Apartment Inspections and Cupcakes

Shortly after arriving in Cambodia we recommended to Phanna and Sameth that we have a weekly Self-Reliance Services Staff Meeting. It bounced around which day was best and then what time of the day, but it finally settled in on Monday morning at 8:30. We have rotated who conducts and who has the thought, but this meeting let's us know what is the comings and goings are with everyone. To us it has become an important way to start the week. The busier we get the more important it is to meet.

This morning we also took a walk to the Mission Office and for an errand. There is a member that has a dry cleaning service that picks up at the Mission Office, so we took Elder Oveson's suit over to get cleaned. While we were out we walked to a bakery that specializes in cupcakes. We have apartment inspections and we always try to take them a treat. This will probably be the one and only time we do cupcakes, donuts are half the price and a lot bigger.

We are assigned to inspect four missionary apartments, three Elders and one Sisters. Three of the four are out in Steung Mean Chey so we want to get them all at once, which will be tomorrow. Today we did the Tuol Thom Pong Elders who are the current Zone Leaders. It was kind of hard because both are leaving the area, one is finishing his mission and headed home, the other is off to Battambang. We did tell them want needs to be finished up before they move out. They are both good missionaries and should follow through well.

Sister Oveson has decided that one thing that she has definitely learned on our mission is how to put together PowerPoint presentations. She has done more in the last eighteen months than in her whole life previously. She has become a pro on bandaging pictures that need just a little touch up here or there.