Semi-Annual Senior Conference

We always enjoy meeting with the young missionaries for Zone Conference, they are full of enthusiasm and desire to serve, but we absolutely love getting together with the other Senior Missionaries twice a year. It is hard to believe that it has been six months since our last Senior Conference but what a joy to be with these fellow servants of the Lord.

We did have a full work day before the start of the Senior Conference at 3:00 this afternoon. Elder Oveson had a phone call with Hong Kong this morning for about forty-five minutes that we did from home before going to the office. Originally we thought it would be a Skype call but it came in as a phone call. Either they tried us on Skype and the internet was already down or they were inspired to call instead of Skype because we realized the internet was down during the call. Yesterday Phanna asked us to help with a three-year plan that needed to be sent to Chad this afternoon. We started working on it this morning but then we had a WebEx with all of the Asia Team to discuss what Chad needed. After that we had to work hard and fast to have it done before we had to go.

We started out the Senior Conference sorting out the Helping Hands vests that the YSA used for their last service project. We threw away some and sorted others that need to be washed, while some were just fine to use again.

This evening we took a dinner cruise on the river. We did a similar dinner cruise last Senior Conference and it was such a success they decided to do it again. In two weeks is the Water Festival where they have boat races in paddled boats, we got to see one go by on a practice run. The sunset with the clouds and the water was just beautiful. But the best part about the whole thing was just sitting and talking with the other Senior Missionaries. For the dinner portion we sat with Sister Leavitt and Elder and Sister Spencer. We now know more about the Spencers than before and we have served for eighteen months in the same mission, just different cities.

Our collage tonight is from the dinner cruise.