More Construction Around the Church?!

Just in case anyone was wondering ...
As construction inside the Phnom Penh South Stake Center has calmed, we had hopes the work would be wrapping up some time soon. Even the bamboo scaffold shows progress and is currently in the back of the building.  Then this morning we headed out to run some errands and found this new project under way. The work (as is the Khmer way) was all being done by hand. At least we know there are people who are not afraid of physical labor.

This is the only driveway in and out of the parking lot, and we did not want to drive across this trench, so our only other option was to turn around and plan the errands another day.

This project looks like it may actually be for the power lines to be under ground instead of strung through the trees as power poles. That would be wonderful progress. By 11:30 the men were not to be found around the trench. Instead we found one taking a nap in the shade and cool of the church balcony. They had the trenches filled and the driveway usable again by 3:00.