We're Tired! What a busy Sabbath!

Sunday is supposed to be a day of rest, but when you are assigned to attend two wards, have a convert baptism at attend, have visitors over for lunch, and finish the day with a Self Reliance meeting, it makes for a very long, tiring day. But What a wonderful day it was!

Shortly after we arrived for meetings at the Chaktomuk Ward, President and Sister Christensen arrived with Elders Eppley and Neuberger. Since President Christensen doesn't have his driver's license yet they tagged along with the assistants. We were grateful! They had plans to stay for the entire block, then attend the same convert baptism for Victoria which we were invited to at 1:00 p.m.  We hope they are not totally getting tired of Elder and Sister Oveson. We have been with them almost every day since they arrived in Cambodia.

After the Chaktomuk Ward meetings we asked President and Sister Christensen what their plans were for lunch. Our lunch had been prepared last night in the crock pot, and we happened to make enough for what we thought would be two meals for us. We were grateful to have them accept our lunch invitation. We know we appreciated having Elder and Sister Meinzer look out for us when we first arrived in the country.

As we returned to the church for Victoria's baptism, we couldn't help but think of another baptism we were not able to attend this week. Since we couldn't attend Roman's baptism, they did send some great pictures of our cute red-headed grandson.

Our drive to Steung Mean Chey had less Classic-Khmer photos today, however we only stayed for sacrament meeting today because we needed to attend the Self Reliance group in the North Stake at 6:00 tonight. There are two main roads to Steung Mean Chey, and both have construction. After church we took the other road back and found the construction there was definitely worse, but we didn't encounter any major traffic jams like we did our first time going home from Steung Mean Chey.

Finally the Self Reliance group was great. The North Stake was the first group to meet for their Self Reliance course. They were on lesson 9 out of 12 tonight. As we entered the church building one of the participants stopped us. He is the Bishop in one of the wards. He just wanted to tell us how much this Self Reliance group has meant for him and his wife. He talked for almost ten minutes of how this class had inspired him, and how he felt this is very much teachings from the Lord and not just from man. What a wonderful message of success in our Self Reliance calling! All these wonderful blessings outweigh the discomfort of sitting all day on the hard chairs at church! We are tired but we are happy and grateful to be in the service of the Lord!