March 1st. This is a great piece of ground for the new chapel. It's right on the main highway. For some reason, someone, not Scott, authorized a start to the chapel without a formal ground breaking. Therefore, because there was no need for a formal ground breaking because the first shovel full had already been dug, under the direction of Elder Gong, we held an informal groundbreaking. This was before our Zone Conference as we came in to town. The missionaries were invited, the branch presidency and any members who wanted to come. We had a nice little group. We had a song, prayer, some talks, and prayer and then pictures of people with shovels to signify the chapel is on the way. We have four missionaries serving in Siem Reap. Elder Sok on the left is the Zone Leader and his companion in this picture is Elder Taylor. Elder Anderson is the District Leader and he is training Elder Sam. The missionaries in Siem Reap had 5 baptisms Sunday, March 18th. Yeah! We now have a senior couple serving there for the next 6 months also.
The branch president is Loy, Bunseak. (In Cambodia, they put the family name first). The branch president, his counselor, Brother Da, and the Elder's Quorum President are pictured. All the members that were in attendance also posed and those who desired, got to have pictures with the shovels. It was a good feeling that these wonderful members will soon be able to worship in a buildling of their own. One of our former missionaries, Elder Da gets to hold a shovel too. He is second from left.
Most of the crew came over for the picture. They were interested in the prayers, songs, pictures, talks. All of it. They loaned us all of their hard hats so that all the rules could be followed and they sat off a distance and waited. So, it was only fair that as we gave them their hats back, they all got to be in a picture!
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