Another New Experience - Meeting With Attorneys

As we watch the other Senior Couples here in Cambodia we are amazed at how well the Lord has taken their life experiences and used them for his kingdom here on earth.  It feels like every couple is handpicked for their assignments.

When we applied to serve as a Senior Couple we figured that the Lord would put us to work doing some new exciting work.  Boy were we surprised.  We had not even been here a month when they had Elder Oveson putting together a cash projection for the Perpetual Education Fund in Cambodia.  Sister Oveson makes sure that his reports look nice and the emails make sense.  Elder Oveson may know numbers, but Sister Oveson knows grammar.  When the first project was done there were additional requests, that have continued.

We knew that the Church has to be very careful to comply with local laws through out the world, but we had no idea that we would be involved with that either.  Over the years Elder Oveson has worked with a number of attorneys professionally, but he thought those days were over when he retired.  Today we had our first appointment with a local law firm to finalize some licensing that the Church needs to have the full Self Reliance Services initiative here in Cambodia.  It was an interesting meeting and they were impressed with every thing that we had ready and presented to them.  As with most government related issues this will take three to six months to get the licenses that we need.  We will continue to fast and pray that it will go faster, instead of slower.

As we took a walk around the outside of the building to get a breath of fresh air, we found that there is more scaffolding up around the building.  This time the scaffolding was a combination of metal and bamboo.  There was one that was mostly metal, one completely bamboo and one that was a mixture of metal and bamboo.  On the South side of the building there are three areas of stone facade that were starting to deteriorate, which
they had pulled off.  It will be interesting to see what they put back up over the next few weeks.