It Is Always Nice To Hear That We are Doing Things Right

When we were called to serve as Self Reliance Services/Perpetual Education Fund missionaries in Cambodia, we had absolutely no idea what we were suppose to do.  We did go to the MTC in Provo for one week, but they only taught us about Preach My Gospel there.  We then had a devotional about the Self Reliance Initiative by Elder Sitati of the Seventy on Sunday at the MTC, and three days worth of training on Self Reliance at the Church Office Building before flying to Cambodia.

Upon arriving here we realized that the initiative was so new and due to the laws in Cambodia we could only do part of the initiative's curriculum.  Likewise, we had no idea at all how we were suppose to help the Perpetual Education Fund participants.  Over the last six plus months we have been doing our best to make a difference in the lives of those that we have the privilege of getting to know.

With Chad Furness coming to Cambodia we had the opportunity to find out a little better how we are doing and if we doing what is expected.  We were so humbled as Chad told our team more than once every day how pleased he was with our progress and the things that we were doing right.  He was especially pleased with our progress in getting the PEF participants to make the payments on their loans, and the way we work as a team, specifically in holding our weekly staff meeting.  We were given some areas that we still need to work on, but that is important in a visit like this also.  We are so glad that Chad came to help us for a eight days.  He left this evening for Hong Kong for high level meetings there during the next few days.

It was nice to be back to some of our normal routine today.  We had planned to go to District Meeting with the young missionaries, but one of our PEF participants wanted us to teach him how to research about businesses on the internet.  We are always willing to help, that is why we are here.