This Blog Gets The Lame Award Due To Remoteness Of Our Adventure

Thank you for any of you who are still checking in on us. We have literally lived in villages for the entire trip and are now back in the city, where I can update the blog, but we leave tomorrow. So, in a nutshell, we are safe and what an advemnture it has been. Combined, Tyler and I have taken over three thousand photos of this colorful and Nationalgeogrphicy place. I wish I could post some photos here, but I'm on a borrowed machine in our hotel. Please check out our respective Facebook sites in the coming week or so....we will both share our images when we get back.

Without delay, here are some memories from the trip. Ask us for details someday.

- Watching Kristie and Chrissy and Tyler be hygienists for many many combined hours of hard work, making bloody messes of spitting, smiling, grateful villagers.

- Not showering for days and days and days and seeing everybody still smiling every morning.

- mo mo.

- Watching Brian in his element, hanging out with and enjoying the company of kids from 4 to 19, every single day of the trip. The photos of him, surrounded by rabid village kids, in his Big American Cowboy Hat are priceless.

- Hanging out with and getting to know Zack. What a kid.

- Watching Tyler and Chrissy absurdly dance the traditional Nepali dance while the villagers egged them on in laughter and appreciation.

- Seeing Meha work hard, all day every day, going the extra mile till darkness to squeeze in every last patient.

- Watching Gabriel play Ninja with Village kids with the six foot bamboo "Sword" he found.

- Eating a traditional Dunuwar dinner, on a dirt floor by candle light, in a sort of primitive Longhouse, for the Anniversary of the death of Bishwa's mother. It was an honor to be included as family. (the slow shutter photos are amazing)

- The few days where the clouds parted and the mighty Himalaya rose above us in astonishing whiteness and magnitude.

Ok, I gotta run, we are going to see two last patients, friends of Bishwa and Ramila, in our hotel room. I've never pulled a tooth in a hotel room. Wish me luck.
See you soon. We miss you all and can't wait to share.
Over and out from Kathmandu.
Scott

Sorry, Apparently Web Is Not So World Wide....

Its been nine days out in village mode, unplugged from the world. We just pulled into Kathmandu for the first time since our late night arrival on the 26th. I'm blogging from my phone, and its late, so this is really just an update to let yall know we are all safe. I'll update soon with photos and details. See you soon. Goodnight.

Hong Kong and Beyond

Hong Kong.....The land of many noodles and tall buildings. We arrived today a little jetlaggy and dehydrated from the loooonnnng flight, but were ready to escape the airport and hit the town. On the flight, Chrissy won the "Screentime Award" with a total of three movies and two TV series, and Sierra won the "Concrete Eyelids Award" for sleeping eleven hours straight without movement. We just got off the ancient railway train that ascends the super-steep jungle hillside above the city and are now roughing it in an internet-like cafe sipping lattes and eating fine chocolate delicacies. We're all a bit whupped but I think a nice noodle lunch will revive us.......though we had a nice noodle breakfast at 9:00am. Tyler won the "Bad Meal Choice Award" by ordering a steaming bowl of bland macaroni-ish elbows burbling in a clear broth with a thin slice of "lunchmeat" and a fried egg. It looked kinda nasty and the look on his face whilst eating it made the award an easy win for him. We will be heading back to the airport soon, to take a Dragon Air flight to Kathmandu via Bangladesh. The adventure continues....stay tuned.

Now boarding......now boarding....

Here we go. No time left before we hop on the monster 747 staring at us out the window. We're wheels up in twenty. Kathmandu here we come. Thank you to Dan and Nathaniel Barrows for driving us up to the city in our rented 15passenger van. The best part about flying to Asia. I'm the tallest guy in line. Thank you for all the send off prayers. We'll write soon.

Preparing the way

Just because I have a few minutes, I thought I would try to start our blog so that it's out there in cyber space ready to be added to at a moments notice....or when Scott can find time. Because we all know he can make the written word come alive so much that you find yourself right next to him, ready to taste a Samosa from a vendor in Nepal!

Our team has been meeting weekly for a few weeks and has just a couple more opportunities before we leave. If any one of our team members or our trip crosses your mind please join us in prayer. We will be leaving Christmas Day Evening, driving to San Francisco and starting our journey at 12:05a.m. December 26. Our flight pattern goes from SFO to Hong Kong to Kathmandu, Nepal.

Our prayer requests are:
safe travel
safety during dental treatment
health of our whole team (last year our Nepali host was hospitalized!)
team cohesiveness
outreach to children during VBS
clarity during speaking (for leadership trainings)
non-christians to come for service and be curious about the churches who serve them
seeing the Nepali through God's eyes
the family left behind: jeanne, abigail,Zeke,Mimi and Alana Dolan and Bek Jett


We so appreciate your prayers and other partnering you've done with the Dolans and Tyler Hanson and, therefore, the Jetts and Dr. Kapadia. We are grateful for you.