Reports, Meetings, and Raincoats

After spending the day yesterday visiting missionary apartments and talking with them about what needs to be done to put things in order, we spent much of today putting together reports on our visits.

We shared with them a scripture from Mosiah 4:27, "And see that all these things are done in wisdom and order; for it is not requisite that a man should run faster than he has strength. And again, it is expedient that he should be diligent, that thereby he might win the prize; therefore, all things must be done in order." With this we challenged them to put things in order, and that "expedient" meant first or extremely important. We are hopeful they will take the challenge to heart.

Besides working on apartment reports we also attended District Meeting. It has been a few weeks since we were able to attend a district meeting, so it was great to be there and learn and be uplifted with the teachings of these amazing young missionaries. Elder Cook taught about Prayer and gave us a challenge to improve our prayers.  We find that even old people like us can use some improvement.

We have begun preparing our lesson material for our new Institute course. We will be teaching "Jesus Christ and the Everlasting Gospel." It is exciting to learn and teach more about Jesus Christ.  Since we only meet once a week, we will need to cover two lessons each time to get through all of them by the end of the semester.  That is alright, we love teaching this class and we love the humble members that come each week.

It is still the raining season, we still get rain every day, fortunately it is often while we are in our office or at home.  We have had our times out in traffic and when we have got more than a little wet. Tonight we opted for a quick dinner at Mama's while the Elders used our office for their Japanese Skype discussion. We had just placed our order when the rain started to fall. Mama was quick to put out her Raincoat Bouquet hoping to bring in a customer or two. We asked her how much they are, and learned they are 2000 Riel (or 50 cents). She gets about 30 percent profit from that. As we talked with her tonight we asked if she owned her building, she answered, "No, I don't have money. They would ask 3/4 Million dollars for this property." So even in Cambodia real estate is unreasonably high. She used to live in New York. Maybe it's not so different here.