Our Apartment Building Pool

What does a missionary do with a pool outside their apartment? Look at it. this apartment building is new, but right next door is a shack where they sell products and a girls sits and sews all day long. One can go down this street and find all kinds of little buildings (shacks) selling everything from food to car parts.

Top of the World

The Phnom Penh World anyway. This is on the roof of our 6 story apartment building. Most of the activities are done in the late afternoon because it gets dark around 6:30 p.m and there are not many street lights. We are going to bed around 9:30 or 10 each evening. Rather interesting schedule around here.

At the Orphanage

I had my palm out and the children and the adults were very interested in it. It is so very hard to tell the age of these people. They are all so very young looking, or is it I am just so old?

Journey outside the city of Phnom Penh

These cows are tethered our by the rice fields.

Visit to the orphanage

I, Sister Morgan, visited a private orphange run by the RS President of 7th Branch. All the children ran and greeted me. They all were so very dear. This is a picture of the boys doing a dance that the New Zealand Missionary Couple taught them. There are 25 children here. I am still trying to see where I can help these children. I will let you know if you can do something as well.

Traffic

This is a small sampling of the traffic we see every day, everywhere. The motos weave in and out of traffic but the bigger you are the more rights you have, pedestrians have no rights and they take their lives in their hands if they try to cross the street.

Kitchen and fruits from shopping

We went shopping and we got a nice selection of fruits. We had the missionaries over to our apartment and they had dinner with us. We cut up a lot of this fruit but they were more hungry for noodles and chicken. Elder Morgan and I enjoyed the fruit.

Apartment kitchen

This is a picture of our kitchen and our dryer, (a drying rack that we hang our clothes on). I do have a washer unlike Vicki when she was in Russia.

Our Hut

You need not worry about us. Our apartment is very nice. We rented it furnished, but yesterday we went out and bought things that were not furnished. We also had our first shopping experience in the grocery store. We found a lot of things that we recognized but many that we did not. We didn't buy any meat so today was was cheese and crackers. We also bought some yams so we had a yam for lunch. We bought some wonderful fruit and have been eating that since we got it. We went to church in a gom bie. We had our drive take a picture of it, but he must not have done something right, because there is not a picture on our camera. We have had a wonderful sabbath day. The people are friendly and kind. There were 5 baptisms at the building today, we witnessed 4 of them. Much love from Cambodia, we all must keep the Faith!

Uncle Phil

Dad wanted me to send this picture from the MTC so you all could see him. He is looking pretty well and he was happy to take the suit case to his house to keep until Christine gets there.

Dad At the Chair Again

This time for free. Elder Morgan will probably doing charity dentistry 2 days a month and then teaching at the dental school 1/2 day a week. He enjoyed working with Elder Gartz another senior couple. Sister Morgan was back cleaning instruments. It reminded her of the summer after high school when she cleaned instruments in the surgery department.

Finished our instruction

Our Language tutor over the phone and at the MTC, on the left. We have had a marvelous time. We will keep in touch. We love you all so very much.

The morning of our entering the MTC

To the right is Uncle Clinn and above is Uncle Clinn and Aunt Rhea, he is doing well, but has lost some of his memory. He still has his wonderful smile and humor. Aunt Rhea seems to be keeping things going.

George is doing well. He went to Garens for Father's day. He is doing pretty well, but misses Roberta.

We went to see Uncle Weston and Aunt Patty and David. They are doing well.

Finished our instruction see you

Sunday Evening June 17th Well we have finished the intense training of the MTC. Wow, what an experience. I have never been more spiritually feed. We have loved every minute we have been here and are looking forward to the reports from our missionary grandchildren. This is the best place in the world. We have met such good people and we will be traveling with some of them as we travel tomorrow. The young missionaries that will be in Cambodia in July are so very dear, we will love the opportunity to work with them. We hope and pray for each one of you and know the Lord will bless you. Mother



We have had such a great experience together this week, that even if we spend 18 months in a "hut" it will be worth it. I can't wait to complete this mission, so we can sign up again and come back to the MTC. We will post again on the 20th when we get in Phnom Penh.



love,



Dad

Packed and ready to go

Well, some of us are packed and others of us are not.

Fan of the Reds even when loosing

This is Mike getting his last view of the Reds

Trying to upload pictures

We have sucessfully added a picture to the blog. Tying to learn before we leave. Thanks Amy for your help.

Last few days of watching the Reds Ball Game

Mike at home watching the Red's Ball game. We are getting closer and closer to being ready.