I hopefully can keep the connection on to finish some blogging

We have had some amazing experiences this past month.  Many more investigators coming to church.  We had 23 in third branch last Sunday.  The elders and sisters were really excited.  We now have 9 missionaries in our area.  3 are new.  One Khmer Elder and One Elder named Elder from SLC (the members say what is your name and he says Elder Elder and they say we know you are an elder, but what is you name Elder?  We have had alot of fun with that.)  and One Sister named Hildenbrand.  The other sister is from Sanaquin and her name is Askerlund.  You ought to hear them try to say those names.  The just go by Sister Lund and Sister Brand.  It is so fun to serve with them.  On transfers we lost 3 elders and got 6 more  missionaries for a total of 12 now.  It is quite fun because when we ride around doing our visiting we see them all over.  They ride what I call Khmer cadilacs which is a bike that is recycled after being worn out in Viet Nam.  They ride about 25 to 30 miles per day, even the sisters.  The temp the las few weeks has been around 110 to 115 with 75% humidity.  Needless to say the sweat is always dripping off of them.  We feel kind of guilty riding around in an airconditioned van.

Here they are and they get them around quite well.

This is our front door on Preparation day.  This is before we had any sisters shoes to mix with them.  I tell them they can leave them on when they come in our house, but they never do.

This is what they call a moto tuk tuk.  This same guy hauls all these people to market to sell their stuff every morning.  When he goes to start up needless to say the front wheel comes off the ground until he builds up a little momentum 

This is a game we played at mutual where we had a peice of candy that had a hole in the center and we did a relay to pass the candy along the line.  It was really fun and the kids had a blast.  We have mutual every Sat night at 5:00pm.   That's right Saturday night.  It is the only time they have because of school and work.  We get a pretty good turnout each week and the kids really enjoy it.  We come with a game or two every week and we are about out of games so if any one has any good ones please let us know.

This is a family that we taught FHE too.  Yes that is their nice home teaching room and for that matter only room.  Can you tell who the Mormons are by their faces?  The girl in the pink pants served a mission in Las Vegas,  The girl in the yellow is her sister and is a NM.  The mom in the back has held many church callings.  The husband is also a NM.  The other 4 are still members also.

This is a water tank for a village to use for their water needs.  It just goes up into this cement tank and then goes out to the village.  The only purification it gets is what settles to the bottom of the cement tank.

This is the water in the blue pipes going out to the village

This is the pump pumping the water into the cement tank

This is where the water comes from to go into the cement water tank.  This is the MeKong River.  They dump garbage and sewage and anything else they don't want into here and then these people in the village drink and can't figure out why they get sick and so many of their kids die.  We are going to do a humanitarian project to see if we can get this cleaned up for them.

This is the hospital in KC.  Everyone gets the same treatment.  A NS IV and their family have to come and take care of them and bring all their food and do any nursing care.  People ride around on motos with somehold up a bamboo stick with an IV hooked to it and the person getting the IV is riding on the moto.

These muslem women are sitting on a patient bed.  It is just bamboo boards with no mattress.  One of our branch presidents had a gall bladder attack and laid on this very bed for 5 days last week.  I guess they know what they are doing because he got better and is now back at church

This is the front of the hospital.  I am standing out in the middle of the street.  The bed by the black moto is where the branch pres was for the whole time.  I wonder what JACH would think of this.

These are some little kids cooking some mud pies.  They have the cutest grins and really love it when anyone notices them 

This is an old grizzled tom turkey we found at some members house.  They just got baptized last week.  This is the first turkey I have seen over here and Lim our driver says first for him too.

This is a lady on her way to the market to sell what ever is in the basket.  We see this all the time.  When they stop they have to hold onto the basket, when the walk both hands are at their sides.  I tried to get sister Thalman to carry our groceries this way, but she won't. 

I have rattled on long enough.  We are sure loving it here and really love these wonderful people.  The members are so committed to the gospel.  When they asked you to give them a blessing and they are not immediately better they are so surprised.  We have finally got them having mutual every week. We are doing scheduling for a medical and dental clinic that is coming next month right here to Kampong Cham.  (never had one here before)  You would not believe how many rotten teeth and infections that are here and also serious medical problems.  The clinic is coming to the sea coast Schinooksville, about 6 hours from here.  They come to Kampong Cham and do a clinic and if anyone needs surgery which their are plenty they will fly them by helicopter to the ship and do surgery and then fly them back.  There is so much need and so little resources.  The church has donated $600,000 worth equipment to the clinic so we want to get as many members into the clinic as we can.  When we started asking questions it is unbelievable the things people have to live with.  This is where Obama Care needs to come if they is really interested in helping people.