Institute, Baptisms and Meetings

Each week we wonder who and how many will show up for the Institute Class that we teach. There are some weeks where they start arriving ten minutes early and others, like today, when the first one shows up just minutes before 7:00 a.m. It is also very interesting to see the mix that are there, some weeks the young sisters show up first and other weeks the YSA males arrive first. Today there were five female and five male as we started teaching the lesson. We had a total of twenty come today, fourteen sisters and six brethren. One of the joys of teaching is when they ask us profound questions. This is literally the first generation of membership of the Church here in Cambodia, so we are teaching them how to bring up the second generation as an Eternal Family. There are some of the YSA sisters who compete to see who can get the most hugs from Sister Oveson at the end of the class. They say they are storing them up for when we go home.

This evening we went to the baptism for two young adults, one from the Chaktomuk Ward, that we attend, and the other from the Tuol Thom Pong Ward. The one from Chaktomuk is a YSA sister that the Sister Missionaries taught, her mother, that is also taking the lessons, came for the baptism. The other baptism is a YSA brother that Elder Maurer and Elder Burnett taught. That was a great birthday present for the two of them, Elder Burnett's birthday was last Saturday and Elder Maurer's birthday is tomorrow.

This morning we only Skyped and FaceTimed with two of our daughters and their families. The others were off with other activities, this is a very busy time back home. We will have to catch the rest on other days.

This afternoon Elder Oveson had to go to Stake Presidency Meeting and Stake Priesthood  Executive Committee Meeting. With the end of the year coming up fast they still need to compllete the Stake goals, calendar and planning for next year. The goals have to be submitted by Tuesday and we are still waiting for some from one of the units. Hopefully we will get them tomorrow.