Self-Reliance Banners For YSA Conference

This morning just as we got to the main Plaza that we walk around Sister Oveson spotted Sister Thurston ahead of us. With a little shout she turned around and waited for us to catch up. It is always a treat to visit with the other Senior Missionaries, she walked with us half way around the plaza before leaving us for the rest of her route.

Today we Skyped with Sister Roberts in Hong Kong and tried to Skype with Elder & Sister Harrison in Malaysia. The Harrisons live in an area where their internet connection is very poor. They have trouble getting into the Team Meetings and SRS Missionary Meetings. We were connected with them for about twelve minutes when it failed and we could not get reconnected. Elder & Sister Harrison have been in Malaysia since last August and are serving for twenty-three months also. They are from Meridian Idaho. They have nine children and fifty grandchildren. They are a wonderful couple that are a great example to us and those in their area.

We have been preparing for the YSA Conference this weekend and things are really coming together. Phanna went and picked up the large banners, two feet by five feet four inches, today and they turned out really great. They are ones that we can use in the future as well and they were really cheap only $16 a piece, including the stands. We thought that they looked so good that we decided to make them our picture for tonight.

Phnom Penh can be a very dirty city, with all of the construction going on and with no rain. Our car is parked in our apartment garage for more than half the day and the other half is at the Service Center. It is amazing how dirty it gets in less than two weeks. The car wash that we usually take it to has been closed for remodel but was back open today so we took our car to be washed. If nothing else it may encourage it to rain just to ruin the wash job. They do a very good job inside and out for only $3. That same job back home would probably be $20.