There was one suspected coronavirus infection of someone who works in a different building of my facility, but that person tested negative. It is a funny kind of epidemic that so far is not known to have infected any of the 2,000 people where I work, and we have each been asked to report in if we become sick or possibly infected. I searched for a “list of famous people infected by coronavirus,” and the list compilers had to dig pretty deep in coming up with “famous” people. Besides Tom Hanks, Idris Elba, Placido Domingo, Rand Paul, and a couple basketball players, I’d never heard of any of those people. Most of them are like Olga Kurylenko, best known (if known) for a role in a James Bond movie a dozen years ago. Does anyone reading this personally know someone who has tested positive for coronavirus infection? (more…)

The day after the bishop authorized and requested that men and youth of the priesthood provide the sacrament of the holy meal to their own families there was another e-mail. The second was from the elders’ quorum president reminding his quorum where in the scriptures we will find the prayers. That was all the prompting I needed.

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