Thursday, September 13, 2007

Gardening


We have been looking for tomato plants but couldn't find any. Hoping for tomatoes and green pepers, we went to the market and searched for the seeds and then looked for pots to plant in. When we got home, our landlord gave us some potting soil and Elder Morgan planted four pots. We have put them on our porch the goes around our apartment on two sides. We have no idea if we can grow these plants here. We can't see any reason why they won't grow, it's warm and moist with 90 degrees and 90 percent humity.

Line Dancing

We had a good time learning this line dance even though it was very hot and muggy.

We Celebrated Dad's birthdy in Style




We had a chocolate birthday cake and candles. Sister Sasser, pictured with Dad had a birthday on the 4th, so we celebrated both. We had all the couple missionaries here for Family Home Evening and we went up on the 6th floor to overlook the city. It was going to be a grand occation, but it rained a lot that day and people had some trouble getting here since our road was flooded. But it all worked out and we had pizza, soda, birthday cake. One of the couples that had served a mission to Zimbabwe brought a presentation of growing vegetables gardens. We did a line dance after that.

Another Dental Clinic


We still have patients that come even though we have been to the branch several times, but the line isn't as long.

We enjoy the people and they are so grateful. One little lady came in from the country to get a tooth pulled.

Sunday, September 2, 2007

River Trip up the Mekong
















Some of the Senior Couples travel up the Mekong River and saw another Vietnamese floating village, more cattle that look like they haven't eaten in weeks, a Wat and some silk weaving villages. We had an enjoyable little trip for about four hours. I bought two silk scarfs that were woven there.
Friday Elder Morgan and I stopped at the new church building that has a completion date the first of January '08.

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Vietnam People Floating Villiage




When we went to Seim Reap we went on a boat trip that goes into the lake there. There is a whole village that floats on the river. We saw churches, schools, basketball courts, stores and of course homes. Some of the homes had flower boxes. Most of the homes were made of dried palm leaves. We saw some children coming out of a store with a treat. The jumped in the boat and were off. Just like walking to the corner grocery store.

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Trip to Angkor Wat





The first picture with Dad shows the huge trees that have taken over in some of the temples. You can see in the background a tarp that is covering the reconstruction that is taking place on some of the temples.
We found this pink temple to be in the best of condition and with beautiful carvings.
Some of the temples are Hindu and some are Budist. It is a curious thing how this all got started deep in the Cambodian Jungles.