A Long Short Time & Package From Home

It is very surreal as we travel around Phnom Penh and think back to a year ago when we were brand new to Cambodia. A year ago Elder & Sister Powell were here training us and we were visiting the District and Stake Self-Reliance Committees and training them. Sister Oveson recently shared with a Sister Missionary that it has been the longest shortest time of our lives. We have memories of a year ago that seem like just last month, but it also feels like we have been here a lot longer than a year plus.

This evening we went to dinner with the Van Brocklins and Meinzers, as we were talking we all had to agree that being in Cambodia has been a real adventure. We have all learned so much about this part of the world that is just so fascinating and hard to explain with words in a blog. It is important to remember that just because they do things different than we do back home that does not mean we are right and they are wrong and visa versa.

Our daughters sent us a care package of needed items almost three weeks ago, so we have anxiously been waiting for it to arrive. We saw the Church employee from the Mission Office today and told him that we were blaming him about our package not having arrived yet. A couple of hours later he called us from the Post Office and said that it had arrived and asked if he should bring it to us. We told hm that we had errands to run and would pick it up at the Mission Office later. Hopefully we did not scare him too bad when we were teasing him.

We really do love and appreciate those packages from home. We even got a special note from one of our granddaughters in the package today. We are now set for prescription eye drops, contact lens supplies, after shave and goodies for another couple of months.