One year ago today we were so blessed, we saw God's hand, yet again, on us. It would be impossible for us to ever say we didn't know if God was with us...wow was He ever. We had our issue over the weekend, along with 3 other families in our group we were missing some paperwork we absolutely needed to bring Isaac home. We had finally communicated to those in Rwanda what we were all missing but we didn't know how we would get them. We heard early this morning that our documents were in Ethiopia!
We had met another family with a different agency while we were at Home of Hope visiting with Isaac. This lovely couple, and their beautiful daughter, were a joy to visit with on our few days at Home of Hope without anyone else from our travel group. It was so quiet on those days, just our 2 families both gazing intently on our new babies. We had then been with this family at the Embassy on the Friday when we were all applying for our visa packets. They received 1 of the 14 packets issued that day; however they were not leaving Rwanda until Sun. Our poa had gathered the medical papers and other documents we were missing then located this couple and passed it all over to them. What an amazing gift that they carried all our papers with them on the flight and dropped them at the medical center where we needed them. Only God could have arranged that they were traveling then, that we had met them, ... all the details.
A few of us were able to run over the the medical center, pick up our package, a joy to see the handwritten note from our poa, and take them to the nurse. She then got the info to submit in our evaluations and they were taken to the Embassy that day. It was great to know that all of our kids' medical evaluations were at the Embassy and we were 1 step closer to going home.
After we got the documents picked up at the medical center we went to another medical center. 2 of the children in our travel group were 2 so they needed to have a tb test as well as the other medical exam. We sat with these families as they waited to see the doctor for the test.
Next, we located a photo shop-leaving the 2 families who had their babies with them- and returned to the guest house, I ran up the 4 flights to get Isaac and knocked on each door on my way up. We all went sprinting with the babies down around the corner to get pictures taken. It was a hot, stuffy, crowded little shop. But it was so fun to see each baby get their first professional photo. We had to have just the right size photo to attach with the rest of the required documents to apply for their visas.
That night we had a wonderful birthday celebration. Our little roommate, Avivah, had her 2nd birthday this day! One of the families had located a bakery and ordered a cake, several members of our group worked on putting up some decorations and all of us had a wonderful evening celebrating her first birthday with her family. Happy Birthday sweet Avivah!!
Sheri
These posts all make me cry! Thanks for bringing the memories back so fresh! I never thought I'd say this about our time in Ethiopia, but this makes me want to go back! :) What an experience.
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