Missionary Apartments - Preliminary Inspection and Plan

Today has been a very busy and full day with the young missionaries.  We have four apartments that we have been assigned to work with the missionaries to make sure that they are clean and reflect the way that missionaries should be living.  We arranged with all four groups to visit their apartments today and do a first walk through.  They are suppose to have them throughly clean and ready for a final inspection by the 12th of October.  To any parents that may read our blog, we were pleasantly surprised by the apartments that we visited today.

We had two apartments to visit in the North and Central Zone area, that is where we started our day.  We arranged to meet Sisters Fields and Loftus at the Phnom Penh North Stake Center and have them guide us to their apartment.  They are the only two in the apartment, but it is not big enough for any more than two.  They are on the third floor (that is the fourth floor in the U.S., they just count it different here) and there is no elevator, which is alright we can climb that far.  They had some typical issues, stuff that previous missionaries have left when they transferred out.  President and Sister Christensen gave them permission to get rid of anything that was not their's.  That was even a bigger problem in the second apartment that we visited, only with this apartment some Elders have left boxes of stuff to pickup later or at the end of their missions.  Those two apartments took our whole morning, but that was just fine with us.

We did spend a few hours in our office before heading for Stueng Mean Chey.  We had two apartments with four Elders in each apartment there to visit.  We again arranged to meet them at the church and to guide us to their apartments from there.  The first one had a few issues that they need to cleanup, but overall not bad.  One of the mission rules is to have ten twenty-liter water battles per companionship in each apartment, for current use and in case of emergency.  Most of the apartments had the bottles but many were empty, we reminded them that an empty bottle would not do them any good in an emergency.  The second Stueng Mean Chey apartment is a great location, easy to get into and out of and easy to find, but the apartment itself has some issues.  The landlord will need to get them fixed or we will recommend that these Elders be moved.  They have a few areas that they need to take care of, but overall they are trying.

When we got our mission call it said that we would be working in Self Reliance Services/ Perpetual Education Fund and anything else that the mission president asks us to do.  Today was part of the additional "anything else" but we are more than happy to help with. Even with the extra assignment we felt we were teaching Self Reliance.