Snow In Utah, Sun In Cambodia

As we FaceTimed with our family last weekend they told us that snow was on its way, the first major storm of the season. In email responses to our weekly letter to friends and family we were again told of the pending storms. Because of that we have been watching the weather reports for Salt Lake Valley the last couple of days to see if the forecast was correct. The best evidence of the snow was a beautiful picture of the snow covered temple posted by a friend on Facebook. So that picture became part of our collage today along with the beautiful sunset and green trees here in Phnom Penh.

In an email to one of our daughters we told her that we had looked at the weather app and it said the temperature in South Jordan was 30 degrees and in Phnom Penh it showed only 29 degree. She did not buy in to our story, knowing one was in fahrenheit and the other was celsius. The real high temperature in fahrenheit in Phnom Penh was 88 degrees with a feels like of 94 degrees.

Today was a "normal" Tuesday at our office. We attended the Service Center Devotional that went for about an hour and a half. We worked on the preparation for the lesson for our Institute Class. We helped Phanna and Sameth on Self-Reliance and Perpetual Education Fund issues. We helped several of the Service Center staff with questions about what something really meant that was in English and not Khmer, or how to put something in English. Elder Oveson worked on reviewing Perpetual Education Fund applications from several countries. We also did our daily scripture reading.

The non-normal part is putting together reports for when we go home and we can hand off some of the assignments that we have been given. We want to leave things better than when we came, and to have made a difference by being here. Elder Oveson is still telling people we have three months left, November, December and January. He will have to change to two months in less than two days.