Happy New Year

Last night we decided to just stay home and avoid all of the crowds and potential intoxicated drivers. Beer and alcohol consumption is a big problem here in Cambodia, and we know how bad their drivers are when they are sober, so we did not want to be out on New Years Eve. About 8:00 p.m. there was a knock at our door, that was very unexpected since you have to get past the parking guards to get into the building. It was our landlord, her husband and little son, they brought us a fruit basket for New Years. It had delicious and expensive strawberries, a mango, apples, a melon and an Asian apple (more like a pear), and topped with Ferrero Rocher chocolates. That was so very kind of them and made our day.

This morning we FaceTimed with one of our daughters and her two boys, until the youngest announced he was bored and wanted to watch his movie and we were taking to long. After cleaning up the apartment we went to our office to do some work, even though it is a holiday. With everything that we have had going on this week we did not have our institute lesson done. Elder Oveson wanted to check out the numbers for the Perpetual Education Fund,. It was our best month so far for collections and incentives, that sure feels great.

The Senior Couples, including President and Sister Christensen, decided to get together for dinner this evening at Fox Bistro, unfortunately Elder Leavitt had a bad foot and was not able to come, but Sister Leavitt took him dinner back with her. We love getting together with our friends, they are the next best thing to family and we won't see any family members for a while.

When we were up in Siem Reap we got the Sisters a fan hat like Sister Oveson had, we did not know what to get the Elders so we gave them a Snickers or Mars bar. It seems we are always late on giving out our Christmas gifts. We walked from the Mission Home, it was a nice evening, still in the eighties. It still gets up to the 90 degree fahrenheit during the day and the low 70s at night.