big day!

I have been trying for one hour to get onto my blog. See how much I want you to know what we are up to?

Today was a big day. We had 16 students and their wives. They did  injections today, will do cleaning and fillings tomorrow,extractions for then next three days after that in a village. We will work outside. 

today I recognized the food, so that was a good thing!

We are learning a lot about what is happening in Nigeria, it is amazing. I can't wait to tell you all about it when we get home! There are so many dedicated people here, that have such a hard strugle for what they believe. 

Our team is wonderful, we have all bonded well and are having a wonderful time.

It takes so much time to get to the blog, don't know when I get to it again. But all is well here! We are in good care. More Later!

Nigeria

We made it! I have tried to make some phone calls, but no luck yet. All our flights were on time, all our bags are with us at this point! I had my first pounded yam tonight, hope its my last. I am hoping to come home skinny. We'll see. Our host  was talking about american culture and how they are with dogs. He said ask any of these men if they would let a dog sit next to them and see what they say. He said he heard some americans even let their dogs sleep in their beds! Can you imagine! He said a god is no different that a tree! Soooo guess he doesn't wont appreciate pictures of my sweet little Cooper!

We start training tomorrow about 20 minutes from where we are staying. Do that for two days and then we will go to a village for 3 days, and they graduate!

Lots of people want on the computer. But know we are fine and in good hands here!  Love all of your, and know all your prayers are being answered for us! Thank YOu!

ONe more thing, instant coffee is the way to go here, the milk is brown. So guess who is having black coffee!!

last minute details

Got home last night. Planned on packing and doing last minute things today. Seems like everything takes forever to do!

At the last minute I decided I needed a power back up for my kindle. What if I can't get to any electricity? All my reading material is on my Kindle! I ordered one from amazom and they had it in my hands in less than 24 hours! So that is good! I think I have about 16 books on my Kindle, that should last for the trip.

We just decided to drop the Sodo Hospital part of our mission in Ethiopia. Instead we will stay in the capitol and do training there. We invited the person we were to train at Sodo for Samaritans Purse to Addis for training. It makes more sense for one person to come to us where we can train many, than for us to travel to one person and be limited on how many we can impact. We just were getting uneasy about the Sodo trip, they kept throwing last minute requests at us to bring them things and we were beginning to feel used and abused. So after some prayer we made the change and feel much better about the plan.

Every one of my bags is already overweight by 1 to 3 pounds, so we will see how that goes! You never know exactly until you get to the counter at the airport what your bags weigh. We will have to go through the weighing process 6 times on this trip. I haven't counted how many times we will deal with customs yet. They always give our dental supplies some interesting looks. So far we have not had to deal with any demands for bribes or duty. Ethiopia charges 100% duty on things you bring in, if they feel like it. They charged our friend $1000 to bring in his video projector. They promised to give it back when he took it back out of the country, they did, but they did not make it easy either.

You can tell I am stressed. Hopefully that will all leave as soon as I sit on the first plane and know nothing else is in my control from there on out! Just go with the flow.

More later.

Love You All, Janet

Still Packing

I have never made a blog before, so we'll see how this goes!

Dee and I have our 4 bags packed with the allowed 50 lbs. each. I have about 15 lbs. to still get in and still end up with 4 bags weighing 50 lbs. each! Its a challenge, but it will happen!

We are leaving Feb. 23rd for Nigeria. I will just summarize our plans, you may already know what they are. In Nigeria we are working with a group affiliated with Steve Saint, training 16 people to do fillings and extractions in 6 days. Start to finish! Dee and I cannot wait to see this happen. We will leave Nigeria March 2nd and go to Ehiopia. There we will work with Samaritans Purse training one of their workers. Then go on a two week medical/dental mission with Jewish Voice. We are praying Dee can get a license to practice dentistry in Ethiopia, that will open a lot of doors for us. April 7th we will leave for Nepal. We will be doing more training while there. We will be staying with Yam Devi, who we trained last year. She will be in charge of where we go and what we do. At this point, we have no idea what that might be.

Please keep us in your prayers for safety and health. Now that I know about the bugs in the rice maybe I will come home skinny!!

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog. We'll see what I am able to do with it! I don't know how often I will be able to get to a computer.