantras.

Coronavirus connections

March 2020
We send our love to all of our beloved missionaries. We are concerned about the health and safety of all our SAJM returned missionaries across the globe. This s one situation that we are all involved in, no matter where we live.

We have the world in our prayers and feel blessed to rely on our faith to comfort us and prompt us to the right actions during this time of quarantines and lock downs.
We were blessed to have a chance to have South African visitors in the month of February and March.

WE will add pictures here on Lynne and Tyler Van der Hoven, visiting from Centurion, South Africa.  We had them with us for a week and the time flew by.

Later in March, Andy and Charnell de Kock visited and we had the pleasure of having Corbin, Nate and Andy and Charnell enjoy an evening and dinner with us.

Pictures coming.