SRS Leadership Changes in Asia

One of the first visitors that trained us about Self-Reliance Service/Perpetual Education Fund here in Cambodia was Marco Lok. Marco is the Asia Area Operations Manager, which means he deals with the Perpetual Education Fund Specialists. He came and trained Sameth and Sampson, the PEF Specialist from India. We received an email last night letting us know that Marco has accepted another position as a Church Employee. We loves computers and there was a position for a Computer Analyst that opened up. Today we got another email letting us know that the Self-Reliance Manager in Taiwan will be the new Asia Area Operation Manager. They needed to move quickly because there is training next week in Tokyo with the Headquarters Staff.

Today our primary objective was to finish up our Institute lesson for tomorrow. We have had so many coals in the fire that we were still working on the PowerPoint presentation that we felt was the right way to teach this lesson. We had most of the basic slides done but we had not put any color or background to them. They were very vanilla and plain. We did get them most of the way done before Chad Furness, our Area Manager called us.

This morning we were able to Skype with Elder & Sister Harrison in Malaysia. We were so surprised when we first got on the Skype call because the picture and sound was so good and clear. Unfortunately before we were really through it had deteriorated so much that we had to eventually just say goodbye. We are blessed to live in a time of such wonderful communication, so we have to expect the bad with the good in the third world nations we serve.

One of our favorite restaurants is Mama's New York Deli. Mama is leaving to go visit family in New York on Sunday. Her restaurant will be closed for three plus weeks, so we went to get one last fix of her scrumptious food before she goes. We also decided to be proactive and tell Elder & Sister Thurston that was where we were headed. That was wise because they decided to go there as well and Elder Thurston drove, which is always a great reprieve.

Tonights picture is a woman with a basket of fruit on her head who was in front of us as we took our walk at 6:00 a.m. Also we are always fascinated by the construction workers perched on poles, ladders and little platforms as they work in precarious positions to even spot weld.