Elder Swallow is #Fiji Bound

 Update #6 3 rd April 2020 Dear Family, Well the past 18 hours have certainly been full of miracles and a healthy dose of excitement. Let me share the latest developments as they have transpired. We received confirmation that all USA and Canada based missionaries will be leaving for home on Saturday night 4 th April  7.00pm, the flight departs from Nadi and will take 88 of our missionaries plus missionaries from other island missions that will arrive in Nadi to board the plane with ours totaling over 300 missionaries. The flight will go directly to Salt Lake City and arrive 11.30 am 4 th April 2020 SLC time. Missionaries will transit through Salt Lake to their onward home destinations. When I receive their itineraries, I will email this directly to each family contact, also your missionaries will receive a copy. We had planned to charter busses to take our missionaries from Suva to Nadi on Saturday morning, howev...

Update #5 - 1st Apr 2020 Dear Family, Our missionaries continue to strengthen and support each other as the time draws closer for their return to their home countries. Progress is being made with the repatriation of missionaries well underway. The charter repatriation of North American missionaries from the Pacific area has begun, some Australian Missions now have dates for departure for this Friday, and our mission is awaiting further news on when flights will be scheduled f or Fiji. Your missionaries are ready to go whenever we receive flight itineraries. The government announced today that the Lautoka region lock down will continue to be in place until April 7th at 5.00 am, the missionaries there will have to wait until that date before they can move from the area, they are all doing well and have plenty of supplies to last through this period. The latest information regarding the Lautoka announcement can be found at  https://www.fbcnews.com.fj/ Sister Higgins and I sp...