Meeting More Of The New Missionaries

About a dozen times each month we get to interact with the other Self-Reliance Missionaries via the internet. Between the one on one, actually both of us with another couple or Sister Roberts, and then the monthly Self-Reliance WebEx. This has been such a joy for us to get to know these other wonderful, dedicated and faithful missionaries. This morning we Skyped with Elder & Sister Chen in Taiwan. Sister Chen is also the health missionary in Taiwan, so she is a very busy woman. This last month they have been working on the Preferred List of schools for the Perpetual Education Fund which just became available Taiwan.

This afternoon we arranged to go and talk with President & Sister Christensen about the Missionary Spending Analysis that we were assigned to help with. We gave out about 80 little booklets for the missionaries to fill out, but only got seven back. Even with those seven we could see some very interesting trends. We recommended that we try again and not make it optional, but mandatory. We will produce some more booklets next week and get them over to the Mission Office to be handed out. We got to the Mission Office just as they were completing the training for the new missionaries. That gave us the opportunity to meet and get some more pictures of the new group today.

We did some final adjustments on the PowerPoint presentation for our Institute class tomorrow morning. This is one of those lessons that if we do not get a lot of participation it could be done way early. Fortunately this class has been real good about making wonderful comments in the past, we will hope and pray for that again tomorrow.

This afternoon Phanna left early because we is going to Kampong Thom this weekend. Then Sameth decided that he had stayed as long as he could, he has been sick most of this week so he went home. We did stick it out at the office until 5:00.

We usually try and go out to eat on Friday night, so we went to one of the Mexican places, but it is closed for remodeling. The other Mexican Restaurant that we frequent does not open until 6:00 p.m., so we took our car to the apartment and walked over. Like several times before as we have gone out to eat, we got to the restaurant and found Elder & Sister Thurston there as well. As always, the food was okay but the company was wonderful.