Zone Conferences - November 14 - 26, 2013

Zone conferences - training for zone conferences this month focused on faith, exercising faith as missionaries, helping others develop faith in Christ using the Book of Mormon and by helping them make and keep commitments, teaching priesthood principles, and more.

South and East zones

North and Central zones

North and central zones cont...

Happy Birthday!

Kampong Cham Zone

Kampong Cham zone

Sister Moon checking shoes!

Siem Reap and Kampong Thom zones-- at the new Siem Reap church building

Battambang Zone

Vietnam - HCMC districts

Hanoi District - Vietnam zone conferences

Hanoi district - our smallest zone conference (but arguably our best since it was the 7th time we had done it!)

Returned Missionary Reunion for local missionaries in Cambodia and Vietnam November 16, 2013

We had a wonderful returned missionary reunion with all returned missionaries in Cambodia on November 16, 2013.  Sister Moon did the planning along with a committee of local RM's.  We could not have done it without the help of many senior couples that day.  They helped so much.

Designing and painting their own t-shirts

Next we did speed-dating with the single returned missionaries-- they had never done this before, and were a bit nervous about it, but after a few rounds they got the hang of it and really enjoyed it!  Many said it was a great way to break the ice with other RM's that they didn't know well.

Food was catered by Viva's-- the local RM's all wanted Mexican!  Imagine that!

7 princesses, 1 prince

We had an absolutely wonderful group of 7 local sister missionaries and 1 local elder who finished their missions November 8, 2013.  It was delightful to meet with them as they completed their missions.  We had a dinner for them and their parents and families at the South District Center, followed by a ceremony presenting them their certificates and a testimony meeting.  The testimony meeting was a wonderful opportunity for them to share their testimonies and feelings with their families-- many of whom are non-members or only part-member families.  The greatest desire for each of these local missionaries is that their families will want to join the church and be active and go to the temple to be sealed as families.

Sister Roth with some of her family and friends

Sister Kosal, Sister Lam (who finished one transfer earlier but was part of this group of amazing sisters so we invited her to join too), and Sister Truong

From left to right:  SIster Moon, Sister Chin, Sister Our, Sister Lam, Sister Yin, Elder Khlot, Sister Truong, Sister Roth, Sister Kosal, Sister Kan, Pres. Moon

Sister Roth with her family

These wonderful children are sort of always at the SDC and anxious to pop in and join any activity we have!  They are darling.  I think the SDC is sort of their own backyard playground.

Sister Kosal with her sisters

Sister Our with niece and nephew

Sister Our with her sister and family

Elder Khlot with his parents, who are members