PowerPoint Projects and Previews

Our PowerPoint presentations are coming together quite well, but we are still a little overwhelmed with so many things needing to be completed at the same time. Today was a preview run for the Thailand presentation as we met with the Asia Area Self-Reliance missionaries for our monthly internet meeting. It was a bit of a scramble to do the finishing touches before 10:30 a.m. meeting, getting the transitions and animation completed just a few minutes before we logged in to the meeting. The meeting started with internet difficulties, but after the opening prayer things seemed to stabilize and we completed the meeting with minimum difficulties. There were a total of ten connections with Chad Furness in Taiwan, the Asia Area Self-Reliance Manager, and Elder Grant Wayne Boam from Headquarters in Salt Lake City connected with us, as well as missionaries in Thailand, India, Malaysia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and us in Cambodia. It was our best couples meeting yet!

Getting the one PowerPoint ready to present today was only the beginning. Saturday we will be teaching an Institute class on Scripture Study then heading out to Battambang where we will be participating in a Self-Reliance Symposium and making a presentation on "The Value of Work". Phanna has translated these slides into Khmer, but we still are working on the talking behind the slides and how we want to present it. The three projects took us the entire day, and we are not finished yet! We need to have two of them all polished and ready to go before quitting time on Friday. The third we have a little bit of time for finishing touches on it. In the meantime we will also have more Institute lessons and one more PowerPoint for a Service Center Devotional. One thing is certain, we have now add several PowerPoint presentations to our portfolio, and we may have need of these again after we return home.

Near the end of the day Sameth came to invite us to join a party. He has been facilitating an Education For Better Work group and today was the final lesson. He figures he will have 8 of the 11 participants who will have earned certificates for successfully completing their course, including keeping commitments as they work to be more Self-Reliant.

Our other pictures today show the progress on a building make-over we walk by every day. This is transitioning from a Villa to a Bank, and it looks like it will be done before the end of the year. The huge load of giant bags would be recycle goods loaded about 12 to 15 feet high and bulging width as well. One of the many unusual things that are very common in Cambodia.