General Conference Cambodia Style

It is amazing to realize that this is our fourth General Conference in Cambodia. For those who have followed our blog know that we watch General Conference a week after it happens in Utah. That allows for the Stakes/Districts/Mission to download the sessions so that they are not trying to rely on the internet, which is not completely reliable. One of the really nice parts is we get to watch Conference with the International Branch in English without someone trying to translate for us.

Two conferences ago we realized that we could follow the video and read the talks at the same, since the printed talks are already on LDS.org. That is so neat to listen and read because it helps get the message deeper into our hearts and minds.

Sister Oveson was an assigned paparazzi for the parents of one of the young Sister Missionaries, Sister Winters. In Elder Andersen's talk in the morning session he told the story of her aunt's conversion to the Church and showed a picture of her with her family. Fortunately Sister Winters was sitting on the front row and just opposite all the chairs were empty. She got some very great pictures and it was a very touching experience.

We were able to watch all three of the Saturday Sessions and be done right around 6:00 p.m. Since it was still early and we all needed to go and eat, four of the Senior Couples, including President and Sister Christensen, went to Mama's New York Deli for dinner. Mama had been gone to New York for three weeks, but just got back.

We did start of our day by teaching Institute. This time we are teaching one of the cornerstone classes on The Eternal Family. As we started we only had three participants there, then Elder & Sister Jones, the Family History Couple, joined us. By time we got through our class there were seventeen participants plus the Joneses. We love teaching Institute and we learn right along with the rest of the class. We should have enough time to teach all of the lessons for this classes before we go home.