An update

Greetings,

Well, where to start.  Those of you who have children living far away, will know the feeling of that separation.  And I do pray about this all the time.  Sure do miss our kids.  But when they have problems, it's a whole lot harder being so very far away and not being there to even give a hug or comfort to them.  That has been a huge burden on me these last few weeks. (But I think all moms can relate!)  Add into that some problems here.  Nothing major, but when you're down, everything seems major.  Then, add into that, the frustration of this one signature needed for Savanah to go home to her new family.  Well, in my frustration...

I got mad.  I wrote the Canadian Embassy and explained the whole situation here with Savanah and that Guerline (her adoptive mom) has sent the papers to them 4 times and they only got it once and then lost it.  I asked several questions.  Got one back from them saying you have to talk to someone else, and they gave me an email address for them.  I emailed the same letter to them... and their reply was very quick.  I had asked if I got the papers and had them HAND DELIVERED would they accept them.  They said yes and gave me the time and days I can get it there.  I immediately sent that and a letter to Guerline and said FAX those papers to me through MFI.  Gave her the info to do it.  Emailed Larry @ MFI and told him what was going on.  He said, "Get them here and they will be on Thursdays plane for you!"   This was all yesterday morning.  I ran over to the dorm and told Pam and Luke, (our team) and tried my hardest NOT to cry. (and I didn't).  WOW, the response from the team was awesome!!  They are praying.  Then we left for the airport and Pam and group left for home (via MFI).   

So many, many people are praying, and I'm having such a hard time not crying.  But I won't believe it until I am actually on the plane with her.  And it MAY BE that she will have a Canadian passport...so we could possibly go through the states.  Which is what I was wishing.  I'll be checking with Guerline on that one.  Truth?? I'm afraid to believe it is happening.  I have been here so many times before.  So pray for me, okay?

OH, got home and there was another email from Guerline and one from Larry.  Guerline said fax didn't go through.  Only to page 7, then it quit sending it.  Then wrote again and said someone from MFI called and said YES, we got ALL 16 pages.  Then Larry wrote and said, Got the papers and they are in the pilot bag for Thursday's flight.  Now making arrangements to send it to Port to Remy to take to the consulate on Tuesday morning!!  PRAY!!!

Vero went back to Hensch (however it's spelled)... and saw an American specialist today.  She gave her a prescription for the same meds Dr. Bibiana got her and told her to get an exercise bicycle to exercise her legs.  We went on line and ordered one for her.  Walking is not what she needs, she needs to use her legs more in the cycle mode.  She IS feeling a lot better already from being on the meds from Bibiana.  She had been having some problems breathing and now she is doing great with that, too.

So, even in my frustration, the Lord was working.  And we brought 4 people home with us to spend a week.  They came in to put a roof over the container at the airport, for MFI.  Dan and Heather (from MFI) are good friends, and they brought 2 fellows who seem to be really hard workers.  We had hired two of our workers to work with the guys.  But yesterday they all said they want to help MFI out and they had agreed to split whatever pay these two were given, if they could help.  We really do have some neat workers. 

This morning we were to get up and leave by 6:15 AM to get to the airport by 7.  Well, it's still dark, but figured that wasn't much of a problem.  But the generator, that normally has been turned on at 5 or so, never came on.  Changed our departure time to 7:15, so the guys could eat and get some coffee in them.  So loaded up Dan, Heather, Leo and Nathan and headed out.  Picked up some of our guys on the way.  I'm including some photos with this, so you can see what happened the first 20 minutes at the airport.  I got the pictures and left.  Heather and I would have just been in the way out there.  But those guys were running full steam already.  We're praying the skies stay clear of rain and that the sun isn't extremely hot.  The way they are working, it will take no time at all to get this done.  

 

 

So... with all of this, I'm asking your all to pray...for Savanah's paper, for Vero's legs, and for the guys working on our container!!  And please also pray for me as I really AM learning, slowly, to trust and wait on God!!

Have a super great, God blessed day!!