Cambodia Calls

 Weeks 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 After the decision was made to bulldoze the existing hospital in Koh Thom, Dan has spent hours, days, weeks working with a designer helping to identify needed areas and floor plans for this new hospital.  With his 30 years as a surgeon they recognize that his knowledge is invaluable to this process, although there has been a bit of a turf war between two designers.  Unfortunately, some of them can't see beyond what they are used to and therefore create designs that aren't much of an improvement, only newer.  We will not be here to see the project to its conclusion as it is anticipated to take up to 2 years to complete.   Along with the new hospital project comes the question of where patients will go for their hospital care during construction.  Again, Dan has spent countless hours, along with our two translators visiting the existing 12 health centers, mapping out distances between them, distances to the existing hospitals, timing...

 Weeks 9, 10, 11 This Sunday, June 27 was a special one for the Saints in Cambodia.  It has been 25 years since President Gordon B. Hinckley dedicated the country of Cambodia for the preaching of the gospel.  Elder Randy and Sister Karen Jensen put together a very nice powerpoint presentation to be accessed by all the members here in Cambodia.  We went to the mission home to watch this presentation which included faith-promoting interviews with many of the pioneers in the church here, among them, Vichit of whom was mentioned in a previous post.  Several missionary pictures were included as well as a rendition of ''Called to Serve'' sung by our current missionaries.  Following the presentation the missionaries that were viewing online were able to say another good-bye to President and Sister Lewis.   A couple of years ago President Nelson announced that a temple would be built here in Cambodia.  Hopefully groundbreaking will take place this fa...