Driving To Battambang Another New Experience

We had a new experience for our Cambodian adventure today, we drove from Phnom Penh to Battambang. We have been in a van from Battambang to Phnom Penh once but we have never driven that route before today. We had a My Path Devotional that started at 3:30 and then a Symposium that started at 5:45. This is the event that we have been preparing the PowerPoint presentation for this last week. There were 26 members, many of them leaders, that came to the My Path Devotional and 32 that were to the Symposium.

This morning we also started the new short course for Institute on Studying the Scriptures. We were thrilled to have twenty-six show up for the class today. With the Church being so new here in Cambodia we never really know how much to expect they know when we ask questions in class. We were thrilled as we asked what is the first step of studying the scriptures and they answered to pray. Even back in Utah we are sure that some would have said to read, but they have been taught well in the past about the importance of praying before they read. It is also great to hear their thought provoking questions as we go through class. We are sure that many of these wonderful participants will be leaders in the Church here in Cambodia in the future.

One thing about going out to the Kaits is more picture opportunities and that was very true again today. It is always interesting to see a moto on top of a load on a truck, but then to add some one sitting on the moto adds to the photo moment. We traveled behind a truck with three young adult men perched high on the load, and we watched the police wave them over to the side of the road. We had to stop and pickup Phanna to ride with us, so that truck got past us again, but the next time we saw it the three were significantly lower on the load. The trees hang low enough over the road that it looks like we are going through an archway, very interesting.