One Assignment Complete and A New Project Begins

We have been busy enough lately that we have joked it has been a long month this week. It is amazing how we are lifted and strengthened even as we have our Super-Weeks. This week making the preparations for the visitors, then the follow through and implementing the plans, opened up to a much calmer day today.

We made a quick run to the mission home this morning to retrieve a care package. Thanks, Ellen, and all the rest of you, for your love and support! This package came much quicker than the one sent in September from Becky and Marla. The recent holidays have not been quite so extensive as Pchum Ben. One day off instead of five makes a huge difference in the mail service still  functioning!

We continue to see interesting new things here. Our collage today includes a few of those items, such as the interesting sense of fashion we see everywhere. My children would never let me out the door wearing the fashion combinations we see here.  Not only is the woman in the first picture making extremely fashionable, she is also being the connection between the moto and the trailer. The extra large bag on the back of a moto is recyclables. Bottom left is another fashionable lady, but this picture also shows the spring suspension of a moto trailer. This trailer is likely used for some heavy loads. Next, this is the first horse we have seen in the city here. Finally, this evening we could hear some noise outside so we went to investigate what it was, only to discover tents in the alley across the street from our apartment. The music we hear coming from the tent tells us this is a wedding and not a funeral.

Our days are full and wonderful. Now, since we have finished our most recent assignment, today picked up a new project, helping Phanna with Self-Reliance resources.