Not Your Typical Friday

Our days and weeks continue to bring variety to our life. It has been a while since we have had a week or even a day we could define as typical, and that was definitely not today. The one activity we could call typical was our morning walk, but even there we saw some not so typical things.

There were three Skype calls scheduled for this morning, which we tend to have better connection from home. One of them will need to be rescheduled, but the extra time gave us a chance to check on things with family back home. After talking with missionaries in Malaysia and Hong Kong we finally headed to the office at 11:30. By that time our email boxes were pretty full. We took care of our correspondence, ate lunch, read our scriptures, and went through our Institute lesson. 

At 2:20 we told Sameth we were following the LIFO method today.... Last In First Out! One of Elder Oveson's former clients, Diane Card, is an attorney and just happens to be in Cambodia this week on business for the Church. We promised to take her out to the Killing Fields for the afternoon and then to the airport. She will spend the weekend up in Siem Reap, then be back in town on Monday for more meetings. We will try to get together with her again on Monday or Tuesday before she flies back to Utah.

Traffic out of the city was not very promising, but with patience we made it to the Cheung Ek Killing Fields Memorial with plenty of time for a visit. Today was our fourth visit there. As difficult as it is to listen to the stories of the Pol Pot era and the many lives so brutally taken, it is part of the history of Cambodia during our lifetime. 

Rain started to fall as we left the Killing Fields and headed toward the airport. It took less time to get to the airport than we thought it would, but leaving the airport made up for it. There must have been heavier rains around the airport this afternoon judging from the 6+ inch deep puddles and standing water in the road. We had a quick dinner at Brooklyn and were glad to head home, tired from another busy day.