So many exciting things this week:
Monday we had our last home study meeting!!!! So now we are just waiting on the Social Worker to get it all typed up. This will take a couple of weeks.
I was cleared medically so now we should be able to get all the notarized paperwork from the doctor next week! Also our certified birth and marriage certificates arrived this week!! One step closer!
I finished a few of the rice bags and officially started our first fundraiser. I am planning and working hard to figure out some other fundraisers!
One of the most exiting things is we got new pictures and video!!!!!! These pictures and video mean the WORLD to us! The pictures showed him signing "I Love You" and another was of him eating! I felt so comforted that God was answering a few of my prayers through these pictures. The video's we got were from a Christmas celebration and one of him singing with his teacher and class! Can I just say our boy has rhythm!! The boys were so excited to see how much he seems to love music! He was laughing and so enjoying the song!
Perhaps the most evidence that I have seen God's hand this week was in Oliver and his buddy. In every video and picture we have we see the same little boy. From the few people we have connected with at the orphanage they are best buds! I love knowing that he has a little buddy with him each day. Well I was able to connect with his buddies mom!!! So many wonderful things have already come from the connection. She and her family spent about 15 days in Oliver's room last January. I know in a years time a child changes a lot, but she was able to share her personal experiences with Oliver. Gold absolute gold. Thank you Lord for such a gift. It is what I needed this week. He LOVES to be cuddled, has a sweet personality, and is "robust" as she put it!!! Her family is in the same step, just finishing up the home study, that we are! So while I realize it is a remote chance that we would travel at the same time, God could make that happen!! Once we learned that his buddy was adopted as well I have prayed that the timing would be close for both boys. They are obviously close and I imagine it will be hard for whichever boy is left at the orphanage without their friend. So we will continue to pray that God will work out the timing to be close!! While talking with his buddy's mom they will be in the states for a while after the adoption and guess where she will be staying. Out of all 50 states she will be in Grand Rapids! Praise the Lord. I have no doubt that God is working in these two boys lives and that our families will be connected for a long time! God is so amazing!!!
Not so exciting is that our home study agency mailed us the only copy of the notarized reference letters and they have not come. They mailed them before Christmas and now seem to be missing. I am still praying she made a mistake and they are at the office and will be found or that they will show up in our mailbox.
All in all this week was wonderful!!!! Many weeks go by that we don't get pictures/video or see many steps forward in the process. So thankful that we were able to have those moments this week. In a couple of weeks we hope to have more pictures as we put together a photo album of our family and a few small things for Oliver and sent it with a family that is traveling to his orphanage in a couple of weeks. Then Oliver will see the family that God picked for him!!!
So if you want to pray here are a few things we would love prayer for:
- Our Social Worker as she writes the home study. Accuracy, speediness, stamina! It is a lengthy document!
- Our fundraisers!
- Close timing in the adoption of Oliver and his friend.
- Our reference letters to be found.
- Peace and patience in the process
- For Oliver and our family
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