We Would Still Love Being Here

Seven months ago we arrived in Cambodia, if we knew then what we know now, we would still love being here and the wonderful children of Our Heavenly Father that live here.  It has not even been a year since we received our mission call, but that was a lifetime ago.  On Monday Elder Oveson was telling one of the Sister missionaries about one of his former coworkers, and could not even remember her name.

Last Sunday in the Steung Mean Chey 3rd Ward we were asked if we would teach Gospel Doctrine this coming Sunday.  Our Cambodian is not even close enough to give a talk let alone teach a class, that means we will be using a young missionary to translate for us.  Because of that we have to be thoroughly prepared and give the Elder a little bit of forewarning about what we will teach.  Most Sundays whoever is teaching gets up and writes the title of the lesson and the related scripture references on the board and they end up reading those.  Most of the members really need the Gospel Principles class instead of Gospel Doctrine, but that is for the Bishop to decide, ours is but to do our best.  We did get the lesson fairly well planned today, and tomorrow we plan to see if we can find the lesson in Cambodian to print for our interpreter.

We also finished working up our Institute lesson and figuring out who is going to do what part.  Now we each need to polish our own sections, since this is the first lesson for this course we are hoping to have some new participants come.  We may only get one shot at them, otherwise they will go to an easier class that is taught in their own language.

This afternoon we had several correspondence from headquarters and local advisors on some issues that need to be worked out.  After looking at the various correspondence we did not see any new work for us, but we need to be prepared in case they ask for our help.

We feel that we are making a difference here and are grateful to be part of a great work.

We have not posted any sunsets lately, it has been raining too often, so that is our collage for tonight.