Farewell Dinner For Elder & Sister VanBrocklin

This morning we had to take our Corolla out to the Toyota dealership by 8:30 a.m. Since it is impossible to know how long traffic will take we gave ourselves forty-five minutes. Fortunately it only took a half hour, but the Office Elders who were taking the other Corolla in had already come and gone. We had the BYU/UofU Tuk-Tuk pick us up there and take us back to our office.

We have been working on a PowerPoint presentation about Delegation for a couple of months, with the help of the other Senior Self-Reliance Missionaries. Today we did the final touches that our Area Manager wanted and it was sent out to all of the Self-Reliance staff here in Asia. It feels nice to have a large project done and to feel that we gave it our very best. We definitely learned more about what delegation is really all about by doing this project.

This afternoon the Toyota Dealership was supposed to bring the new Avanza to us at our office. At first they promised it would be there by 5:00 which switched to that they would be there by 5:30. The biggest advantage to the new vehicle is that it is six inches higher off of the ground, it seemed like we were always bottoming out in the Corolla. The new vehicle does not have all of the bells and whistles and is actually the bottom of the line, but we did not expect to have a car, so we are happy with anything.

Our dear friends, Elder & Sister VanBrocklin, will head home from their mission next Tuesday night, we have been here together for sixteen and a half months. We will truly miss them. Most of the Senior Couples here in Phnom Penh (Elder & Sister Jones were not able to make it) and Elder & Sister Curtis from Kampong Cham, went out for a farewell dinner this evening. We went to the Patio/Elephant Sky Bar and Grill, the view is wonderful and the food is good.  It is always wonderful to be with the other Senior Couples.