Time Flies for Hellos and Goodbyes

Another week is in the history books. It would seem time is moving faster all the time. It was brought to our attention that President and Sister Moon completed their mission over eight months ago. Elder and Sister Meinzer are nearing the completion of their mission. Three weeks from tomorrow their replacements will arrive in Cambodia, so the Meinzers have been looking through their office, organizing what needs to stay and getting rid of what doesn't. Before we know it they will be gone and we will continue to move forward. They are the other Senior Couple that offices at the Service Center. They are usually on the road checking out the various projects that LDS Charities has going. We have told them that we could sublease their office to someone and they would never know it.

Our office was pretty quiet today. We didn't have any major projects to complete. Phanna has been in Taiwan for training all week which contributed to the how calm things were in our little corner of the service center.

We have decided for language study we will learn the Khmer words to some of the hymns. We are starting simple with the song "I Know My Father Lives". We are hoping this will give us a new resource to build our skills of understanding. We came to the conclusion that just learning a list of words is not enough. The Cambodian language is a building-block language. So many of the words are used in combinations that change the meaning. We receive compliments on how well we speak. We figure if we speak the same 20 words enough we can be fluent in those 20 words.