Missionaries, Movies and Krispy Kreme

With the holiday we did not go to the office, but we did have some things lined up for today to keep us busy, for at least part of the time. We had Skype calls scheduled with the Self-Reliance Services Missionaries in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Our call with Elder & Sister Chen in Taiwan went off without any hitches at all. We had a great chat with them and they are doing amazing things to help the work move forward. When we tried to connect with Elder & Sister Chandler in Hong Kong the call kept freezing and dropping, after several attempts we decided to try again on Monday afternoon at 1:30 p.m.

Durrng Pchum Ben a major portion of the residents of Phnom Penh leave and go back to their home province. That makes it very hard for most of the missionaries to have any effective work at all. The missionaries were encouraged to spend a couple extra hours today deep cleaning their apartments, inspections are next week. Also, President and Sister Christensen decided to allow the missionaries to gather for a film night at the South Stake Center. We volunteered to host, which meant we made sure that there was a movie for them to watch and that we picked up the donuts for the treats.

We left just before 3:00 to pickup the donuts and set up the room for a starting time of 4:30. We had downloaded Ephraim's Rescue for them to see. That was a very good choice, since there was no real romantic scenes and it showed the power of faith and the priesthood. After the gathering four of the Elders approached us about giving them a ride home. They live up North almost to the airport, so they had taken a Tuk-Tuk to the church. We took pity on them and took them home.