Our Little Bit of Christmas

In Cambodia 95% of the population are Buddhist, and only two percent are Christian, the other three percent are Muslim, Hindu, etc.  With that, Christmas is not even an official holiday on the calendar.  Many of the holidays are based around Buddhism, but when you are in the minority you should not expect a whole lot.  The government entity that the Church has to report to is the Ministry of Religion and Cults.  Buddhism is the Religion and all of the rest are cults.

We figured that we did not need any real Christmas decorations this year, even though you can find plenty in some stores, especially office supple stores.  As we moved offices on Monday Sameth reminded us that there was a three foot Christmas tree that we should take and use.  Since Oveson jumped at the opportunity, it took a few days to get it up, but we are officially ready for Christmas in our apartment now, complete with a nativity.

Today was another busy day for us.  We finished up the new analysis that Hong Kong asked us to work on about the Perpetual Education Fund participants.  We went over it as a team and made some adjustments to take into mind the human factors of some of the participants.  We also finished working on our Institute lesson for tomorrow.  Sister Oveson worked on a presentation for the International Branch while Elder Oveson worked on stuff for the Stake Presidency and Stake PEC Meetings tomorrow.

Yesterday we went and picked out some new office chairs, they were delivered this morning.  We left the old ones with the desks at our former office, but they were not very comfortable anyway.  Now we have chairs that fit our old bodies better and are a little softer also.