Our Groups of New Friends Just Keep Growing

It is so amazing and humbling to be invited to serve our Heavenly Father's choice children here in Cambodia.  One of those extremely rewarding ways that we serve is as Institute Teachers on Saturday morning.  We always worry about who will come and who we will be missing.  It seems like on an average week six make it to our class, the problem is that it is seldom the same six.  There are two that are very faithful and seldom miss, a young sister named Monicao and a returned missionary named Reaksmey.  Monicao has two brothers that generally make it and Reaksmey's sister came for the first time today.  We were blessed to have twelve at institute, today was the first time for three of them.  It is interesting to have three new class members on the last day of the course.  We will have the next four weeks off and start a new class on July 4th.

About eighteen months ago there was a Senior Couple called to serve in India, but they could not get visas so they ended up here as the Office Couple.  They ended up going home early for some family emergencies, so the Hollenzers have been serving as Office Couple.  Today a new Senior Couple, the Leavitts, arrived to be the new Office Couple here.  They were originally called to serve in India but could not get their visas, so we are blessed to have them here.  We went to the airport to greet them with the other Senior Couples today, President and Sister Moon are out of town for Zone Conference.  We went as a group out to lunch at the Titanic, a good restaurant were we can all sit together to visit and get to know each other.

We also said goodbye to some friends today, Ty and Melissa flew out today to return to the U.S.  They are a great young couple that were likewise a joy to get to know.  We know that their visit to Cambodia will definitely change them in many ways. You cannot visit a place like this and not go away changed.