Our Week Continues With Some More and Some Less

We were awakened at 5:00 this morning again by the chanting and music of the funeral.  We have been told that funerals can last for a full week, but on our way home this evening when we looked the tent is gone.  Tomorrow morning will be the test of whether it is over or not.  Then we are told that we will go through something similar 100 days after the funeral.  We are in Cambodia, so we have to learn to accept their culture.

There is only a small section of our hall that still needs to be broken up, so we figured that they would get it done this morning.  The only problem was no workers showed up this morning or even this afternoon.  We just hope that it is not like the internet, now going to just sit like it is for three weeks.

When we received our mission call it said that we would speak English on our mission.  We did have a tutor for about four weeks before our mission, but the first couple of months while we were here we  were busy enough that we did not study our Khmer very much at all.  We have now gone back to studying the language, since we will be here another nineteen months we need to learn as much as we can.

The Perpetual Education Fund has come up with incentives for the participants that graduate, have good grades and pay off their loan early.  We have been waiting for headquarters to update the computer program so that it calculated the incentives, but it still is not done.  We had one participant payoff a month and a half ago and another one this month.  Headquarters had one of their staff hand calculate the incentives and payoff amount for the one this month.  It came out exactly the same as Elder Oveson figured it should be.  Good to know.  Now we are pushing them to get the other one calculated.  It will be nice to have these resolved.

Tonight was English classes at the Stake Center.  They had twelve missionaries, so we were just crowd control for the first forty-five minutes or so.  The parking lot was full of motos as we went to leave, so that is our picture for today.