Self-Reliance Team Meetings and a Little More Rain

After two days of pushing back our Cambodia Self-Reliance Team meeting (first for a holiday, then for other meetings and apartment inspections), we finally managed to get together to coordinate our week.  We have found these weekly meeting are crucial to having everything go smoothly with Self-Reliance. Sameth came to realize that with all the holidays this month he would need to spend about seven hours each day just making phone calls to make contact with all the "High-Priority Calls." Maybe this is the week Sameth needed to clone himself. Either that or we need to speak more Khmer and make more of the calls.

Our biggest event today was our monthly web meeting with the Asia Area Self-Reliance missionaries. We were pleased that everyone we expected was able to log in and participate. Our team call included Elder and Sister Little in India, Elder and Sister Chandler and Sister Roberts in Hong Kong, Elders and Sisters Harrison and Elder and Sister Rasmussen in Malaysia, and us Cambodia. Missing our meeting today were Elder and Sister Ricks in Thailand, and the Asia Area Self-Reliance Manager, Chad Furness,  who is traveling this week and will be in Cambodia tomorrow.  The power went down two or three times, but we had managed to get our laptop connected in the call and the WiFi has a battery backup so we never lost the meeting.

One nice surprise of the day was hearing thunder followed by a steady rain. Someone opened the window in our office to enjoy the wonderful clean smell in the air.  On our way home from the office Elder Oveson commented that the temperature was 27* C (80* F). Yesterday was 39 * C (102* F). We enjoyed the cooler temperatures and a little water dripping from the sky. We are not complaining today!