Our Sister Sign Wavers, A Package From Home and Understanding Our Blessings

Sister Harris and Sister Fife

This morning as we drove into the Phnom Penh South Stake parking lot four of the Sister Missionaries were out front with the English Class signs.  We had never seen them in the morning before so we went and talked with them to see if we had just missed them in the past.  They explained that they usually do it at night but were trying to get a new demographic of potential English Class participants, so they decided to try the morning drive time.  We figured that they needed to be our picture for today.

Last night as we met with the Senior Missionaries, President Moon asked for some help with putting together a Twister game for Saturday's Returned Missionary Reunion.  Elder Oveson volunteered Sister Oveson for the project, which she did accept.  This morning she jumped right into figuring out how to do it, and we already had the material that we need in our little cabinet.  She was going to do three sets and had one all the way done when we got a call from the Mission Office. Sister Moon had asked a Sister missionary with some health problems to do that project.  That was alright with Sister Oveson, and we promised to take what we had to the Mission Home this afternoon.

Also this morning we got an email from Hong Kong telling us that Elder Randy Funk, of the Second Quorum of Seventy who is also a member of the Asia Area Presidency, wanted to Skype with us at 11:00 our time.  He gave us an assignment to followup with some Church Leaders that he had visited with in his prior visits to Cambodia.  We are always willing to take assignments from any of the Brethren.

Our trip to the Mission Home actually turned out for our benefit instead of the other way around.  The package that Marla had sent to us arrived today.  Marla truly knows her parents well, along with the items that we had requested was a bag of Almond M&Ms.  We will have to see how long we can make them stretch, we still have some left from the previous package that we have been rationing.  A taste of the U.S. is always a welcome treat.

Last week when we had the big wind storm it knocked out power to Siem Reap, the second largest city in Cambodia, for four days.  We were talking to Sameth about that and he said that his power was out for one day.  We asked him what they did with the food in their refrigerator, and he told me that they do not have one. The electricity is too expensive to have one.  That just broke our hearts for them.  Then today we were talking about where Sameth and Phanna live.  Sameth has a one room flat that is about 300 square feet total, but Phanna has about 690 square feet.  Those are both very small, even for their little families.  We have been so blessed in our lives, we have no room to complain about what the Lord has shared with us.