Last Minute Preparation

Today is Independence Day here in Cambodia, the first of four holidays this month.  We were grateful to have things to do, so it did not feel like a holiday at all for us.

The internet at our apartment went out Saturday shortly after we sent out our weekly email, and it was still down this morning.  We needed to get some things done so we headed to the office at our regular time today.  The traffic was not as good as during Pchum Ben, but it was significantly lighter than usual.

Today our oldest grandson, Jaren, became an official teenager, so we FaceTimed with him to wish him a Happy Birthday.  We had an email from our daughter Marla wondering if we were still alive since we did not post on our blog last night.  We decided to FaceTime with her and Connie and assure them that we were fine.  We got a great screenshot to use for one of our pictures for this evening.

Most of our day was spent preparing for the visit of Sister Esplin and Sister Marriott.  They should be on the ground here in Cambodia right now, and the real work begins in the morning.  There are two stakes and two districts here in Phnom Penh, each were asked to invite members to participate in Focus Groups and two were invited to set up home visits.  We finally got the last of the information that we needed today.  Sister Oveson has worked on lanyards for the Focus Groups, our other picture this evening.  We met with President Christensen this afternoon to try and make sure that all of the bases were covered.