Why We Have Computers And The Internet

As we started this week today looked like a fairly mild day, one Skype call with a Self-Reliance Missionary that is a dear friend, that was it. As the week went on today got fuller and fuller and fuller. First was a Self-Reliance Operation Meeting (Perpetual Education Fund training), for an hour. Then we added a Google Hangout call with our family members to discuss some important family matters. Today while we were on the video call with our family, the Asia Area Manager asked if we had time to Skype right after the Operation Meeting. Then the Operation Manager asked if we had time for some training via Skype this afternoon. Add on top of that working with the IT in Thailand to get our laptop so that it liked logging into two very important websites that we use on a regular basis.

The bottomline is that today would have been a very boring and mild day if we did not have computers, the internet and if we did not get to work with others here in Asia. More than once we have heard leaders in the Church say that computers and the internet are part of the tools provided for the Church to move forward in our time. For years Elder Oveson thought they were around to making accounting so much easier than the old ledger books. It is nice to have a more enlightened understanding of some of the wonderful inventions that we are blessed with today. Man has been here on this earth for a long time, but it has only been over the last 150+ years that technology has blossomed. We do not feel that it is just accidental or coincidence that has happened. We need all of these tools if the gospel is going to go to all of the world as we have been told it will. Of course Satan will always try and take wonderful and beautiful blessings and make them foul and awful. That only works if we allow that, we can still make technology what it was meant to be. (Hopefully that was not too preachy, but this is a missionary blog.)

This blog is about our mission and our adventures in Cambodia, but there is an important part of our lives that we left back in Utah, our family. We try not to be like the parents that feel their children can do no wrong, but we do want share when we are proud of them. Over the last week we have watched our children deal with family matters that we would be handling if we were home. Some day we will leave this earth life and we know that they will carry on just fine.