Experiencing Water And Power Outages

Every so often we are reminded that even though we may have a very nice apartment we are still in a third world nation, with third world issues. Yesterday morning as we went to shower we did not have very good water pressure. We mentioned it to the apartment manager and she told us it was a pump problem, but that it was fixed. Since we have a very small washer we do some laundry every night, last night it was towels. The batch made it half way through and the washer started dinging that there was a problem, turned out to be no water at all. That meant we started our day today getting that batch rewashed before we headed to the office. Thankfully there was water this morning.

Tuesday morning is devoted to meetings. There is the Service Center Devotional that starts at 8:30 a.m. and can go for two plus hours, and District Meeting that starts at 10:00 and usually goes an our and a half. We decided to go to both of them today, that meant that we ducked out of the Service Center Devotional early. There is a new donut place in town, Krispy Kreme, just down the street from Big Apple Donuts. Since we do not make it to District Meeting very often we decided to treat the young missionaries today. There are three districts that meet at the South Stake Center, a total of twenty-two missionaries, so we had to buy two dozen donuts. We are always so impressed by the District Meetings and the strength of these valiant servants of the Lord.

As we sat working away at our desk a little after noon Rick Page, the Area General Council, stuck his head in and asked if we wanted to go to lunch. He was buying and there was a group of the managers and employees going. We went to Tonle Bassac II, the buffet that we have been to several times in the past. Going to lunch gave us the opportunity to sit across from Rick and to get to know him better.

To add to our third world experience this afternoon, the power at the Service Center kept going off and on. They have a generator to compensate for that, but it kicks on shortly after the power goes off and back off when the power comes back on. It probably cycled about ten different times, we gave up on turning the computers back on until it cleared up all the way.

Later this afternoon Sea Samnang, the Service Center Manager, came and brought us tickets to a gathering put on by the Ministry of Cults and Religions that will be this Friday. We have been to a couple of these meetings in the past and they are very interesting, we were honored to be invited and we even have VIP passes.