Jack Hammers and the Roneat (Khmer Xylophone)

This morning was a repeat of the 5:00 a.m. chanting, singing and xylophone music. The tones were less ominous, but still a disturbance to our sleep. As we were getting ready for the day the Khmer Xylophone (or Roneat) music reminded us of the entertainment we had seen at the Titanic Restaurant, but we were not amused and entertained at that hour.

The renovations in our building are getting closer and closer to our office.  Yesterday the crew started taking out carpet and using a small Jack Hammer to remove a three inches layer of the concrete in the hall of our wing. They were back bright and early again today. Between the noise and the dust we knew our stay in our office would be short.

District meeting is usually in the classrooms across the hall from our office, but when the Elders came to our office door we suggested they would want to use the rooms downstairs instead. Considering the noise and dust, they agreed with us. With transfers, the districts have been shuffled a bit. We attended the district with Elders Christensen (the new District Leader), and Myers (his companion);  Eppley and Neuberger (the AP's); and Sisters Jepsen and Kuon. This is a powerful group of young missionaries, and we feel honored to associate with them. After the meeting Elders Le Nguyen and Morris, Olsen and Osborne joined us for a picture.

After District Meeting it was obvious we would not be comfortable staying in our office for the afternoon. By that point the crews had made it down the hall almost to our office door. We took our weekly Self Reliance/PEF Staff Meeting with Phanna and Sameth downstairs and came back up to find the work had progressed just past our office door.  We packed up our work to finish at our apartment.  And ... there we found the chanting, singing and Xylophone Music was continuing.

One more trip to the office this evening, the workers had called it a day. The piles of rubble lined the wall all the way down our hall, but the noise had stopped. Elder Le Nguyen and Morris had an appointment in our office with the Japanese investigator again for a Skype teaching session using our computers.