Missionary Apartment Inspections - Part 2

There was no question today that the holiday was over. Vehicles were back to carrying their over-filled loads, and no empty roads. The kids were back on the street selling their flower wreath air-fresheners or dusting windows on cars in hopes of receiving a few hundred riel. Basically the city of Phnom Penh was back to "normal" (whatever normal is).

Today we made two more visits for apartment inspections. Elder Khiev (Que) and Elder Stringham have been with us in the Steung Mean Chey 3rd ward for a while. With transfers this week Elder Stringham will be moving to the office and Elder Lamborn, one of our favorite missionaries from our MTC group, will join Elder Khiev as our weekly translator. Elder Stringham will be a good addition to the office. That will also give him the opportunity to help teach the two investigators who both found us in Steung Mean Chey. Lotus from China and Augustus from Nigeria are currently being taught by the office elders who are assigned to the International Branch.

We don't know Sister Pace and Sister Mortell as well since they are assigned to Steung Mean Chey 2nd Ward. We were missing Sister Y and Sister Peng from that apartment as they had gone to the mission office when we arrived for inspections.

We were grateful we waited a day for the second trip to Steung Mean Chey. Yesterday it rained enough that the streets were flooding, and both apartments we inspected today had a stream of water flowing through the ground floor. Traffic would have been crazy yesterday with everyone returning to the city from throughout the country, then add the storm and what would have been a 30 minute drive would likely have taken over an hour. Today was busy enough.