It Is a Joy to Teach Our Institute Class

This morning the alarm went off way too early, but we climbed out of bed because we love to teach our institute class.  The first student, Seyha from the Chaktomuk Ward, arrived around 6:40, the class starts at 7:00, and nobody else came until around 6:55.  We started the class today with ten or eleven students, but shortly after that we were up to twenty.  What a fantastic group.  We enjoy this class because they are the future (and in some cases current) leaders of the Church here in Cambodia.  They are so willing to participate and answer the questions.  Elder Oveson is always worried that we do not have enough to fill the time, but the reality is we never get around to everything that we have prepared.

Since we FaceTimed to part of the family yesterday we called Wendy first today.  Our timing was perfect because four out of our six children were at Becky and Paul's for a 24th of July picnic.  It was great to be passed around to various members of the family and enjoy their gathering.  Gabby even tried to give us some apple crisp through the FaceTime connection, but it just did not work.

This afternoon we went to the Phnom Penh South Stake Starting and Growing My Business group.  They were on lesson four of the twelve for this course.  There were fourteen of the original sixteen there today, so we were pleased with the turn out today.