Senior Conference - Getting Down To Business

Senior Conferences are extremely fun to be with the other Missionary Couples, even more important it is an opportunity to be taught by President & Sister Christensen. Today we met at the Mission Home for a three hour meeting together to discuss a variety of issues and to catch up on concerns and happenings in the mission.

The Church has learned that we have to be reminded on a constant basis of things that we should not do, even though they are well meaning. It is so hard to watch the suffering that happens in a third world nation and not want to help in some small way. The problem is when you help one, others want to know why you don't help them as well. That also sets up the future couples for an expectation that they need to help since the previous couple were so generous.

We had a great discussion about what should happen with the young missionaries during the upcoming holidays. Last year we gathered for some wonderful meals together, but found out that the mission should not be paying for feasts. So the focus will be more on helping and serving others instead of eating a lot.

On November 13th through the 15th is Water Festival here in Phnom Penh and they are expecting up to two million extra people to come to Phnom Penh from the Kaits. The problem is with that many extra people the city can get a little iffy, so they want the missionaries to stay away from the festivities and the big crowds. That is always wise advise.

After our meeting we went to the new Carl's Jr. in town for lunch. We were not big Carl's Jr. fans before our mission, but it was a nice taste of home.

We went back to the office after lunch for a while and we were extremely busy. We had to finish getting ready for a visit from Chad who arrived this evening and will be here until next Tuesday morning. We were so busy that we did not have any time to work on our Institute lesson or our symposium presentation that both happen on Saturday.