MARCH MADNESS
MARCH MADNESS Who would have thought that the March blog would be written from home! We still had two and a half months left in Iceland! On Thursday, 12 March, we were called by the mission and told to be ready to leave as early as the next day. We notified the archive and started finishing up our work. We went home mid-day to start packing and then returned to the archive to get everything in order and to say goodbye to the staff. All the senior missionaries in Europe (and now other parts of the world) were sent home because of the coronavirus. Iceland was getting a lot of confirmed cases of the virus in a very short time. They now show 890 confirmed cases since the first cases were discovered at the end of February. In a country of only 350,000 people, 890 is substantial. Anyway, the church wanted to keep the older (and "at risk") missionaries as safe as possible, so here we are!! We are self-quarantined until March 30th (that is the end of our two week co