Tuesdays Happen

As we got up this morning the skies were dark and ominous, but we still got ready to take our walk. By time we were even half way down the block, the skies were a beautiful pink and full of color and they no longer looked threatening at all. If we had decided to try and sleep for an extra half hour we would have truly missed out. One thing that we try and do on our walk is be good representatives of the Lord. As we pass shops and moto dops we always greet them, and most greet us back. There are some that even go out of the way to make sure that they tell us suasdei, or hello. It is a joy to have made friends on our early morning walks.

When we arrived at the Service Center today we were excited to see two of our favorite Young Adult women, the Chin sisters. They were leaving today for the MTC in the Philippines for the next three weeks and then they will be back to serve here in Cambodia. Pharun was in our Institute class for most of the time while we have been here. Khenha came a couple of times also. They are originally from Battambang but have both been living in the South Stake area.

Today Sister Oveson was asked to conduct the Service Center Devotional, but as they got to the training they told us it didn't apply to us and we could leave if we wanted. They were talking about annual leave, we told them that we wanted annual leave and we wanted our pay doubled. We still decided that since we had so much to do that we would gladly accept the opportunity to opt out of the training portion.

This morning Sister Oveson worked on putting some final touches on our PowerPoint presentation for Thailand. We had a Skype call with Elder and Sister Ricks scheduled for 2:00 p.m. and we wanted to be ready for it. The Ricks also sent some changes to the slides in their portion that we incorporated into the presentation. We feel like we are now comfortable with what we will share.

About 3:30 we came home to watch a Leadership Devotional with Elder Bednar. It is way easier to watch at our apartment without any distractions. We will be discussing this video at the seminar next week.