Saturday Meetings and a Khmer Wedding

Saturday is our Preparation Day when we are suppose to be able to take care of personal matters. There seem to be a lot of Saturdays that are as busy or busier than the other days of the week. Today was one of those where we did not slow down from before the sun came up until after it went down again.

The Seminary and Institute program decided that just showing up for class 75% of the time is not good enough to get credit for the class. They now have a project that they need to do, for this last semester they were to write a short essay about what they learned. Today we met with the class to discuss this project and help them with it. Since it was not an official class we figured that only about ten would come, we were pleasantly surprised to have seventeen.

We were able to Skype or FaceTime with five out of our six children this morning, we call the other one on Wednesday. It is always great to talk to them and catchup on what is happening back in Utah.

Elder Oveson's stake meeting starts at 1:00 on Saturday. Today Sister Oveson had series of Self-Reliance Training Meetings that began at 1:00 also. At 3:00 we both had the same meeting, since the Self-Reliance Training then was for the Phnom Penh South Stake.

This evening was the reception for the wedding that we went to yesterday. As we walked in we saw President Uk and his family and sat by them, that was very fortunate because they taught us a lot about the food. We actually stayed for all of the different courses of food that was brought out, a first for us. The first foods served were five different items cashews, cold chicken and kale, fish cakes, egg rolls and pigs ears. We tried them all but the pigs ear. Next they brought a beef dish with mint and garlic, which was interesting and good. The first hot dish was fish (complete with the head, tail and fins), then chicken (again with the head and legs) and a seafood dish (shrimp, octopus and vegetables). No Cambodian meal is complete without rice and they also had fried rice. There was a special Cambodian soup that included beef intestines (which we did not try). Finally was the Cambodian desert try with a variety of different jelled squares and sticky rice (including black rice that we tried). We are still completely stuffed.