Seniors, Dinners, and Birthdays!

Another week has come and gone. We continue to work on Self-Reliance and PEF, along with preparing for a move, and celebrating birthdays, among other various activities.

We were missing our daughter, Wendy, again today as Sister Oveson was in need of another haircut. The French Element salon has become our reliable back-up for this job. Their prices are a bit more, but Jerome is very meticulous in shaping each layer. We were pleased with the cut and style.

Today was Elder Meinzer's birthday (we joke that he is now 87), so we had another Senior Missionary gathering for dinner, visiting another new restaurant. This one, Black Bamboo, happens to be right next door to the Cambodia Service Center. That was convenient because we didn't have to find a new address (which is usually an adventure all by itself), and we didn't have to fine a parking space (another adventure). Addresses are not laid out here like they are back home. There is a house number, but it has no correlation to the street numbers. And we have mentioned the lack of parking is often problematic here.

Elder and Sister VanBrocklin were missing from our group as they were on a Public Affairs assignment in Vietnam. The new Vietnam Hanoi mission officially gets underway on Tuesday, March 1st. President and Sister Christensen returned to Cambodia today after one last quick trip  completing a final hand-off and the last transfers of missionaries between the two countries.