Phnom Penh South Stake Conference

Six months ago Elder Khanakam of the Seventy was the visiting authority for the Phnom Penh South Stake Conference. After the conference he encouraged them to hold two sessions of the General or Sunday Session of conference. He felt that by doing two sessions that it would  provide more of an opportunity for the members of the Stake to attend Stake Conference. In the past the Stake Conference has been at the Stake Center in Chamkarmorn which is about a twenty to thirty minute drive without bad traffic from Steung Mean Chey. The problem is most of the members in Steung Mean Chey do not have cars and many do not even have motos. The previous two conferences the stake hired a bus to bring members from the Steung Mean Chey Building to the Stake Center.

With two sessions they also partially had to come up with different sets of speakers, the Stake Presidency and Mission President were the same for both. That gave an opportunity for more of the members to participate in the conference. They also had a forty member adult choir that sang in both sessions. We do not know the final count, but at the least they had about fifty of the same members in both session, which should up their attendance numbers.

One of our Institute class members, Khenna Monikeo, played a major role in Stake Conference both days. Last night she translated for one of the speakers and lead the music, today she again translated for one of the speakers and was the very next speaker. We count her as one of our dear Cambodian friends, she was in last night's collage with her mom. Also, Lisa, one of the members that we had a Family Home Evening with last Sunday Evening, was another of the speakers and did a wonderful job.

The center picture in our blog tonight is President Uk Sophal, his wife Bolinda and their children David, Mara and Daniel. The choir had to line up for a picture at Steung Mean Chey so we took advantage of their gathering. The YSA in our picture tonight is Sasha from Canada that attends our Institute class. And finally the couple is Pam & Jerry Bowman that are visiting Cambodia and ended up at the Stake Conference today.