Church in two Wards, PEF My Path Meeting and Elder Oveson's obsession with numbers

We enjoy being assigned to visit two Wards every Sunday, that gives us something to do and more wonderful Cambodian members to meet.  This morning for the Chaktomuk Ward we had to move the Sacrament Meeting to a large classroom across from our office.  The chapel and cultural hall were being used by the Phnom Penh East District for their District Conference.  The building that we attend at is referred to as the Phnom Penh South Stake Building, but it is really in the East District boundaries.  It will be interesting to see what happens when and if the East District becomes a stake, will they build a new South Stake Center? We will have to wait and see.

Sister Jeppsen and Sister Spangler

In the Steang Mean Chey 3 Ward we have the privilege of serving with two awesome Sisters that play the organ in Sacrament Meeting and also translated for us today.  Sister Jeppsen is from Preston Idaho and Sister Spangler is from Draper Utah.  We only attended Sacrament Meeting in the Steang Mean Chey 3 Ward because we had a My Path devotional to go to this evening in the Phnom Penh North Stake.  The traffic leaving Steang Mean Chey was almost as bad as the first week we went out there.  What should have taken us 30 to 40 minutes took an hour and fourty-five minutes.  It was a typical Cambodian traffic jam, the motos keep whizzing past until every little spot is completely packed.

We originally had not planned on going to the My Path, but Phanna left some items at the office that he needed for it and we promised to take them to him.  There were about 30 members there for the My Path tonight, which is our biggest group so far.  Sister Oveson ended up entertaining six to eight children that came with their parents.  Phanna lives in the North Stake, and that is the stake that has done the most with the Self Reliance Initiative here in Cambodia.

Our mission is 23 months, which boils down to basically 700 days.  Today is our 70th day on our mission so we are officially 1/10th of the way through.  Why count months when you can break the total into 10ths instead?  We have now been in Cambodia eight weeks and in just a couple of weeks we will no longer be the newest Senior Couple.   Elder and Sister Spencer come the first part of May into the mission, they are called as Member Leadership Support missionaries (MLS), which gives the Mission President a lot of flexibility of how to use them.