Happy Birthday Sister Oveson and South Zone Training Meeting

We have been asked several times over the last week or so if we were going anywhere fun for Sister Oveson's birthday and we always answered Cambodia.  This year Sister Oveson has had more than fifty people sing happy birthday to her, twenty-four (24) at the South Zone Training Meeting today.  We definitely miss being with family for birthdays and holidays, but we are so grateful for those who help fill in the gaps, our friends and new family here in Cambodia.

Our day started off out in Steung Mean Chey at the Phnom Penh South Zone Training Meeting.  We have the very best missionaries in the whole Church in our Zone and we are so thankful to be able to serve with them.  We always marvel at the profound and great teachings that these young missionaries give during these meetings, there is only one Senior Couple per Zone and some Zones do not have a Senior Couple.  Since it was Sister Oveson's birthday we brought them all a little treat, little pre packaged cake snacks.  Of course our picture for the day is the young missionaries as promised.

For lunch today we went with Phanna, Sokhom, Amy, Sameth and Yuri, to Mama's New York Deli.  The others brought a birthday cake and sang Happy Birthday to Sister Oveson again.

We spent the afternoon tying down loose ends for the visit of Sister Esplin and Sister Marriott next week and finishing our Institute lesson for tomorrow morning.

This evening we went to Brooklyn Pizza & Bistro for dinner.  That is our favorite restaurant here in Phnom Penh.  Sister Oveson had B-B-Q ribs and Elder Oveson had a pulled pork sandwich, along with smoothies.  Today was a great day!