We Love Technology

Technology plays an important part of our day, from the alarm clock that gets us up and going for the day, to being connected to Church headquarters at the office, and even to our evening activity of writing in our blog. We are so blessed to live in a time when the world has been blessed in so many ways and we are the beneficiaries of that technology.

We "Google Hangout" with Chris, Melissa and Lizzy (our son and his little family) on Wednesday morning. We have been calling them at 8:00 a.m. Phnom Penh time, but with daylight savings time having started last Sunday in the U.S. we now call at 7:00 a.m. That means we have to hurry on our walk, so that we can shower and be ready to call. We love talking to our family back home and look forward to each call. We finally measured our walk and it is 2.6 kilometers, which sounds a lot more than 1.6 miles.

A couple of weeks ago when we talked with Elder Oveson's siblings and their spouses we did not get to talk to Carol and Louis because Carol was ill. This morning we FaceTimed with them and their daughter Maryann. It was good to see them and talk to them.

Even though we are on the other side of the world the main computer that we tie into for the Perpetual Education Fund is in the U.S. With the internet most days that is alright, but there are times that the system is so slow we can walk away for a minute while waiting for it to respond. Today we had to look up the status of several of the PEF participants and Elder Oveson helped Sameth review renewal loans before they were submitted.

We also worked on our Institute lesson and Education for Better Work on line. That is the best way for us to decide what we are going to teach before we create our final document to teach from. Since we are using the English version for both classes there are times we need to simplify the words that are used.