Our Amazing Monday

As we took our walk this morning we talked about what we had on our schedule today and we could only remember the Self-Reliance Team weekly staff meeting. After last week we were looking forward to a slower Monday. Before we ever left home Sameth called to say that his moto was broke so he would be late, that pushed back the staff meeting.

Last Friday afternoon we had a couple potential appointments for today, but we did not hear back on either one of them, so we decided to check on them first thing this morning. It was a good thing that we checked because they completely filled our afternoon.

The mission is looking at trading in three vehicles and getting four different ones. We have one of two Corollas and they are so low that we scrape bottom almost everyday, pulling into a parking space or a garage. We had to take our car to the Toyota dealership to have it inspected for trade in value. It is so hard to know what traffic will be like so we gave ourselves 50 minutes for a trip that should take 30 minutes. It was good that we did because it took forty minutes to get there.

As soon as we got back from the Toyota dealership Elder Oveson went with Phanna to an appointment. We have been talking to a company that has a call center here and will be hiring more employees in the near future. They have partnered with a school that wants to train the Perpetual Education Fund (PEF) participants for these future jobs. We have to decide if the training will lead to a self-reliant job and is worth the cost. It was a great appointment and we got lots of questions answered but there are still more that we need answered.

Last Monday's blog about our little trip to Hong Kong became our most viewed page on our blog. We feel humbled and blessed to have so many family and friends that cared so much and checked in on us.

We only took two pictures today so we are doing another random Khmer collage today, including the various sky-scapes.