Church at Home

All church meetings and activities were cancelled. 

So now we have church at home. The first Sunday Grandpa and Grandma Nunn came over and we enjoyed a spiritual meeting together. The next Sunday we invited Les and Sarah and their families to join us on zoom. Then Grandma LaDelphia Nunn whispered to Austin one Sunday morning - you haven't kept my grandkids together. Fix it. So Austin started Nunn zoom church with Buck's siblings - we worship with them twice a month. 

Not many of his cousins are active in the church and wanted to join church, so Austin planned a cousin evening zoom just to visit. Almost all of the cousins joined and visited for a couple hours. It was awesome.

I suggested having church with my siblings also. We have Waite church once a month. First, we had it on Easter, then Mother's Day, Father's Day, pre-Pioneer Day, etc. 

Meeting over zoom is not as good as meeting in person, but we are thankful for the technology that we can still gather and share our thoughts and learn together.

We have also had Karma and Steve Albiston, our adopted grandparents in Logan, join us each week. Dixie Bevans has also come over each week to be with us.  Jill and Hanna would often join us, too, from wherever they were.

On the second zoom Sunday, Martha insisted that we come to have it in her basement because there is so much more room. Well, guess what, the sound in their basement is terrible. No one could hear us speak unless we moved right to the computer.

Our stake presidency decided we would have the Sacrament the first and third Sunday each month in our homes. The First Presidency authorized us to have it in our homes under the guidelines of our local leaders. Our leaders decided not to have it every Sunday, since every home doesn't have Priesthood available, and so it just makes it more possible for the ministering brothers to go into those homes twice a month, plus limit the contact of going in other's homes to not spread any viruses. 

Our prophet had prepared us for at-home church. We had recently started two hour church with an emphasis on studying Come, Follow Me with assigned chapters from the scriptures each week at home. We have also been adapting our ministering to more flexible options, so that we can check on each other without the traditional monthly home visits.

Zoom church is entertaining in its own way. We get to watch Katie Nunn dance on the little table

in her living room or crawl across the back of her couch like a lion. She is also the very best chorister to lead the music. We were able to get to know Austin's aunts and uncles so much better. There were also times someone would be in the middle of a prayer and someone's music would start. 

I am the second counselor in Relief Society right now, so I organized it so we could still have Relief Society lessons twice a month. The first couple months we did them on zoom on Sunday afternoon. We had 25 to 40 women join each week. Then when it got warmer we had our lessons outside in someone's yard. That is my favorite. What could be better than having a lesson outside. The Young Women also met at the same time in the same yard. It was so nice to see people again.

Austin organized our stake to have online missionary broadcasts once a month for the missionaries who are coming and going to speak. Austin plans and conducts those meetings and then wipes down the podium and microphone in between each speaker. We have loved being able to hear all of those kids speak too.

The Young Single Adult Ward in Cardston starting meeting in person in the summer, so Hanna would go with Madison Barfuss and Madison Leishman, and then Madison Barfuss left on her mission, and then a few weeks later Madison Leishman left. They would just wear masks until they were seated and then they could take them off.