Asbury VIM Construction/Water Well mission trip - Entry 1

Habari

The team has reached Tanzania . We left Tulsa on schedule at 6:00 am Thursday arriving in Detroit . There we enjoyed a great brunch at the Cracker B arrel. From there it was on to the Henry Ford museums. We had a limited amount of time there and then back to the airport. B o was the first one off to Amsterdam . We tried in vain to get him moved to the flight the remainder of the team was on but to no avail. We rejoined B o at Amsterdam and then after a couple hour layover it was on to Dar. We arrived on schedule to find all of our luggage as well as Robert, Linda and Grant waiting to pick us up. The travel indeed had gone smoothly.
We spent the night at the Catholic guest house (God bless those Catholics) and awoke for a 7:00 am breakfast. At the same time the water well team met with their contractor Wilson to discuss the progress and problems of the deep wells that they are attempting. The construction team moves on to the LJS for some more rest.

At the Catholic guest house Glen experienced his first internet problem. He spent much time composing a message to send back only to have the system go down and then they switched from the power grid to their generator and then there was something else so he never got a message off.

We are currently resting at the LJS awaiting the water well team. We lunched on potatos, rice, greens and meat with bananas for a fruit. We did stop on the road for some cashews. The construction team (Dwight, B o, Glen, B ill and Mike) are staying a the guest house adjacent to Grant's while the water Well team (Jack, Robert and Mark) will be staying in the rooms for the language seminary.

Sometime ask Jack how well a 6 ft 5 inches guy fits into the KLM economy seats. Pray that the return trip he can get the bulkhead.

Tomorrow we go to one of the villages to worship.

Mike Mastraccio