District Meeting and Transfer Week

We have been here for over 9 weeks, and this past week we received a letter from President Moon telling the senior missionaries we should attend district meetings if possible. There is more than one district that meets at the South Stake Center, so we can take our pick. The one district that meets just across the hall from our office happens to be the district with the elders who translate for us each week in the Chaktomuk Ward, so that is where we attended today.

Elders Oveson, Gardner, Hall, Brewer, Eppley, Nhoem, and Myers
Sisters Oveson, Harris and Bui

This district includes one set of sisters and three sets of elders: Elders Brewer and Eppley, the Assistants to the President; Elders Gardner (District Leader) and Hall; Elders Myers and Nhoem; Sisters Harris and Bui. We have been blessed to interact with all of these wonderful missionaries over the past several weeks, and they are definitely being prepared to become future leaders. They had news of transfers this week. Sister Harris is transferring to Kampong Cham, and Elder Nhoem is completing his mission and transferring home.  When Elder Nhoem was asked who his new companions would be, he said "It will be Sister ... ?"  Everyone laughed.

At the office we worked on reports and odds and ends. Looking back on the past month, Elder Oveson took another accounting tactic to evaluate the progress. Khmer New Year really hurt our numbers. We hope the next line up of holidays won't keep the trend going.  (There is a holiday tomorrow and another three days next week). We just need to keep working, and continue making phone calls.

From the looks of the clouds today, we are heading into the rainy season for sure.  According to the forecast there is an 80% chance of thunderstorms every day starting on Friday and going the rest of the ten days out.  Maybe it will clear out some of the junk from the air. Between all of the motos and charcoal cooking the air is fairly thick with pollution.