Saturday: "Get Ready for Sunday!"

Our Institute Class on Saturday morning is a great way to wrap up a week. Getting up early for the blessings we see poured out on so many is hardly a sacrifice. Today was the last of our "Principles of Leadership" course, and we were quite pleased to have 20 students in attendance. We are encouraged that they want to keep coming to learn more of the gospel. We shared Pass-Along-Cards (in Khmer) with  the information for all the institute classes being taught in Phnom Penh this next semester. We will see what results we get from these wonderful young adults sharing with their friends. We can hardly wait to see how many will be there next week.

We had our typical Saturday Skype and FaceTime calls with the family. We were afraid that as we left the church we would be blocked in. As we left the office yesterday there was a funeral tent in the street close from the church, and the guards had to push a car out of the way so we could get out. That is one of the crazy things here. There are really no parking lots and little street parking to be found. So many people must have seen the church parking lot as a public place to park while they went to a funeral. They leave the car in neutral so it can be rolled to allow other cars to maneuver around them. With being trapped yesterday we were relieved that there was only a small handful of cars in the lot today.

After our weekly grocery shopping we were able to have a little leisure time to relax at our apartment. We can hardly remember when the last time we were able to have a Saturday afternoon with no meetings or appointments or something scheduled. We even had a simple dinner at Brooklyn. So, since Saturday is the day to get ready for Sunday, we got ready today because we won't likely get to have a restful Sunday.