Our First P-Day and it was exciting

Saturday is Preparation Day for the couples. It is our day off since most of us have office jobs the rest of the week and assignments in the various Wards and Branches on Sunday.

WE FaceTimed with five out of our six children and their families this morning.  Morning in Cambodia is the previous night in the U.S. so that works very good for us to catchup on what is happening back home.

We are moving forward with finally getting settled into our new assignment and our own place.  We received the mission cell phone today and got it setup and working.  We went and purchased some more food to stock our apartment.  And we now have a time when we will be going to the storage unit to see what is there, so we can determine what we will have and what we need to buy to get out own apartment finally setup.

This afternoon we went with the Meinzers to an Orphanage that is run by a member.  She has 31 children at the orphanage right now, and even though they are not all members they go to church with her every week.  All the children greeted us with warm hugs and hellos as we arrived, and goodbye hugs as we left. They fed us beef and vegetable stew and put on a program for us. It was very touching.  The Church is going to help her put together a garden.

We also went to our first Cambodian wedding tonight, it was quite the event.  It was held at a big hall with around five hundred guests.  In Cambodia, the bride and groom change their outfits several times, all very glamorous and formal.  The groom told Sister Meinzer that he had four different formal suits and the bride had six or seven.  It was a dinner that never seemed to end.We had fish, duck, chicken, rolls, soup, etc. We decided that we had another important meeting before it was over and left.