New Mission in Vietnam! Congratulations President and Sister Hassell!

As we woke this morning we found an interesting email with a link to a press release today announcing three new missions. One of which is Vietnam, being split off from the Cambodia Phnom Penh Mission. The news report even named the new mission president and his wife as President Lewis Hassell and Sister Mary Bliss Hassell. We can't say we were completely surprised, although we had not heard anything leading up to this. When we met Elder and Sister Hassell as they arrived in the Cambodia Phnom Penh Mission in May, we sensed they were here not just as missionaries, but to prepare the way for a mission in Vietnam. Today's announcement proved our intuitions to be correct.

We didn't make it to the office this morning, instead we Skyped with Sister Roberts in Hong Kong, then headed to Steung Mean Chey for Zone Training. When we arrived we found no missionaries, and THEN noticed a message on the phone that the meeting was changed to the South Stake building.  Okay, so we went back across to the South building and met with the South Zone.

We left the training early because we had an appointment to meet with missionaries in the North Zone at noon, which meant heading across town to the North West. We put this group of young missionaries on task with a project in their area, then headed out again.

We ate a quick lunch at Mike's Burgers, then drove back to Steung Mean Chey for a wedding. The ceremony was scheduled for 2:00 this afternoon, but the bride and groom were not even there at that time. It finally started about 3:15, and lasted until about 4:30. We made our exit as soon as we could, as we still needed to go to our office to pick up all the things we need for Institute in the morning.

Can we just say we had a long week today! And tomorrow?!? It looks like it is stacking pretty tight. At least most of the destinations for tomorrow are at the South Stake building.