"Rastaurant", SRO and Little Ants

It is so fun thinking back over this last year. Just a year ago we were trying to learn a little Khmer so that when we got here we could say hello, goodbye and bathroom. It feels like our language skills have not improved much, other than the people say we speak very clearly. That is probably okay because our call said that we would be speaking English on our mission. In many ways that is good so that the full-time employees we work with know that we are not here to take away their jobs. We are here to be the wind beneath their wings.

It continues to feel like the Service Center staff appreciates that we are there and ask for our help in different ways. Today the Service Center Manager came to Sister Oveson to ask with help changing some of the framed posters on our floor. They still have the Area Vision from 2013 posted and he wants it updated to the one we were given last Saturday. She was more than willing to help.

We have been at the Service Center for almost two months and Elder Oveson had not completely gone through the stuff that got moved with us. He spent some time this afternoon organizing his area, he even found some empty folders Sister Oveson had been looking for. We definitely feel settled into our new area and are happy to serve wherever the Lord would have us.

Our photo for today is more random Khmer pictures. We pass a "Rastaurant" on our commute home. The truck loaded with people has at least 50 in it, definitely Standing Room Only. A young man eating his snack on the way home. One thing that is very Khmer that a picture would not do just in showing are all of the little ants. We keep our apartment very clean but all that you have to do is slip up and leave something out and they find it. Elder Oveson left a wrapped cough drop on the counter and they got into it. We love the people and dislike the ants.