Happy Birthday with Senior Couples

This morning as we left our apartment we were delayed by a group who stopped with a funeral vehicle for pictures, totally blocking our little road. Not only did they block traffic coming out of our alley, but they put a crimp on the traffic flowing down the other street. We commented as we finally made our way past that they had their timing set to really snarl the morning commute. We were glad to get past as quickly as we did before they started their procession.

The day at the office was quite a typical Monday, ... the printer was chronically jammed, staff meeting to discuss Self-Reliance and PEF, start preparing for Saturday's Institute lesson, with peanut butter and Nutella sandwiches for lunch.

Dinner tonight was spent with all the Senior missionaries at a new restaurant for us, The Patio. The view of the city was great, and it is always wonderful to be surrounded by so many friends.

Elder and Sister Hollenzer completed their mission last July, having served as the Family History couple. While they were here there was a BYU Family History project just  moving through the planning stages to record oral histories of some of the people here. Ken returned to Cambodia for a two week stay to work on this project, but unfortunately Salli had other commitments and was not able to come. Today was his birthday, so we gathered with all the senior couples for dinner. He told us he was grateful to be able to return to so many friends here. It made it much easier to travel around the world to a foreign country and not feel alone. Tonight we celebrated the February birthdays for Ken Hollenzer (the 15th), Elder Oveson (the 24th), and Elder Meinzer (the 26th).