Counseling Together and Raining Season

Over the years the leaders of the Church have taught the importance of counseling together. In recent training we have even been taught the importance of writing emails and letters by committee, that old adage of two brains are better than one. As we have served here in Cambodia, working together 24/7, we have truly seen the wisdom of counseling together not only about our assigned service but in all aspects of our lives.

We were recently asked if we have been married long enough that we just know what the other spouse is thinking. The answer to that is absolutely no. Whenever we get to that point we find that our communication is suffering tremendously. So an important part of counseling together is sharing and listening. We have even found that we are able to counsel with our family on issues even though we are over 8,000 miles from home. The miracle of the internet is amazing.

In September we have been invited to attend the Asia Self-Reliance Services Manager Training that will take place in Chiang Mai Thailand. We are not only invited to attend but to put on one of the presentations for about an hour and a half. Since we will be representing the other Self-Reliance Services Missionaries, we decided to ask them for some help in putting together our presentation. We sent out an email today asking for their input in several areas and we plan on sharing those responses with the managers. We hope that their comments will help the Managers with ideas on how to effectively use the missionaries assigned to their country.

A while ago we mentioned that Cambodia was in a real drought and to pray for rain. They usually have what is called the raining season that starts in April, but this year it started later than usual. Most days it does cloud over and we get some rain but we have not had the real heavy flooding rain that we had last year. That may be because we moved and the road in front of our new place does not flood like the one at our previous apartment. And the heaviest rain came in August of last year so it may still be coming. Tonights picture shows how the people here deal with the rain.