On the way to Siem Reap for a 4 city Zone Conference (small Zones: total 20 missionaries), we stopped off in Battambang for Scott to do some interviews. We stopped by the new chapel there to see how it is progressing. We are getting close. I think the new deadline is in June sometime. They are painting the rooms, putting up the woodwork, and working on finishing the roof. All the duct work is finished. They even have tile laid in some of the rooms where there will be tile. It is right on a major highway and will see alot of traffic coming in to see the finished product. It will be a great missionary tool.
From Battambang, we head up to Siem Reap. Some of the scenes from the car window show plowed rice fields ready to plant and some already planted. It is so beautiful when the rice is almost ripe. I've said this before, but it looks like one big golf course, especially when there are some palm trees interspersed amongst the rice. We passed a hill that has a big Buddha statue, but the picture didnt' turn out so well. Elder Schiefer drives to give Scott a break. It takes about 5-6 hours to go to Siem Reap through Battambang.
At Siem Reap, we met up with some missionaries to eat at a new buffet that cost $5 each. It is the Lucky's Buffet. Everything comes in on a belt. You take the food you want off the belt. They bring some broth that you choose. They put it in the pot. You set the temperature to boil the broth and then add the choices you made from the belt. I had some kind of Khmer green leafed veggie that I like, some shrimp and pork and noodles. It cooked up fast. You dish your own food up. It was absolutely delicious and I would like to go there again. I've never put pictures of our room in Siem Reap where we usually stay at the Paradise Angkor. This time they put us in a suite for the same price! It has two couches and chairs, beautiful wood floors, a beautiful buffet wher ethe TV was, but we put other stuff on it and rarely have time to watch TV. We make time to answer our e-mails on the road. I like seeing the monks just walking around with their umbrellas to protect themselves fromt he heat, sometimes the rain.
Zone conference was a success. We stayed an extra day to go teaching with the Elders and the next day to go to church in Siem Reap and go do home teaching visits. Those were wonderful. My camera had lost it's charge and I didnt' get any pictures. On the way home, we stopped in Kampon Cham for Scott to do more interviews. One of them was in the neighborhood of a wonderful member missionary. Ming Nih (ming means Aunt, and that is what most people call her). She totally gets how important it is to share the Gospel with friends and neighbors and family. She has probably introduced the missionaries to 30 different people who are now members. She goes with them to the discussions too. She is just an enthusiastic person and has been a member for just a year. Elder Thomas stands by a sort of chicken coop on the side of the home where Scott was interviewing a sister for baptism. She passed. Sister Nih brought her little granddaughter with her to see President Smedley and offer moral support to the potential member. I think she was influential with the other woman in the above picture also and now that lady likes to help the Elder's teach too.
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