Ceff Mission Blog

Monday 11th to Thursday 14th More boring at home isolation. I'm so glad I didn't get Covid 12 months or more ago when you had to do two weeks of isolation. Would have driven me crazy! Something to keep me on track though was knowing that I would be teaching a Sunday School class for our young Singles on Sunday morning in 2nd Branch  and speaking in Sacrament meeting in 1st Branch in the afternoon. Friday 15th July 2022 Freedom at last! Trouble is I still don't have the energy to do much. I really want to go for a kitesurf, but just the thought of getting in the car to drive out to Yorkey's is exhausting! We went shopping - that was enough exercise. Good to get out of the house though! Saturday 16th July Up early this morning to get the house ready for another real estate sales inspection. I'll sort of be glad when they finally find a buyer, but the trouble is that will almost certainly mean having to find another place to rent, and in the current real estate rental ...

  My very weak second line on Friday 8th July It's a Covid week! On Monday we went online to view the funeral service for Craig Richardson from Melton Ward. We were both very sad to hear of his passing. Margot has been friends with his wife Ros since Young Single Adult days probably 40 years ago. I must admit that I had never had the chance to spend much time with Craig, but I really did enjoy each moment that I spent with him. Top bloke! Tuesday morning (July 5th) all six of us missionaries went to the Kimi'ias home for breakfast as always it was an absolute feast. Later that day we drove to Atherton, to visit a friend of Elders Dollery and Pollock, a lady our age called Gypsy. Not her real name but that's the name she likes, and it suits her. Margot was not feeling too well and we probably should not have gone, but we had a good chat with her, filling in some gaps that the young Elders had perhaps not got across all that well. But by the time we got home that night, Margo...

I heard an acronym that some Church people are using to describe themselves these days. PIMO = Physically In, Mentally Out. Apparently these are people who on the outside appear to be fully active in the Church, but have mentally or spiritually disengaged, for whatever reason. Perhaps they are just putting up appearances to keep their spouse or family happy. Maybe Church has become like a social club for them. I worry that unless they have some sort of spiritual rebirth they will probably find that they will stop attending altogether at some stage, thus becoming MOPO's. (Mentally Out, Physically Out) Another group that concerns me are the MIPO group.  These are people who are Mentally/spiritually in, but Physically Out. These are people who are still fully engaged spiritually but are physically unable to attend Church, perhaps because of a disability, maybe lack of transport, maybe living a long distance from a meeting house. My concern here is that they may, due to lack of fellow-...