Saturday Morning Institute

Saturday morning Institute class has become one of our favorite weekly activities. We began teaching these students about a month after our arrival in the mission, picking up in the middle of the Doctrine and Covenants course. We joked at that time that we had six in our class, but it was a different six each week. There were really about ten listed on the roll at that time.

As we have continued our weekly course, we have since taught Principles of Leadership, Jesus Christ and the Everlasting Gospel, Foundations of the Restoration, and now we just finished Teachings and Doctrine of the Book of Mormon.

With each course change we have announced the start of the new class. Our numbers have grown to an amazing attendance of over 20 each week. This growth didn't happen overnight. We have nurtured this little group and asked them to invite their friends. Then we had the inspiration to send them an email in the middle of the week with notes from the last lesson and reminding them to come again. After a few months of this routine we thought the mid-week reminder was not enough, so on Mondays we started writing "We missed you" email notes to those who were absent. We are amazed at how many new students continue to trickle in. Even today, the last class of the course (which was a review and "Elevate Learning Activity", we had a new student attend and participate).

What a great group of people to be associated with! We have been so blessed to teach (and learn from) this amazing group of young people, who are moving forward to become fantastic leaders in Cambodia.

Let's just say, we are blessed!