Happy Easter!

Today may be Easter, but we had a very different holiday than past years.  There was no candy or treats, no egg hunt.  We didn't even have a normal General Conference schedule. As church started at 8:00 a.m. at the Chaktamuk Ward where we attended, General Priesthood Session would have been about halfway through back.  It was fast Sunday here. After our meetings we went back to our apartment to watch the recorded Saturday Morning session of General Conference before eating our lunch. General Conference Sunday here will be next week.

There was one special event this afternoon. Elder and Sister Vanbrocklin, the Public Relations Senior Couple, were given 10 tickets to a Multi-denomination Easter Program.  We decided to follow the rule that if other missionary couples invited us to do something, we should do it!  We caught a ride with Elder and Sister Hollenzer and President and Sister Moon.  The Vanbrocklins and Meinzers were there somewhere, but we never saw them.

As we went to find seats, President Moon showed his VIP ticket to one of the ushers, who showed us all the way to the front, to the 4th row of seats.  Before we were seated, however, President and Sister Moon were invited by the Deputy Minister of Religion and Cults to take seats on the stage.  After about 10 minutes we were asked to move up to the 2nd row. They wanted all the seats in the front section to be full.

This was a very interesting cultural program in a nice large auditorium.   There were beautiful Khmer dancers, drum performers, flag twirlers and more. Very entertaining!  The program was entirely in Khmer, so we spent the time listening for the few words we might recognize.  One word we picked out that they used quite a bit was "Kampuchea".  We asked the meaning and learned that is the country of Cambodia. Khmer is the language.  We learned something new today!