Back to a NORMAL Sunday

Today we had our Normal Sunday schedule. (Whatever Normal is!) We attended church in the Chaktomuk Ward this morning. It was good to see so many of the members had returned from the provinces in time for church, but attendance was still low. One of the members brought fresh Mangos from her trip to the province and gave us some. What a wonderful treat! We also were blessed to attend a convert baptism immediately after the meeting block. This young man has been attending church regularly for several years, and has taken the discussions for about 5 years. He will be a great addition to the Chaktomuk Ward!

For lunch we figured we should have our heavier meal for the day before time to go to Steang Mean Chey for the afternoon. And, since we had all those Mangos, we enjoyed Mango Chicken. The recipes we found online had too many ingredients not to be found in our kitchen, so we improvised. This is definitely a meal to make again, and it was really quite simple. We loved the mango sauce and might try it on some pork chops sometime soon.

Our trip to Steang Mean Chey proved interesting, as always. With everyone returning to the city this weekend from having gone to the provinces for Khmer New Year, we expected to see the roads crowded. They really were not as packed as we thought, but we found the vehicles were fully loaded (or overloaded)! They looked like the doubled the capacity of passengers in many of them. Overflow seating was on the roof! We were pleasantly surprised by the relatively light traffic after church as well. We expect the city's traffic will be back to the crazy normal tomorrow.