Greater Appreciation For a Bed To Sleep On

It feels like Monday has become one of the busiest days of the week for us. We usually have only one item on our calendar, our weekly Self-Reliance Staff Meeting, but the day just fills in both before and after that meeting. That is exactly what happened to us today, but most of it just kind of happened and then we did our best to take care of the issues.

Almost a year ago Phanna asked Elder Oveson if he knew what SWOT was, the only thing he could think of was what he did with the pesky mosquitoes here in Cambodia. After an internet search they found out that it stood for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. It is amazing how many new acronyms come into use every year, the newest and best practices to do. As a self-reliance team we had to analyze the SWOT for self-reliance for each stake and district in our area. Since it has been a year we had to update our SWOT again today.

Sister Oveson has been working on a project to help us learn more of the hymns in Khmer (Cambodian). When we got to Cambodia we found a small paperback hymnbook that had been Romanized. We were thrilled to have something that helped us at least attempt to sing the same words as the congregation. Over the last year we have learned that the translation of the hymns have gone through several revisions. Sister Oveson is now trying to get at least a few of them Romanized better to match the current hymnbook. We will then work on learning them every day.

This evening we had our Skype Self-Reliance Group with My in Vietnam. She is absolutely amazing, we wish that we had the faith and willingness to follow that she has. Each week there are commitments that she is suppose to keep, including sharing the concepts that she is taught with others. It is wonderful to hear about the doors that are opened to allow her to keep those commitments.

In previous pictures of the day we have shown some of the places that we have seen people sleeping, including benches, on the ground, in Tuk Tuks, etc. This morning we saw a very unique one, a man perched on the seat of his moto sound asleep.