Hiya Family and Friends,
Merry Christmas! What a special time of year this is to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. I pray you can enjoy this holiday with family and friends and truly focus on the reason for the season.
I am just returning from another trip to Dar es Salaam to work on finalizing my work permit and I praise God that the woman working in the Ministry of Health office said it would be completed next week. This is such a huge answer to prayer to have this, especially as in January I head to the Lake Victoria area of Tanzania to do some more hands on nursing as I shadow a team that includes 1 doctor and 3 nurses to increase my knowledge of medicine in this part of the world. I have a lot to learn with tropical medicine and look forward to gaining experience in HIV/Aids ministries. So anyway I am very thankful to soon have a work permit, after over 6 months of work to get it.
You may wonder what we are doing for Christmas. For December 24th, we will have a team member, Mary, and another single missionary woman visiting us, Kim, over for dinner. Christmas Day we will spend at our church. Our pastor is putting on a Christmas presentation and there will be lots of food and fellowship. From what I hear, many people come from the community. I am excited to experience this. A few days later, our team will come into town and celebrate Christmas Eve and Christmas day together. We drew secret santa's to buy presents for and will plan to cook lots of good food. It is not home, but again we are so blessed by our team and community and I look forward to celebrating together.
Rejoice! Merry Christmas!
Christmas Blessings,
Emily
PS-Sorry this is so short, have to head back to the village!
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Hi Emily,
ReplyDeleteBest wishes for a Happy New Year! This is Rob, the guy you sat next to on an airplane going to Colorado last February. I just remembered the address of your blog and decided to look it up so I could hear all about your adventures. I'm glad things are going well in Tanzania, and now that I've discovered your blog, I'm looking forward to reading the back entries and continuing to stay abreadst of your adventures.
Things are good with me. I was in India for work last October and that was really an eye opening experience. Anyway, I guess I should get back to work since I'm at my desk right now, but I just wanted to say hi!