Stuck in Odessa (aka A Big Thank You!)

Thanks to everyone who read and responded to our last journal entry. We so appreciate the prayers and offers to help. We have several people who have volunteered to help, and even someone driving down to Boise Wednesday!

So, God has put all of these people into place, and we are just waiting (not so patiently) for God to work out our homestudy portion of the paperwork problems. The agency director currently is in charge of a large group of Japanese exchange students this week, and is busy with them, and therefore, unable to write our addendum as we originally thought. We are still holding out the hope of getting ahold of our original social worker, although her answering machine indicates she will be unavailable until August 3rd.

So for now, we are hopelessly stuck in Odessa – tired of being tourists, missing our kids, and unsure how to proceed forward. We keep thinking that since God put all the other pieces into place within one day of our asking, that surely the homestudy portion will be forthcoming. At this point, it would definitely have to be a God-thing, because we have done all we can do.

Thank you for your prayers. We ask for specific prayers that either our homestudy addendum gets written so that it will be hand-carried down to Boise as we have arranged, or that our hearts are turned away from this sibling group, and we are emotionally prepared to go back to the National Adoption Center for another appointment to choose other children.

Signing off, bored and extremely frustrated,

Kristen and John