Hello Myanmar!!

My beautiful children,

Our first full day in Myanmar is over. It has been a little hectic here. There is so much to learn. 

I will try to tell you some of what we have been doing. 

Our flight over was nuts. We got delayed in SL due to a lightning strike and missed our flight out of LA so luckily they were able to reroute us through Tokyo.  We had lots of wait times in airports. We left out house at 4:00 am Monday and arrived at 3:00 Wednesday afternoon here.  The flight from Tokyo to Thailand was 7 hours. The plane was so much smaller than we are used to.  There was NO leg room. It was so painful.  We arrived in Bangkok at 5:00 am. Our mission president was there to pick us up. We had a great time with him and all the office staff. They are amazing people, mostly Thai. At that point it had been about 38 hours of travel. I could hardly hold my eyes open.   We then caught a  plane to Myanmar. The Sipples (the couple that we are replacing), Tun (our driver), and a few others were there to greet us. Dr. Winn sent some people over.  It was so strange getting our visas. I was walking toward the counter to get in line and a guy yelled at me "hey is this picture of you". He was holding up a paper. I had no idea. Some girl ran it over to me and yes it was.  She would not let us go any farther, took our passports  went to the front of the line and then came back and said "ok you can go".  They had been waiting for us.  

We got to our apartment and dropped off our bags and then the Sipples took us to dinner.  Yikes, I was too tired to even eat.   The food has been an interesting experience.  Most of the stuff, we don't even know what it is.  Dad is being a lot braver than I am. 

We did not sleep great last night we have hopes for tonight. 

The power is out right now  it keeps going out. So I am writing this on my phone.  We are on the third floor so it is very hot when the power goes out here.  

Thanks beyond words for all your amazing words of love.  I have been lifted up by  them.  

Mom