Marathon Day

Wow, what a day! We had a lot to do today and we started early. We were at the Ministry at 6:45 this morning and began the crazy day. We were waiting for our “To Whom Letter”. The new Minister was beginning work today and we were able to meet with her briefly after she had signed our letter. Then we waited for some other pieces of paperwork and at about 10:45am we were on our way. After this Jeff went to the Emigration office to finish processing Isaac’s passport. We had already submitted our application but needed to bring our “To Whom” in order to finish the process. This was completed and we had his passport in hand by 1pm. Then to the US Embassy. We are forever grateful to the wonderful Consulate, who on her last day in this office worked so hard, above and beyond, for all the families. By 3pm we had submitted all the documents to her and she was going to work to get as many of the families’ travel packets prepared as she could, we were all told to return at 5pm to see what she had. We knew this was our last needed document to leave the country and our flight was scheduled for 1:30am Saturday. All the moms and children waited, not so patiently, at the hotel while the dads returned for the verdict. At about 6pm they returned with all 11 children’s travel packets! Praise the Lord! We are so excited and relieved to be able to make our flight tonight and our medical appointments tomorrow in Ethiopia.

So, we are all packed and ready, in about 20 min we will gather the remainder of our documents here and head to the airport. It will be interesting to see how all the kids do on the flight and tomorrow after a less restful night. We are going to miss Rwanda for sure but so glad to be headed to Ethiopia, which is one step closer to home. We don’t think we have that much to do while we are there, but will be eager to finish up and take our kiddos home. Off we go, just wanted to share our exciting news.

Praising God-Sheri