"Are you busy?"

Today was an "Are you busy?" Day. When we were checking our email as we got to the office there was a message from Sister Spencer in Battambang. She has been puzzling over a question that we have been trying to figure out how to handle as well. So we scheduled a Skype call later in the morning. That really turned out good. Elder and Sister Spencer don't get to join with many of the senior get-togethers, so it was nice to see them. It is wonderful to be able to talk things over and come up with more solutions.

We needed to pick up a few supplies for the office and run a couple of errands after lunch. Traffic is always busy in this city. We stopped in at the mission home as one of our stops, so we had a brief visit with President and Sister Christensen. They just came back from Zone Conference tour in the Kaits, and will leave again soon for Zone Conferences in Vietnam. They are trying to get things done in the few minutes they have between travel. So, they're busy.

After returning to our office we spent the afternoon busily preparing for our upcoming lessons we need to teach this weekend. We were almost ready to go home when Elder Cook knocked at our door, "Are you busy?" One of their investigators was scheduled for a baptism interview with President Christensen at his office, but her moto broke down. We assured him we were not too busy to take this sister to the mission home.

As we travel the streets of Phnom Penh, even when they are busy, it is always interesting what we might see. Rush hour happens here, just like back home (but even worse). Wrong way drivers are common in the traffic that has sprawled across more lanes than are marked (they actually only use the lane markings as a suggested spacing, but traffic rarely stays in the lines.)  Traffic was busy enough we could see some of the events on the sede, like the group burning their trash in a basket on the sidewalk.

We were grateful to get home where we could have an evening where we were not quite so busy.