I-171H is here

WOOOHOOO our I-171H paper finally came in the mail yesterday. I took everything to our agency today and now our papers will be translated and then we wait! It's so exciting knowing that our paperwork is finished and we will soon be logged into Albania to be adopting parents!! What's cool is how God is working in this adoption. Yesterday I only taught one lesson b/c it's been so cold. The girl I was teaching, her family is waiting to get their little girl from China, so she understands all of this paperwork and waiting. When she came down for her daughters lessons she said that the Lord had put me on her heart so heavy today that she stopped what she was doing to pray for us and the paper we have been waiting on. When Jason checked the mail yesterday there it was! Praise God!

Waiting on Dossier Paper

Our homestudy has been complete as well as an 8 week course to better prepare us for international adoption. We are currently waiting on one piece of paper from the state that is suposed to be here by the first week of Feb. Once that is here our dossier will be turned in, translated, and then we will be in the waiting proccess!!

Our Start

I received a phone call from Jason while I was at a horse show in Bowling Green, KY. I was in the hotel room that night preparing for the devotional I would lead the next morning for Cowboy Church. Jason told me that his heart was troubled and he felt he needed to spend more time with me (he is a very hard worker and his job takes up a lot of his time). I told him that was great. I got back to work on rewriting my notes and felt this was not what the Lord wanted me to speak on, for the next hour I read and felt unsettled until I came upon the scripture. The Lord spoke to me like He was sitting there in front of me. I spoke the next morning on priorities and going where God was calling you. That night I got back home, Jason and I prayed together, we knew something was going on. The next day I received a wonderful phone call telling me that we were approved to adopt! Praise God, He had been preparing our hearts!