Deep breath...we found out today that our paperwork has progressed faster than expected and will be submitted to the U.S. embassy on Wednesday morning!! We are beyond excited as this has been what we have been praying about since we left Ethiopia. We were anticipating the paperwork to take 6-8 weeks...and it has been 4 weeks! The US embassy's acceptance and approval of our paperwork will be Elora's ticket HOME!!
We covet your prayers. Things at the embassy can go in soo many ways right now. What was once a simple process has turned upside down. This is the part of the journey where we all hold our breath. Some cases receive approval within weeks; others take months; many end up getting sent out of the country to Nairobi for further review. Without the embassy's approval, our children are not allowed to come home. This is SUCH an agonizing time..
Our friend Julie, who has sent us many precious pictures of Elora, is in the midst of having her paperwork reviewed in Nairobi. After waiting for her paperwork to be approved and spending weeks apart from her sweet Zaidee, she decided to return and is now staying at the Transition House with Zaidee...it's just so HARD to be away from them.
We are asking for prayer that our paperwork, Julie's paperwork in Nairobi, and Jason and Jessica's paperwork - the other couple in Ethiopia with us -all fall into the hands of someone with a soft heart and willing spirit. We desperately long for Elora, Zaidee, and Joshua (their little boy) to be HOME.
We covet your prayers. Things at the embassy can go in soo many ways right now. What was once a simple process has turned upside down. This is the part of the journey where we all hold our breath. Some cases receive approval within weeks; others take months; many end up getting sent out of the country to Nairobi for further review. Without the embassy's approval, our children are not allowed to come home. This is SUCH an agonizing time..
Our friend Julie, who has sent us many precious pictures of Elora, is in the midst of having her paperwork reviewed in Nairobi. After waiting for her paperwork to be approved and spending weeks apart from her sweet Zaidee, she decided to return and is now staying at the Transition House with Zaidee...it's just so HARD to be away from them.
We are asking for prayer that our paperwork, Julie's paperwork in Nairobi, and Jason and Jessica's paperwork - the other couple in Ethiopia with us -all fall into the hands of someone with a soft heart and willing spirit. We desperately long for Elora, Zaidee, and Joshua (their little boy) to be HOME.
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| New picture of Elora that Julie sent me! |
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| Joshua and me at the Transition House |
rejoiced over this happy news many times today... and it continues! :-)
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