We Love Beautiful Clear Mornings

Most mornings lately have been overcast and not very bright, but this morning was beautiful and brilliant. The air was clear, because of rain over night, and there were only a few wispy clouds in the sky. Our morning walks are even more enjoyable on a morning like today and it felt like we even walked a little faster. As we walked we watched two small children playing as they followed their mother along the raised curb of the sidewalk, so of course they had to make our blog.

We did not have any Skype calls to make before going to the office, we are through with our string of family birthdays, so we made it out the door earlier than normal. Which meant we were the first ones in our area of the office today. We had several comment that we were there early and wanted to know why. We should give credit to the beautiful morning or no Skype calls.

Just before 10:00 we went back to our apartment to make a Skype call to East Malaysia, to Elder and Sister Harrison. Over the six months plus that we have been the Communication Couple they have been the hardest to contact. They have not been dodging us, the internet in East Malaysia is just as bad or worst than Cambodia, so getting Skype to connect has been a challenge.

While we were home we did our scripture study, we are just finishing the New Testament, and then we plan on reading The Book of Mormon one more time before we go home. We decided to eat our lunch at home. In looking at the internet Elder Oveson found that the University of Utah was playing their football game right then and got to hear part of the game.

Back at the office we were able to help with Perpetual Education Plan applications and concerns, edit a leader Self-Reliance success story and help on several projects in our department and others that had questions. It is nice to feel needed and appreciated.

This next week is Water Festival, that we will explain in a post then, but traffic this afternoon was already very heavy. They are expecting about two million extra people here in Phnom Penh, which is already too crowded.