Our Day Started and Ended with Wonderful Meetings

This morning we went to the Church Service Center here in Phnom Penh to watch an Area Devotional with the Church Employees.  They have these once a month, but this is the first one that we have attended.  Last Monday when we were to lunch with Samnang, the Service Center Manager we asked why we were not invited, so of course he invited us.  The devotional originated in Hong Kong and more than half of those in attendance there were Senior Missionaries, so we felt completely comfortable being at the devotional.  Elder Sam Wong, a Seventy in the Area Presidency, was the speaker, he taught us about "Remember, remember."

We made it to the Service Center just as it started to rain real hard.  He only got a little wet going into the Service Center, but as we left the water in the gutters was four feet wide and three or so inches deep, we just had to slosh through them.  Gratefully we had on shoes that it did not matter if they got wet or not.

This evening we had a gathering of the Senior Missionary Couples at the Mission Home.  President and Sister Christensen provided dinner, including fresh brownies and ice cream as desert.  They wanted to solicit our aid in working with the young missionaries to help them understand the importance of having clean apartments.  It is amazing that some things remain the same through the years with missionaries, this was an issue when I served my first mission to New Mexico.  We only have four apartments to inspect and teach them how to clean better.

The internet has become such a vital part of our daily work and activity that when it does not work, we really feel the difference.  The internet at our office has been acting up and the internet company tells us that the signal is perfect.  This afternoon we tried to contact one of the Church IT personnel to ask for her help but Skype would not work.  We figured that we would try tonight at home, but when we got home the internet was down.  That also meant that Monday's blog post had to wait to be postponed until Tuesday morning.  Maybe things will work better today.