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Week 8 Wait

Expecting this week to be a 'no news' week, but we did have the confirmation that our dossier arrived in Ethiopia!!  We figured that it was already there with no problems, but it was nice to have a confirmation e-mail from our agency letting us know for certain.

What does that mean?  Well, the dossier it the big pile of papers that we collected over a few months of appointments, official documents, notarized, then state approved, then authenticated by the Federal government.....and after traveling all around the USA, it flew it's way over to Ethiopia!  That is it's final destination and it made it in one piece!!

Now what?  Now we continue to wait 'til one day we'll get an e-mail stating that a referral has been made! This will be the info of the kiddos!

Keep us in your prayers and pray for Tarik and Elsa as we dream of them and hope for them to come to us soon!!

Bible Verse for this week:  "Look at the new thing I am going to do.  It is already happening.  Don't you see it?  I will make a road in the desert.  I will make rivers in the dry land."  Isaiah 43:19

Song by Gungor, All This Time

Watch it here:  http://youtu.be/oyPBtExE4W0/





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