A Self Reliance Principle Works When Practiced

There are twelve principles of Self Reliance that are taught in each of the various groups.  The second one is to use time wisely, and teaches about planning out our day with priorities.  A very common excuse to not plan out a day is that we never know what is going to really happen so why plan.  In many ways we have also used that excuse, but we are now trying to plan the next day at 5:00 p.m. every day.

No, I am not going to tell you that everything went as perfectly planned, but I will tell you that Heavenly Father blesses you when you plan.  Our plan for today had some loose spots and was pretty rough, because we did everything that we could to plan, we were blessed with plenty to do all day.  To be honest, there were several things on our schedule that got pushed to tomorrow, when priorities take precedent other things can slide.

Elders Myers, Christensen, Morris, Le Nguyen, Oveson,
Sisters Oveson, Bui, and Mathews

The last two Tuesdays we have gone to the Chaktomuk District Meeting, so today we went to the Tuol Tom Poung District Meeting, since they both meet right across the hall from our office.  The Tuol Tom Poung District Leader is Elder Le Nguyen, one of the office Elders, who serves with his companion, Elder Morris in a Vietnamese Branch in the Central District.  Sister Bui, Sister Mathews, Elder Myers and Elder Christensen all serve in the Tuol Tom Pong Branch in the Phnom Penh East District.

We also had the opportunity to Skype with Candy Lau, the Area SRS Manager in Hong Kong today. She told us that she had resigned from her employment with the Church.  At first we were unhappy about that until she told us that she got her immigration visa for the U.S. and will be moving there in August.  She is going to live in the Salt Lake City area, so we told her that we will need to get together when we get back from our mission. We told her we wouldn't mind having her as our neighbor.

NOTE: We have added a slide show to our May 14th post, "YSA Conference: Stand In Holy Places". It is worth going back to look at the addition.