Service Center Farewell Lunch For The Meinzers

The Meinzers have been part of the Service Center for the last eighteen months, and they have grown to truly love the staff that works there. Next week most of the staff will be gone all week with the Khmer New Year celebration, so today the Meinzers treated the whole staff to lunch at the Tonle Bassac II restaurant. We had three tables of about eight or so to each table for the group. They have set a very high standard now for missionary couples as they go home, we will most likely do the same thing in about nine months.

Our new assignment kicked in today with several emails from Chad to us and emails from us to the other SRS missionaries. We have a video call with all of them on the 20th and Chad wanted our suggestion for the agenda. Likewise we want to get to know the others better, so we sent out a basic questionnaire asking for the most important facts. Like how many grandchildren they have.

This week we have struggled a little with the preparation for our Institute Class, most weeks the lessons are great and applicable. This week we were supposed to teach about the Utah War and Mountain Meadow Massacre. Cambodia went through a brutal massacre of their own people by Pol Pot and over 25% of the population were killed. We decided to teach them about the Mormon Pioneers instead and that they are modern day Pioneers. That meant we had to do more of our own lesson preparation. We only hope and pray that it will go well.

With our walk this morning we have now made it four weeks in a row, a good start to an important habit. Elder Leavitt told us that he saw us this morning when he was walking but we were too far away and did not hear him. Sister Leavitt twisted her ankle a week ago and is still nursing it back, so she did not go with him this morning. Our morning walks are truly a good way to start the day.