New Adventure: Visiting the Cambodian Dairy Farm

Several months ago, back in August, as we were sitting in our office there was a young couple who stopped by to see who might be there. Kenny Matthews had served a mission in Cambodia, returned home, and had recently been married. He and his new wife had just returned to Cambodia to start a dairy, and for his wife to teach school at the Zion school. This has been a slow process, but Kenny's dream is finally moving toward fulfillment.

Forward to today and the dairy is moving forward in the test phase. They have purchased twelve cows and have created a cattle barn in a rented warehouse. Five of the cows have delivered calves with the rest progressing that direction. They plan on starting milking the cows in about two or three weeks. Their concept is still growing, but they will probably work toward milk delivery.

With the dairy in operation we arranged to visit today, along with Elder and Sister VanBrocklin. They picked us up at 10:00 a.m. and we took a drive to Ta Khmau to check out the new dairy. We will probably go visit again when they are closer to production. For now it was good to see that they are keeping it clean, and to watch the little ones as they played in the sand and straw.

After stopping for lunch on our way back into town when we got back to the office no one was in sight.  It seemed all the employees were in the conference room in a meeting so we were alone in our area. This made for a very quiet afternoon.