Friday, Again?

The weeks are flying by. We are sure we just wrote about Friday yesterday or the day before, yet here we are most of the way through another Friday here in Cambodia.

We started the morning by cancelling our walk and joining a family council via Google Hangouts. It still is amazing that we can talk to people on the other side of the world with a simple connection, no additional fees. When our daughter was on her mission in Brazil it was a major expense to talk to her on Mother's Day or Christmas. Our family is able to talk to us every week. It takes a little planning for the short window of time when they are just finishing up one day and we are getting started on the next.

It seems there are more projects, assignments, and reports that have been finding their way onto our To-Do-List. We have lesson plans for our weekly Institute class to prepare, a presentation for a Symposium in Battambang in two weeks on The Value of Work,  a PowerPoint lesson to present in a Service Center Devotional the first part of September, the internet meeting with the Asia Area Senior Missionaries, and another PowerPoint and training we need to prepare for Self-Reliance Managers in Thailand the middle of September. Each of these presentations are very different, so we can't just prepare one and use it for all. We are having a lot of practice in preparing PowerPoint presentations. We just didn't realize that was one of the skills we were coming to Cambodia to refine.

When we moved our office to the Service Center last December there was a bulletin board next to Elder Oveson's desk that was completely with papers. It took a few weeks for it to be moved to the new area where Neth's desk had moved, with all the papers still attached. Today that bulletin board was put in order. She discovered in the cleanup how much was no longer needed.

The other photos today were from our different ventures throughout this city. We especially like the very Khmer look of the woman top right. The laid back posture was an added touch, topping of the color coordination of the outfit.


And finally, we received the exciting announcement today. Sameth and his wife Thida welcomed a new baby girl into their family today. We can hardly wait to get to meet this new little one.