Elder Oveson's Mother's Birthday and Our Moving Experience

Elder Oveson's mother, who passed away a little over three years ago, was born on February 29th, but her birth certificate said March 1st. His siblings went out to dinner to celebrate her birthday on the 29th in the U.S., which is March 1st here in Cambodia, so we decided to FaceTime with them. What a fun time to see and talk to Ken & Janet, Bob & Barbara, Debbie & Jim and David & Julie. Carol was not feeling well so we did not get to talk to Carol & Louis. We live in such a marvelous time when we can talk to each other instantaneously from around the world.

Today was our moving day to the new apartment. As we began to bring stuff down to the car the staff at our old apartment was very surprised, they had not been told that we were moving. Elder Oveson hurried and called the Mission Office to make sure that we would not have any problems with the landlord, thankfully everything went just fine. We thought that the mission had arranged for a truck to help us move, but when they showed up they said that they were told it was a small move so they had a tuk-tuk. That should not have surprised us, because they can move almost anything in a tuk-tuk.

There will be things that we will miss about our old apartment, like the large kitchen cabinets, but there are things that we like about the new place already. We were amazed how much we had to move above and beyond the stuff that would have fit into our suitcases. Likewise, we are sure that we are getting way too old to move. Today was very hard on these old bodies and we are hurting in places that tell us how old we really are.

We did make it to the office for a little bit today, only about two hours, but we were very busy the whole time that we were there. As we went to leave the Meinzers asked if we wanted to go to dinner at the Vietnamese restaurant that is just around the corner from the Service Center. It is always great to go out with the other Senior Couples.

This evening we were invited to do some training with the International Branch related to the Area Training Meeting on keeping the Sabbath Day holy. We kept it sweet and to the point, but we felt that it went really well. Today has been another adventure in Cambodia.