Fill you in on what’s going on.
It’s amazing. Our dossier is to
China. The last leg of the journey is done. Now we wait for China to translate
it and send us our official “Letter of Approval aka LOA” once we get that we
send it to immigration and fill out the paperwork for them to approve her visa.
They send the approval to China to issue a visa. And finally they give us our
approval for our visa and then we book travel and go. We are looking at four to
six months and this all started this week. We don’t have exact date but was
told this past week. Sometime in the beginning of the year you will see a
picture of us as a family of five.
Fundraisers:::
I am sorry I know we got ourselves
into this but it takes a village to raise the money. I wish we just had all
this extra money in savings and we didn’t have to talk about money. This is
hard for me as it is for you. But the end is in sight!
Yard sale has been put off. Some of
the stuff we got given already we did sell and will try to sell more of you.
We are still selling puzzle pieces.
We have sold 102 and have 198 to sell. We need to sell them. $5 each and you
get to right your name on it and we get to show her proudly who helped us bring
her home. Please use paypal or email me and I will give you my address to send
it to. Thank you for your help!
Friday the 12th and Saturday
the 13th we received two grant approvals for a total of $7000!!!!!!!
God is so good. He is showing us his faith and mercy time and time again. His
will his way and we will go from start to end debt free in the adoption
journey! That leaves us with needing to raise $3600 yes that is it. That is all we need to raise and then
we are done. We are so close. Once we raise it we will not ask for another
dime. I promise. I will take oath!
Praying for Gods direction on how to
proceed do we proceed with a fundraiser and try to sell the rest of the puzzle
pieces equaling $990 and raise $2610 or do we send donation letters. Begging
and pleading for everyone to donate $25 and if we go that route we need 144
people to send us $25. Not sure if I know that many people. Guess it is time to
sleep on it pray on it and hope I wake up with a miracle answer. (all grants
have been answered). I know that this is
Gods timing and not ours. I know he has a plan I just don’t know what it is!
Pray and let me know what he tells you. (that is if anyone read this)
Update on ladybug:::
We had a family that went to the
orphanage and got to see ladybug. The wonderful family there said that she was
calling her momma and is ready to get out of there. She said that she is happy
and cheerful and looks great. Such a relief to here and we got new pictures. I
am not at liberty to share but call me and we can have coffee and for $25 bucks
I will share her beautiful face with you!!!
Thank you for walking this journey
with us. Thank you for donating your time praying for us, attending
fundraisers, buying puzzle pieces, and donating money. We appreciate it and
hope you know that.
God does call the qualified he qualifies the called.
$3600 left and we started with
$29,000-32,000
