Last Apartment Inspections

As our mission winds down we find more things we are doing for one last time. Today was one of those as we made our rounds doing apartment inspections. There is one last apartment to inspect on Tuesday. President and Sister Christensen have emphasized the need to be Deliberate Disciples, including keeping their apartments clean. The apartments are still much better than when we started doing inspections, but the training has been long enough ago that they are slipping a little. They were still good enough that they all earned their donuts. Each apartment was decorated for Christmas, including trees and presents, stockings, and paper snow-flakes and "missionaries" (including name badges) in one apartment. It is such a joy to associate with these wonderful young missionaries.

Next Wednesday, the 28th, is the last transfer of the year, with some of the elders we met at the MTC taking their last long transfer home. The rest of "our" group will finish in February. The group split for this last transfer because of a change in the length of training at the MTC, causing a modification in the schedule of missionaries coming, which also created a modification in arrivals and departures.

Because of inspections we didn't get to the office until after 11:00. When we logged into our computer we found that several of our children had tried to call us. With a 14 hour time difference these would be some late calls for them. Lunch didn't happen until about 1:00, but that was okay.

The most exciting thing today was the delivery of our Christmas present, which we will tell more about after Christmas. There may not be many gifts under our tree, but our hearts are full of love for the amazing friends we have made in this little Kingdom of Cambodia, the Land of Wonder.