National Dental Week Festivities

The festivities for Dental week were held at the Antanambao - Manampotsy town square. The local ladies dancing club provided the opening entertainment and were a big hit with the more than two thousand people gathered for the program.

Sister Bird gave the speech, representing the LDS Humanitarian Services. Gaby, as always, does a great job of interpreting. She always gets a big ovation when she tells how we have left our children and grand children in America to come to Madagascar to serve the people.

It was our privilege to be on the program with the National Minister of Health, Dr. Henri RANAIVOHARISOA. He was a warm and friendly man and expressed the desire to meet with us again. He said he had seen our large beautiful church in Switzerland. We think he was referring to the Temple there.

Elder Fitts and Elder Secrist ( the nephew of the Elder Secrist we knew in Great Falls ), join us in distributing tooth brushes to the village children. We were told that we were the first Americans ever to visit this area. We will never know if this is really true, but it sounds nice and makes a good story.