It is kind of hard to imagine Christmas is only a few weeks away when these beautiful flowers are blooming beside the road... they are sooo pretty. The bushes are several feet taller than I am. I picked a big bouquet to put on the table on Thanksgiving Day but they don't last more than a few hours after they are cut, so it didn't turn out as planned. 

     School has just let out for the day... so some of the boys are playing a quick game of "football" (what we call soccer) before they go home. The building in the background is the school where these children go. It is a one room building with no desks that I can see, only backless benches and/or cement blocks to sit on. 

     Keith and Candace are coming this weekend to visit for a week. Hopefully some decisions can be made while they are here to determine what to do from here on out. We have been able to get an order of medications delivered. One of the local brethren has a kamyon to haul produce down to Port-au-Prince. Jay got it worked out for the medication order to be delivered somewhere and this man picked it up and brought it up the mountain in his truck. This week we are trying a grocery pick up service to get some groceries for our house. They will also be brought up on the truck. The challenge currently is what to do about nurses to work in the clinic after Christmas. Everyone is in agreement that now is not a good time to bring in a new American or Canadian nurse. So the nurse from Missouri who was planning to come in January is tentatively on hold. Right now we don't know if either of the Haitian nurses will be coming back or not. Roseline is engaged to be married at the end of January. Chancela has worked here for 3 years I think. She hasn't said yet if she will be coming back or not. But the clinic can't operate without nurses... so this is something to add to your prayer list. 

     I have a ticket to fly back home on December 14. I will go back to the Dominican Republic with Keith and Candace on the 13th and we will all fly out on the 14th.