Keeping Busy

This week has been absolutely insane. I am still with Elder Vanfleet.  He is a great guy, and I learn lots of Khmer from him.  We were not able to go out and proselyte at all, and because of the meeting on Sunday, we weren't able to baptize Sokha either, but he came to church, so we are still planning on his baptism for next week. On Thursday the new missionaries came, and they were so excited. The ones from America came around noon, and had all their orientation and things throughout the day. The Khmer Elders coming in from the Manila MTC were supposed to come in around 6:30. But their layover flight from Bangkok was delayed. A very, very long time, and we didn't leave the airport until around 11. Then we got to the mission home and ate dinner with the Smedley's and got home at midnight. Friday was a late night too. On Friday, almost every missionary came to the mission home. There was only one companionship that didn't get changed. So, things were kind of crazy in the mission home around noon time. Even the missionaries in the kytes came in. Speaking of which, we stuffed all 8 Battambang elders and sisters in the van with their luggage. It was so jam packed full. There was all of the luggage of 3 elders and a sister with those 8 bodies plus Elder Vanfleet and I as we took them to the bus station.  We picked up Elder Subandriyo from the Airport in the afternoon, and at night the office staff had interviews with Elder Gong. Saturday was the big day! We had to set up 2 projectors, translation equipment, sound equipment for the movies in the PowerPoint Presentation that Elder Gong put together. Everything, even though there were 3 languages (English, Khmer, and Vietnamese) went very well though, and I am so grateful for that.  Sunday we had the huge special districts conference. There were 969 people in attendance, probably one of the biggest gatherings of Latter-Day Saints in Cambodia. In that meeting a new branch was created, a new district, the East District was created from the South District, and all of the district presidencies were changed.  The reading of the changes and releases and sustainings took quite a while, but the presentation that Elder Vanfleet and I worked on with President Eng Bun Huoch went really well. Some wonderful testimonies were shared, and the Spirit was very, very strong in the whole meeting.