A Fantastic Ordinary Saturday

Saturday is easily one of our favorite days of the week.  We start off with our extraordinary Institute class.  We were blessed to have twenty-three participants there today.  They are so smart and have such wonderful comments, we are so blessed to teach them.  These are current and future leaders of the Church here in Cambodia.  We taught them about proper delegating, the difference in just getting an assignment off of you and onto somebody else and blessing the lives of others by training through delegation.  Elder Oveson is always afraid that we are going to run out of material for our lesson, so we prepare extra and never get to it.  It is better to have more than plenty, instead of not enough.

This morning we Skyped or FaceTimed with all of our family back home in Utah.  What an absolute blessing to be able to spend a couple of hours talking to those we love so very much.  We learned about climbing trees, eggs and omelets, lego blocks, new cars, that babies will crawl over to play with computers and ignore grandma and papa, trumpets, school, credit cards that do not work at the gas station, new windows in the playhouse, backpacks that get stolen at school, new shoes, baby showers and more.

We were invited to attend the seminary and institute graduation this afternoon, and were told
that at least four of our Institute members were graduating.  This morning one of the four came and asked if we were coming, that was enough incentive to say sure.  We actually had at least of ten of our Institute participants receive certificates tonight.   What a great blessing, the Area Seventy, Elder Khanakham, was there to preside and speak and President Christensen was one of the other speakers.  They also had various seminary and institute participants and their parents speak.  This is such an important part of the training of the members here in this nation where the gospel has only been for twenty years.