Family Home Evening with Bishop Om

Today was the Service Center Devotional, each week a different department is assigned to do the training. Today But LumAng from the Translation Department taught about stress and how to control it. He has studied to be a medical doctor so it felt very natural for him to teach about how stress can affect us. We were able to spend more time at our office getting caught up on things we have neglected lately.  It feels like the longer we are here the more stuff that we have to do on a regular basis, and of course there are always the irregular things to do also.

We left the office a little early as we were invited to Family Home Evening with Bishop Om and his wife of the Chaktomuk Ward. As Sister Larsen and Sister Sheffield called to give the invitation they said the bishop was almost giggling with excitement that we might come to visit them for FHE. We prepared a short message on the Temple to share tonight. We think the sisters were almost as excited! We enjoy the young missionaries and look forward to being with them whenever we are able.

We had a very nice visit with the bishop, his wife and their daughter (and their cute little dog). The three of them went to the temple in 2014. They are working toward going back again. The bishop is working with the ward members, encouraging them to prepare and go to the temple as well.  After the lesson and treats came out, that dog was insistently giving "Sampeah" saying "soom" (Please)!

As we go around this city we find so many different things. Today's different picture was a large tree moving down the road. We first saw it as we started out on our walk. We saw it again as we were headed back toward the apartment. It looked like they must have been trying to find how to get around the narrow roads and low hanging wires to get to wherever they were going. The last we saw it was stopped under some of those low wires as men in the back were trying to lift the wires enough to free them to move forward. This was just one more evidence of not enough planning on so many levels.