Ready to Go to the Kaits? and Khmer Skirts for the Senior Sisters

We wonder what we might write when we have been running around finishing things up so we can leave town tomorrow. There were still plenty of things that needed to be done, whether we were leaving town or not.

Our weekly Skype call with Elder and Sister Powell was delayed from last Thursday until today. We had a great visit with them, as always. Our visit with them today brought back memories of the first time we took the trip to the Kaits [Kites], going to Siem Reap and Battambang on a road trip with the Powells. We had been in the country about three weeks. What a great visit! This trip won't include the tourist sites, but we will have Chad visit from the Asia Area to travel with us. We are looking forward to the visit, but not so much the long drive.

One other item we had today was a meeting with President and Sister Christensen and Elder and Sister VanBrocklin. President Christensen has asked the four of us to work on a project looking at the feasibility of creating a group or branch in a new area. It is exciting to be asked to be detectives looking for the required information. This also seems to be quite a daunting task, trying to find people with the kind of addresses available (or NOT available) in Cambodia.

Tonight we met with the Senior Missionaries who are in Phnom Penh. Sister Oveson had set an example to the other sisters of having Cambodian skirts made, so three of them went on Friday with Sisters Spangler and Uresk to the market and to the seamstress to order skirts. The sewing was completed today, so we picked the finished product up from the young sisters to deliver "Christmas Presents" to the seniors at our Family Home Evening. They were all very pleased with their new skirts. The members here will be pleased that they now have Khmer skirts. Sister Oveson has had many of the local sisters tell her how pleased they were to see her new clothes. They told her she now looks like the Khmer.