What A Difference A Week Makes

Last Saturday as we went to leave our apartment at 6:15 a.m. to go teach our Institute class, our car was blocked and the parking staff had to wake several people, including the building owner, to get our car out.  This week as we went done everything was cleared out of the way and the gates to the garage were open for us to leave.  What great service!

We had six at our Institute class this morning, which was great and exciting, we enjoy teaching them.  After the class we Skyped with all of our children and their families, except for Israel and Melissa, they were both at work.  There were several good news stories, congratulations to Melissa on her new job and to Paul on being accepted to go the the U this fall.  Elder Oveson worked with Sameth on reviewing some PEF renewal loans, before we left our office.  We made our weekly journey to Lucky's for groceries.  As we have said before, some items are very reasonable and others are really high since they are imported.

This afternoon we went to a My Path Devotional at the Tuol Sang Ke Ward In the Phnom Penh North Stake, which is Phanna's Ward.  The bishop was hoping for about thirty, but ten members and an investigator showed up.  In Utah we say that Mormon Standard Time is five to ten minutes late, in Cambodia Khmer Time is half hour to an hour late, we even had a member show up basically two hours late.

Unlike many of the other Church Buildings in Cambodia, the one that we went to today was not built and owned by the Church.  It is a rented building that has three floors.  The bottom or ground floor is the chapel, and the others are classrooms and offices.  A Cambodian Ward and Vietnamese Branch meets in this building.