Home Sweet Home!!!

I'm home --- I'm tired and will try to post some with photos after some rest.
Thanks for all the prayers.
Love Mary

Leaving on a Jet Plane

9-16-08 Arkansas Time 2:52 am

On raod to Kilmangaro 10:45 be at airport at 5 pm fly 8:40 pm.

Safari

9-15-08 Arkansas Time 12:02 pm

Safari Today saw lots of animals on way to lodge will try to call before plane leaves.

Safari

9-15-08 Arkansas Time 1:12 am

Monday on way to Safari. Hope to see more animals.
Tomorrow we will leave Arusha and go to Kilamanjaro and
will fly at 9pm will arrive home Wed 4:40 pm

Praying

9-14-08 Arkansas time 5:36 am

We are safe and well.
We have heard of storms -----praying for your safety

Arusha

9/13/08 Arkansas Time 2:53 am

Arrived Arusha safely, no cell service ----updates will be few--- Hotel Moivara coffee
plantation TOP SERVICE..
Today Arusha Park tomorrow tour coffee plantation.
Monday big game park,
Tuesday Mt. Kilamanjo-----flying home later night love to all

Still riding

9-12-08 Arkansas Time 7:31 am

Still on bus for Arusha will update whenever we arrive.

All Aboard

09/12/08 Arkansas Time 12:40 am

Loaded on bus for Arusha will travel 8 hours on public transportation simular to grayhound bus. We have 1 young white girl on bus traveling alone. Please pray for her safety -------leaving dar 0835 Friday------12:35 am AR time

Packing

9-11-08 Arkansas Time 3:49 PM

I have completed packing. Tomorrow we have bus tickets to Arusha. We are to leave the hotel at 0700 for the bus station --- We leave Dar es salaam at0800 and it will take about 8 hours 2 Arusha. Sat we plan to sight see. Today saying goodbye to the workers was very hard.

update from Mary

This is Mary, we have limited time to use the net --- we have had a good trip and very successful. tomorrow we will be traveling to the upper part of the country. please pray for our safe travel. I love and miss you all and cannot wait to tell you all about the trip. It has been very emotional time for us all. I must go and try to pack all my things into one bag. See you soon!!!! If anyone sees my babys give them a hug and tell them I miss them. Love Mary

September 11, 2008 12:52 PM

On Bus

9-11-08 Arkansas time 12:42 AM

Working at church today 0830 on bus now

Day 3 - Patients

9-10-08 Arkansas time 2:16 p.m.

Day 3 of seeing patients is complete. Today we were at the church -----good day----Please pray----We had a young girl from the church that fell and we think has a broken elbow. We placed her in a sling and she was sent to the hospital-----probably need surgery.

Safe and Well

09/09/08
Arkansas time 10:44 pm

Please tell everyone we are safe and well. Please continue 732 (praying for us) we have seen God working even before leaving Little Rock.

Good day

09/09/08

Good day! All is well

300 patients

09/08/08

About 300 patients today long day----too much to tell. We were at a school today. Good day! Long day! Thought I was at work stopped working after 7:30 pm.

Sunday Update

Received the following at 7:28 am
3 pm Leaving Church no lunch yet heading to ocean for Baptism then eating Lunch

Saturday Update

Received the following from Mary at 2:39pm
We are in Dar Es Salaam trying to get through Customs.

Received the following from Mary at 4:42pm
We are in Blue Pearl Hotel. Church tomorrow with Baptism.

Friday Update

Hello Everyone,
Mary has asked me to keep her blog updated for her. I recieved the following from her via Text around 10:50 pm our time.

We are now flying over the tip of Greenland the TV shows -59f 565mph 7:11pm Arkansas Time. We have about 3 hours before amsterdam. So far there is 10 and 4 more will meet at next stop. So far flights good. It's 2:30 am so I need to take a nap may turn Indiana Jones movie back on boring!!!!! We just touched down next stop Tanzania!

Continue to keep them in your thoughts and Prayers!

Salley

If all goes on schedule ---- by this time in the A.M. I should be on a DC9-50 leaving Memphis headed to Minneapolis/St Paul in route to Tanzania Africa.

As I sit trying to compose this blog post I am faced with also trying to compose myself. I don't know if I can explain how I feel or not but I will try. First several have asked if I am nervous or not and the answer is NO -- I know that no matter what all is going to GOOD. You ask if I am excited and the answer is YES -- how could one not be excited to have a chance to do something like this -- It is an opportunity of a lifetime. But I guess mainly I would have to say I feel extremely BLESSED -- blessed that God has given me this opportunity to travel 10,000 miles from home and do His work, blessed that I have a family that loves the Lord and supports me in my decisions to serve our Lord, blessed that I have such a LOVING & SUPPORTIVE Church Family and blessed that I have a great group of co-workers that have supported and encouraged me.

Well I have a million things to do --- But new prayer concern is that there is NO ELECTRICITY in parts of Sheridan which means that I can't take my suitcase to the post office for preweighing ----- so pray that it is not more than 50 lbs ---- It maybe time to start stage III of the packing stage (that would be unpacking and repacking of the unpacked and repacked suitcase) to see what I might be able to leave out. But the only thing is when I unpacked and repacked the first time I think I put in more stuff!!!!!!:):)

Bags are packed ------I THINK!!!!!!

It is 9:42 p.m. Monday night and I think I have completed packing my bags (except for the last minute things to go in the purse that I'm taking). Now PRAY that they don't open my bags and go through them ------ I don't know if I can get it all packed back in the same way!!!! Do you have any idea how much stuff you can get in two suitcases? Now the trick is finding shoes and clothes to wear for the next few days.