July 5th update

Things are going well the first couple days. We arrived Friday early afternoon with only a few minor glitches. We were delighted to find that we were getting a room instead of living in our tent. We like the tent because it is cooler at night than the rooms, but the room has it’s own bathroom. The fans we brought do a good job keeping us cool at night when the power goes out, and not having to walk to the common restrooms in the middle of the night is well worth having to rely on fans for a breeze.


We spent the rest of Friday and most of Saturday moving in and getting acclimated to the weather. I’m thinking that will take another couple days (NOT). Sunday was church services and rest. Today we hit it hard. Lots of new supplies to find a place for and cleaning. That should take us another couple days and then we are going to organize the supply rooms.

We were told when we got here that the US Navy was going to be sending a surgical team on a humanitarian mission the end of the month which was putting a time crunch on us. We met with them today and it now appears that they want to fly the patients to a naval ship off the coast to do the surgeries and only need us to supply the patients and help with the logistics. Lori and I have asked if the surgical team could use some help and we might fly out to the ship and help with the surgery.

Cinnamon is adjusting well to her new home. She knows the way to our room when we say we are going home, and she is not starving for attention with 110 people plus staff on campus.

Thanks for your continued prayers and support. Love to all.