A Little About Cambodia And The Church Here

Since it was a slow day we will share a little about Cambodia.  We have not been every where, but we have been to the most populated areas and have learned a thing or two.  The population of Cambodia is a little over fifteen million, of which two million live in the Phnom Penh City area.  The Church has two stakes and two districts here in the city, there are eleven Wards and nine Branches.  Between 60% and 70% of the missionaries are stationed in the Phnom Penh area, but that is right in line with the percentage of Church units also.  Depending on what source you look at, either Siem Reap or Battambang is the second largest city.  Battambang area is a District with three Branches and a group (smaller than a Branch).  Siem Reap has is a District with two Branches.  There is also a District in Kampong Cham with three Branches, they are building a new beautiful District/Branch Building.  There is also a Branch in Kampong Thom which is between Kampong Cham and Siem Reap.  Our picture today are views of Phnom Penh from the roof of our apartment building.

The official country holidays may be over, but our office was still very quiet today.  Phanna should be on his way back from Taiwan, arriving home this evening.  Sameth took a vacation day today.  Sophorn was in his office but we did not see him very much and Kuntheavy was not there, so it must have been a vacation day for her too.  We did go to the office at 8:00 this morning and we even left our door open in case somebody came looking for Sameth or Phanna.  The only one that we saw was Vuth from the Chaktomuk bishopric, but he was there to see Sophorn.  We did ask if he is coming tomorrow, he has been attending our Institute Class, and he said yes.

We answered some emails and did some of our usual reports for the Perpetual Education Fund.  Then we finished preparing our lesson for tomorrow and setup the class room.  We did our daily reading, we are almost done with The Book of Mormon again.  We also did a little cleaning, just to do our part and show that we are doing our best to keep our area tidy.

By about 1:45 we were out of things to do an we needed to go grocery shopping. Tomorrow we will have visitors from the Asia Area and headquarters so we are not sure what our day will be like.  We decided to stay at our apartment this afternoon and do some of the stuff that we usually do on Sunday, like our weekly report letter.