Getting To Know Elder and Sister Leavitt Better

A couple of weeks ago we told Elder and Sister Leavitt, our knew office couple that we needed to go to lunch with them sometime soon.  With all of the coming and going last week we knew that it would not work then, so we scheduled it for today.  Our original plan was to pick them up at the Mission Office and take them, but last week we invited the Christensens to join us also.  Our little Corolla will not accommodate six people, but the Leavitts have a 15 passenger van that they drive, so they met us at our office.  We went to Mama's New York Deli, so the food was great, but the company was even better.

The Leavitts were originally called to serve in India, but the Indian government was really restricting the number of visas, so we were blessed to get them instead.  They are from Cardston Canada, but they lived in Calgary most of their married lives.  Both Elder and Sister Leavitt are the most upbeat people that you will ever meet.  They are funny and just plain fun to be around, they had us all laughing at lunch today.  We had originally planned on a one hour lunch but it quickly turned into an hour and a half.  The Cambodia Phnom Penh Mission is blessed to have the Leavitts as the Office Couple.

This week we have been doing a lot of correspondence trying to get the whole Self Reliance Services initiative authorized for Cambodia.  We better understand the hoops that the leaders have been jumping through since before we ever left for our mission.  It is interesting to see the Lord's hand in what is happening.  We probably were not ready for the full blown Self Reliance package before, we had to get the stakes and districts up to speed on one of the groups, now they are ready for the rest of them.