Learning From & With The Other Senior Couples

Over the years we have learned that blessed are the flexible for they shall not get bent out of shape. Today's session of the Senior Couples Conference was suppose to be at the Service Center in the Conference Room. We went over early to the Service Center with the Thurstons to do a little work before the conference, and found the Conference Room full of the Translation Department having a meeting. We quickly called Sister Christensen to change the meeting to the Mission Office.

One of the problems with a Senior Couple Conference is that there are so many things to talk about that it is almost impossible to get everything done. Sister Christensen had a beautiful agenda for today's meeting along with how much time each item was suppose to take. It did not take long to be behind, and some items got completely skipped, but it was a great conference.

One of our favorite parts was the Sister Training Leaders, Sister Larsen and Sister Sheffield, who shared some cultural dos and don'ts with us. We have not had any formal training on what to do and what not to do prior to coming to Cambodia, that is something that they do with the young missionaries at the MTC. It was good to see and understand some of those important cultural traditions. They also shared with us how much the young missionaries enjoy working with the Senior Couples.

President Christensen shared the state of the mission in a little bit different way than he did at the Zone Conferences. The statistics were interesting to see and to better understand. There were also several presentations by some of the Senior Couples and a counselor in the Mission Presidency.

This evening we all took a Tuk-Tuk ride to the river to catch a dinner cruise. As we got in the Tuk-Tuks it looked like it might rain, but as we got to the boat and left it was a beautiful evening. It was a great time to just chat with the other couples and enjoy a meal out on the river. That may be the only time we take the dinner cruise, but it was definitely worth the cost, because of the opportunity to be with all of the other Senior Missionaries.