Every Day Things Just Feel a Little More Settled In

During the week we have our safe little haven in our office and we mainly interact with Phanna, Sameth, Sophorn and an occasional PEF student.  Sundays are completely different.  We go to two different wards, and if the young full-time missionaries are not there to translate for us we only understand the few words that we have learned so far.

At first that felt strange, but now that is just fine.  We follow the class lessons on LDS Library, and even though it is not the same language we have a better idea of what is going on.  In fact in both wards today they asked if we had any other comments, and thankfully we had interpreters there to help us.

With transfers last week, we have a lot of new young full-time missionaries to meet and get to know.  In the Chaktomuk Ward, we mentioned in a different post that Elder Gardner has a new companion, Elder Hall from Texas.  They also changed one of the Assistants to the President.  Elder Brewer is now with Elder Eppley who is from Texas as well.  In the Steung Mean Chey 3rd ward Elder Long is still there, but his companion is Elder Morgan.  We also have Sister Missionaries in that ward, Sister Jepsen and Sister Spangler.

Since it took us so long to get home last time we went out to Steung Mean Chey 3rd, we asked others if there was a different route to take.  There was, but it was a little longer and not as straight of a shot.  We figured that since we were trying a new way we better leave as early as last time.  To our pleasant surprise we made it there in thirty minutes, exactly the same amount of time as the other way two weeks ago.  On the way there we came across another of those purely Cambodian picture opportunity, a whole group of workers working up a power pole.  Coming home was still really congested, but at least it was moving and it only took 50 minutes, half the time of two weeks ago.