Almost Christmas!

Wow! Christmas in Haiti! Its been awesome! We've been decorating and singing and just having a wonderful time, but at the same time its not cold! NO SNOW!!!!! NO SLEET!!!! NO ICE!!!!

I LOVE IT! I am still walking around in short sleeves and shorts. It gets a little cool at nights, but I'd say around 65 or so :) I love it! I am pretty nervous about my coming vacation. I will be in NH for three days and there I will visit everyone that I can. I will also die of cold.

I then will go to the "less cold" but still basically freezing state of South Carolina and spend the rest of my vacation there with my family. It will be a nice vacation and good to see everyone.

We have had a CRAZY week here. We had final exams and all sorts of festivities. We still have school Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of next week, but we are pretty much done. I STILL HAVE SO MUCH TO DO!!!! Please pray for me in the coming days.

As far as prayer requests go I have to say that the biggest one is just for guidance for the future. God is definitely calling me to stay in Haiti, but right now the question is under what capacity?

I have to decide by February whether or not I am coming back to work here at the school. February is coming very quickly but I already feel God guiding me every step.

He is so good about that.

Here's a little thing that God even cares about little things. I was at the orphanage today getting their Christmas tree set up. I am becoming well known by my Christmas tree decorating talent :) I never knew I had it but I guess my mom taught me well...THANKS MOM :) So I get there and all the lights that they have don't work. I was so upset. I knew the kids really wanted the lights. I knew how important it was for them. So I went into the office and I just bowed my head and cried out to God. I said, "God these kids really deserve to have a beautiful Christmas tree. One covered with beautiful lights. Please God, please make those lights work." All of a sudden the thought came to me that I had brought lights about three or four weeks before from my own Christmas stuff. I sprung out of my chair and ran and tried them....AND THEY WORKED...not only that but I forgot to tell you that we actually had electricty for one hour in the middle of the afternoon. That may not seem amazing to you, but they never give us electricity before 8 or 9 at night. This was truly a miracle, because we would've put all those broken lights on the tree and never known that they were broken. GOD WORKS ALL THINGS TOGETHER FOR GOOD TO THOSE WHO LOVE HIM AND TO THOSE WHO ARE CALLED ACCORDING TO HIS PURPOSE!!!! Oh and tonight when they got electricity they called me and told me how beautiful the tree looks and how happy the children are. :) That definitely made my day.
hmm... I think I need to find some pictures to post here. I will take a look...I will try to get some pictures of our Christmas party and of all our decorations.

Some of you are probably thinking...ok well what is Maggie doing as far as nursing. I am still working quite frequently as the school nurse. I have also taken on more of a role as the staff nurse. I take care of all the staff people's children and the staff themselves. I take blood pressures a lot. I dispense Tylenol and other such over the counters that people can't afford. I also have started doing speaking arrangements at my church. I will discuss different health topics with different groups of people in the church. The first time I spoke with the youth group. My boyfriend, Balmir and I presented the topic of health for young people together. It was really a great experience and people were very responsive. Then a couple of weeks later my pastor invited me to do a seminar with the sunday school. I decided to do it on the topic of how to know when it is important to go to the doctor or the hospital and when it is something you can take care of yourself. That also turned out to be very good and the most exciting thing about it was it was the first class every for me that I taught TOTALLY IN CREOLE BY MYSELF!!!!! That is a big move for me and I am very excited about that. As many of you know that is my heart and passion is teaching health to people who otherwise would not have access to that.

Wow there is so much more I could say, but when I get home I think I will take some time and write more.

God bless you all and MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!! JESUS IS BORN!!!!!!!!!!

Love always

Maggie-below is me with one of my sweet little friends :)