We Love the Senior Missionaries Here In Our Mission

Next Friday and Saturday there will be a Senior Missionary Conference here in Phnom Penh for the whole mission.  You would think that we could wait to get together until then, but tonight we had six out of the nine couples, including President & Sister Christensen, go out to dinner together.  Elder & Sister Noorda that serve in Vietnam are here waiting for their visas, so it was great to include them in the group tonight.  We went to a restaurant called Magnolia that serves Vietnamese food.  We had a large Vietnamese pancake, similar to a thin and crispy crepe, stuffed with chicken, shrimp and mushrooms, and a separate dish of stir fried pork.  It was very good, but we ate way too much.

We realize that this will shock the regular readers of our blog, but today was a holiday here in Cambodia, to honor the signing of the Paris Peace Accord.  We have already had five holiday days this month and there is one more next week.  Six holiday days in one month is unbelievable.

Even though the Self Reliance office was closed for the holiday we went in to work on our Institute lesson.  We usually have it well planned by Friday, but not this week, it has just been too busy.  It took us two to three hours, but at least we now feel comfortable with what we need to teach.  While we were at the office Brother Touch Sophornn brought a Seminary and Institute visitor from Salt Lake to meet us, Brother Scott Wilde.  We had a great talk and learned that we have several mutual friends.

Since we had some time Sister Oveson wanted to adjust one of her tops, she has lost enough weight that it did
not hang right and she cut off her one pair of paints to capri length.  The Mission Office has a sewing mission that Sister Christensen told that she was welcome to use whenever she needs to.  It was time well spent and she is very pleased with the outcome.