Joy and Patience

We are soooooo excited to be matched 🙂 We have a daughter and every time I think about it I am filled with joy. The kids are excited, we are excited, I love talking about her and soon we should be able to set up facetime calls with her. Our family has been approved by immigration and now we are in step 2 of the immigration process. In this step, we submit ALL the paperwork about our daughter to immigration so they can confirm she is truly an orphan and that this is not a human trafficking operation (this is done by everyone who desires to adopt internationally). We should be able to send everything early next week and then wait for them to approve us (about 4 weeks). After that the embassies talk to one another and we start making travel plans 🙂

Prayer Requests:

1. Please pray for our paperwork to go through quickly and smoothly
2. Please pray that the Lord would provide financial support through his people.
3. Please pray specifically for me (Amanda) to grown in patience. I am really struggling with having a daughter I can’t physically be with and I just want to go get her right now.** While this is understandable, it is effecting me pretty drastically. Because I have to exert so much patience on waiting for the paperwork to be approved/the day I meet our daughter, I have very little for anyone or anything else. I realize that the past few weeks I have tried to conjure this patience from within myself rather than asking for the Spirit to fill me with it. My love for her should not bring about impatience but patience (1st Cor 13, Gal 5). Thank you!

** I want you to know that our daughter is being well cared for and loved. Part of our cost pays for doctor visits and a personal social worker in this waiting period. I am not concerned about her safety I just want to start our life together. 🙂