Life Is a Continuous Circle

Last night was our most restful sleep all week.  We actually slept until the alarm went off, with occasional wake ups because we are getting old.  When we got home from the office today and went into our bedroom, we could hear the music  out the patio door.  We looked out and sure enough there is another tent on the road below.  This time the music is a lot more joyful, so we figure it has to be a wedding.  They do have someone directing traffic around the tent who loves that he has a whistle, because he sure is blowing it a lot tonight.

The construction outside our office door started about midmorning today, but it only lasted part of the day.  They did take away all of the big chunks of cement that they had pulled up, but they did not even attempt to sweep up the dust.  It will be interesting to see if they just mix that into the new layer that they have for the tile to go on.  The painters finished stripping the walls by our office today, so by late afternoon our hall was quiet again.

A few weeks ago President Moon shared with the Senior Couples that Elder Jeffrey R. Holland will be coming to Cambodia.  He asked us not to discuss it with anyone until the Stakes and Districts started talking about it.  We did hear it mentioned last Sunday in Steung Mean Chey, so we feel that we can put it on our blog now.  We are excited for the members here in Cambodia to have an apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ coming.  For many of them this will be their first time to hear an apostle here in their own country.  We know that he is coming in August, and we will share the details of his visit as they are announced.

Next week is starting to fill up with a lot of exciting opportunities for us.  Our new mission president and his wife, Jim & Char Christensen, arrive Tuesday night, and we are going with the other Senior Couples to greet them.  Wednesday night we are going to dinner with President & Sister Moon, President and Sister Christensen and the other Senior Couples.  Then that evening President & Sister Moon fly home, again we plan to go to the airport to say goodbye.  The next day is a Zone Conference for the young missionaries to meet President & Sister Christensen.  On Saturday we teach our institute class and go to the U.S. Embassy for an Independence Day celebration.  Sounds like a fun full week already.
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