A Most Unusual Tuesday

Today was a very different Tuesday than usual. The church employees had Human Resource visitors from Hong Kong for this whole week, and today was a big all day meeting for them. We knew that would make our corner of the office extremely quiet but we still planned to spend part of the day at the office, then attend the District Meeting with the young missionaries. This afternoon Elder Oveson had scheduled a follow-up appointment with an eye specialist.

So we got up and took our walk (which was pretty normal), but before we headed to the office we noticed an email scheduling a monthly phone visit with Elder Boam at Church Headquarters for 8:00 a.m. We figured this is an easier call to make from home. We enjoy talking to Elder Boam, giving monthly reports on the senior missionaries in the Asia area. We are learning so much from each of the Self-Reliance couples and are happy to pass it along, then we learn more from Elder Boam as to our responsibilities as communications couple.

We finished that call just before 9:00, and instead of heading to the office where we would be working all alone, we worked from our apartment watching a BYU Idaho CES training, followed by a Church employee Leadership Patterns Devotional. We had been assigned to watch both of these for our Asia Area Self-Reliance team training. These were both very insightful!

After lunch we finally made our way to the office. Since everything was still very quiet we spent time working on our Institute lesson for next Saturday. We had been there about a half hour when Elder and Sister Jones, the new Family History couple, came in  along with a visitor from India, looking for  Tay, the Facilities Manager, who was in the big meeting. We were able to share some useful information with the Joneses. They were just ready to leave and come back another time to find Tay when people came out of the meeting for a ten minute break. It is all in the timing!

And the afternoon eye appointment? We followed the instructions to find the medical office at the Children's Surgical Center North of the city, across the Japanese bridge, missed the street, turned around and telephoned the number on the instructions. We finally found the little alley and the clinic just to learn the doctor was in a meeting at the Ministry of Health and Medicine. We rescheduled for tomorrow, but the office we really were to visit is about half as far. Now we have another adventure scheduled for tomorrow!

Our photo for the day includes several children sleeping in the park (our favorite is the young boy holding his money), the wedding tent across from the park, and a giant clock we drove past at Wat Phnom on our way to the appointment adventure.