Dear Family,
We moved out of our office Friday night, packed and cleaned yesterday and just took all of our suit cases over to the office to wait for our return from Bangkok. We leave for Bangkok early tomorrow morning for Mom's last temple seminar. She has fifty kids coming this time she is pretty stressed with all the work it takes to put this together and then execute next week.
We have to get up early to catch our plane to Bangkok so this will be pretty brief.
A week ago we got a tremendous surprise. I've been working on getting a meeting with the Cambodian Ministry of Cult and Religion in connection with our offer to help the Ministry draft their new Freedom of Religion law. I delivered a model of the law to the Ministry a year ago and have been requesting a meeting ever since. Well, out of the blue last week I got a call (on Tuesday afternoon) that they would like to meet with me on Friday. So we quickly got a flight scheduled and left Thursday morning.
The meeting was very successful. The Ministry just concluded putting a legislation committee together to draft their new law a couple of weeks ago and the Minister is very interested in using our model legislation and working with BYU to draft their law. He felt that our meeting couldn't have been better timed. Another "Hand of the Lord" moment.
We are all very excited about this opportunity. And I might be able to stay involved and work with the law and religion symposium people at BYU on this project.
 |
| Here we are eating at our favorite restaurant in Phnom Penh, Titanic, by the Tonle Sap river. |
 |
| This is the requisite phot opp after the meeting. |
 |
| The temple site is just down the road from our hotel so we had to wander down and get a "look see". We got there just as a truck with four temple spires showed up, opening the gate which gave us a peak inside. |
 |
| The guard is telling me, no pictures so I had to at least get one of him (with a peak at the Temple inside) |
 |
| We flew up to Siem Reap on Saturday for a reunion for some of our local missionaries who live up there. We had a wonderful evening with all of them as they peppered us with questions about how to continue being deliberate disciples of Jesus Christ after their missions. |
 |
| I passed my bonsai tree on to another senior couple this last week. This is me saying goodbye. |
 |
| Here we have several husbands taking pictures of their wives at our monthly birthday lunch a couple of days ago. |
 |
| And now you can see why we are taking their pictures. As you can see a few of the sisters didn't get the memo or at least don't have their birthday dress yet. |
 |
| We've had goodbye dinners almost every night this last week. Here we are with several members of our ward. We absolutely love these good people. |
 |
| Mom with her YW's class. They are holding the gift Char gave to each of them (a heart bracelet) during their class today. |
 |
| We had to transfer all of our bags to the office building this evening and of course we were blessed with a downpour just when I was trying to get all the bags inside. |
 |
| We celebrated HK's 75 year anniversary (of missionary work in HK). We had a meeting this evening with a special choir, videos, and lots of speaches. Very cool for me to be here for this. We loved it. Here we are with a member of our ward and our stake president in front of the photo mural. |
 |
And finally, our last picture in our office. Everything has been cleaned out except Mom's flower and Christ pictures on the divider.
Time for bed here. It will be a very busy week now in Bangkok and then we fly back to HK next Sunday night. We clean up loose ends and do a little relaxing Monday and Tuesday and then home to all of you. We cannot wait. We love and miss all of you so much.
Till the 24th!!!! Love you, Mom, Dad, Grandpa and Grandma |
Comments
Post a Comment