Modern Day Missionaries : Hello from Tanzania!

We made it here safely on Sunday evening— we’re glad those flights are over J. On Monday morning, we had a nice 11 hour drive from Dar Es Saalam and arrived in Iringa Monday evening. This is where we’ve been since!

It’s only been three days but we both feel like we’ve already gained so much knowledge. We’ve had many discussions with our group here; helping to inspire each of us to live to our fullest potential while also contributing to the world to initiate change that will be sustainable.

Meanwhile, we’ve also had conversations with school masters, water drilling companies and tomorrow we’ll be meeting with village leaders to discuss the well that we’ll drilling later this week. Tomorrow we will also be visiting a few villages where E.P.I.C. has already drilled wells. We’re both looking forward to seeing this in action and seeing the responses of the people who are using these wells and how it has helped in their day to day lives.

Later this week we’ll be doing a couple different walks for water. We’ll be traveling the distance that the people travel to find their current source of water. We’ll be wearing our fit-bits, so we’ll report back on how many steps and the length of time that this journey takes. Part of the purpose of this is for us to understand the conditions that many people take every day just to receive water (in many cases, contaminated water at best).

We don’t want to bore you with so many words so we’ll share some photos instead.

Thank you very much for all your prayers—please continue to keep us in your thoughts and prayers for health, safety and positivity and love to radiate to all of those we come in contact with while here in Tanzania.

With Love,

Ty + Michelle

Half way through our 26 hour day of traveling- we made it to Amsterdam.

This is Bibi, she is the mother of our family here in Tanzania-such a kind woman with a huge heart.

This is our little sister, Orina-- she became a fast friend! Her dad is our team leader from Tanzania.

This is a photo taken in downtown Iringa.

Some of the students from the school we visited that EPIC will be teaming up with in the future. As you can see there is some clean up work that will be much appreciated.