Back to Our Sunday Routine

It was good to be back to our Sunday routine of attending two wards. We missed them, and we were asked in both wards where we were for the past two weeks. Transfers brought two new faces to Steung Mean Chey 3rd ward. Sister Clark has Sister Peng from Battambang as her new companion, and Elder Maurer now has Elder Stringham from South Jordan as his companion.

Having been away for two week it was interesting to see the progress on the remodel and addition to the Church building. We will have to see how it looks in six months from now when we finish our mission.

As we headed to church there was a funeral procession headed into a wat. It took long enough to get the camera that we only got one photo.

Chaktomuk Ward didn't have missionary changes, but we learned today that we missed a baptism. We attended the Gospel Essentials class for Sunday School. The teacher is a recent convert, and we are impressed with how he presents the lesson. This class includes the few Young Men and Young Women of the ward, as well as all the YSA and recent converts. There were 24 including the six missionaries assigned to the ward. That is more than would have been in the Gospel Doctrine class today.

With Brenda and Marla here last week we decided that we would change "our" Fast Sunday to this week. Over the years we have felt the spiritual and temporal benefits of fasting. Since we attend two wards we pay Fast Offering to both, we are sure that it is used wisely.