Leadership Pattern: Act Under the Direction of the Spirit

Have you ever wondered what to do when you have a flat tire on your Tuk Tuk? Today during our walk we saw for ourselves what seemed to be a good solution for such a problem. The improvised jack was quite clever!

Today we gave another of our PowerPoint presentations. Every week there is a devotion at the Cambodia Service Center, and today happened to be our turn to teach. The assigned topic for today was the Core Leadership Pattern "Act Under the Direction of the Spirit." Everyone seemed to be completely focused on the message, and we had some great discussions. The best part about teaching a lesson like this is how much we learn as we prepare.

This afternoon we worked on several other projects, including the next phase of the missionary spending survey. There were only 7 survey booklets returned to us with the last distribution. Because the need is so great President and Sister Christensen decided they would like to try once more and include all the missionaries in the survey this time. We assembled the new booklets and took them to the mission home for the Assistants to distribute to the Zone Leaders, who in turn are to get them to each of the young missionaries. The target date for the completion of the survey is the end of September in order for the data to be evaluated before Zone Conferences in October.

We got to the mission home just in time to say goodbye to one of our young friends, Theary, as she was heading to the airport for her mission to England. She was surrounded by friends doing one last check of her suitcase. We will miss her, but England is receiving one awesome missionary from Cambodia.

We walked past Auto Zone on our way to the mission home. This Auto Zone is very different than the business of the same name back home. This is the carwash where we take our car. For about $3.50 the car is washed by hand and vacuumed as well.