Thursday, July 4, 2013

Day 52 of our adoption journey

I do apologize for the long delay in posting to my blog but we have been staying with some missionary friends and it has been so wonderful to have fellow Christian here to worship with.  I have been able to attend a bible study, church service and an early Morning Prayer service with them.  Kathy was able to attend a ladies bible study.  We were with them for 5 nights and the hospitality and fellowship we had with them will never be forgotten.  Please pray for Daniel and his wife Janette and Tim and His wife Christine as they work hard here to build a church and witness to the lost.   We would have stayed longer but they have a team from California coming in today and the room we were staying in they had already planned for some of the team members to stay in.  But our facilitator was able to help us get another apartment to stay in until Sunday.

The apartment we are in is very convenient to the market and to the tram.  We can almost walk right out the door to the tram.  WOW talk about convenience and the market is on the next block and it is a huge market too.  We now have that time to be with Pasha one on one and we are learning many things about him.  First of all he loves to kid around and I have to remind him when it is appropriate and when it is not.  Also we are finding out for him bedtime evidently means playtime and last night we had to put him in a time out and take away his computer privileges today.  I also communicated to him that he must obey Momma and Dad and he must also respect us.  We knew there was going to be some issues but as Forrest Gump said, Life is like a box of chocolates you never know what you are going to get; however, we will deal with each and work through them each day at a time.

I told Tim today as he was helping me buy train tickets, that God is teaching me more about myself through my children and grandchildren.  And he is showing me many things about myself through Pasha.  And every day he gets up wanting to know if this is the day we will fly home.  He really wants to go home and he knows which clothes he wants to wear as we make the final journey home.  Each morning he makes sure where all of his clothes and personal items are just in case this is the day.  We will be leaving this region and head to the region where the U.S. Embassy is Sunday because we have our first appointment with them Monday.  And also on Monday we “P” will need to have his medical done.  We will return to the Embassy on Wednesday to complete the paper work we can until we get his passport.  Once we have his passport and we can get a visa stamped in it that WE CAN BOOK OUR FLIGHT HOME!!!  So guys please pray that his passport will be printed soon.


There have been some issues with the passports here and none have been printed in the last three weeks.  They are changing the company that prints the passports and all of the necessary paper work was not completed when the date of the change came.  So we are hoping and praying that passports will be printed next week.

Finally I just wanted to say that 29 years ago today God brought another wonderful little boy into our lives at 11:50 AM and today was the first time in those 29 years that we did not get to celebrate his birthday with him.  But as is tradition at our home on the 4th of July he did all of the grilling since we were not there.   So I would like to say Jared, Happy Birthday, was so good to skype with you today and I do pray that you had a great day.  Love you  from Mom and Dad.

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