Helping With English Class

Today was another wonderful day serving Our Heavenly Father and His children here in Cambodia.  Even though we have been here in Phnom Penh for over three months we had some new adventures today.  Sameth had asked Sister Oveson if we would go and buy some more copy paper, he blamed Phanna saying that he likes to print too many things.  We have been in an office supply store in the Mall but we did not want to go that far, and Sameth knew of one not far from the Stake Center.  It is amazing that we are able to go and pick up items at a store with our limited Khmer and their limited English.

Yesterday Sameth gave us a new list of Perpetual Education Fund participants that speak English well enough that we could call.  There were thirteen on the new list, but as we compared it to our old lists, we found that seven were duplicates, so there are only six new ones.

We had a Perpetual Education Fund participant come in today wanting to payoff his loan.  He has been wanting to pay it off for a month but we are waiting for headquarters to fix the incentive program on the computer.  We calculated what the payoff should be and told him that it should be correct, but we will verify the amount and let him know.  Since he paid it off at our office we had to take the payment to the Service Center, we did not want that much cash at our offices.

Since we were over to the Service Center, we stopped by the Mission Office and had a nice surprise.  Marla had mailed some pictures and letters from Roman and Hudson on April 11th, they finally got here.  Packages are faster than letters.

We finished out the day helping the young missionaries with their weekly English Class.  We went into the beginner class and helped Elder Myers and Elder Christensen.  They had a big class, there were thirty in their class tonight, from the very young, six to eight years old, to the very old, a Japanese man in his sixties.  We helped them learn the "RL" and "L" sounds tonight.  Some were able to pick it up and others struggled.  By showing up to help tonight, we probably have a new responsibility going forward.