Whew! Sorry I have been too exhausted and overwhelmed to update until now. We just haven't been home!
So - we are OFFICIAL now! We were able to get fingerprinted at the police station on Thursday and that was our FINAL residency appointment (we think anyway). That was a crazy place. We are so thankful for Silvia - she works for IMM and is also an attorney. She accompanied us to all of our visits and and pushed through to help it all get completed. She was also our translator....so that was HELPFUL! :)
And in case you have not heard - we had our ultrasound Friday...... and the ultrasound tech did know a little English. She said 2 very important words:
"HE'S PERFECT". So that told us 2 things! 1) IT'S A BOY!!!! and 2) He is healthy!
It is unbelievable how much I have "grown" since being here! It's like once I finally stopped throwing up - my belly just POPPED out there! I have only had about 3-4 sick days since we have been here - so I feel very blessed!
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The girls LOVE their new school! The classes are very small and the teachers have such a heart and understanding of what missionary kids face. Transition. And lots of it.
Because of all of the appointments we have had - we have not started house hunting yet. However - THIS week it all begins! House hunting, language study, car hunting...... so the "being busy" is not even close to being over. But it will be so wonderful to feel "settled" once we find our own home and can move in!
PRAYER NEEDS:
1. Everything we own is on a boat being shipped to us. It was determined to be cheaper to ship a container with our household goods than to try and refurnish a home here. Please pray that our belongings arrive SAFELY! :)
2. PLEASE pray that God will open up the right door for the perfect home that he has for us here. We want to feel settled and at peace in the home we end up in. Pray for favor with landlords, good rental prices, and a quick process!
3. PLEASE pray for Macy. As I have mentioned before - since she has been in a new school every year - she has some "gaps" from the change in curriculums. We are praying for God to help her to catch up and learn everything she needs to know! And that God will give her a LOVE for learning and knowledge so that this will not be so hard! We are also praying that God will help her to CONCENTRATE and keep her FOCUS as she tackles so many new topics in order to catch up.
4. Pray for this baby to be safe and healthy. Pray that God will protect him through every part of development and for a safe delivery.
5. Pray that we will be able to find a DEPENDABLE car for a good price quickly! We know God can go before us and direct us!
6. Pray for our language learning to be anointed and swift! Pray for miraculous understanding!
7. Pray for our team at IMM as we work on important media projects. We need God's anointing and favor!
2 comments:
Happy your little one is going to be a boy. Praying with you that all goes as it needs to go, a home & a safe delivery of the baby. I also have a prayer request. My granddaughter,Shannon, had surgery Friday to remove an 8 inch cancer & the ovary it was attached to. In the process the surgeon discovered she has another tumor, about 3 inches in size, that was behind the big one. The second one is attached to her kidney & the blood supply to the kidney & also to her intestine so he didn't do anything about it because he was afraid it would cause her to lose her kidney. He said the kind it is usually responds to chemo. He will set her up for 4 chemo treatments 21 days apart. She has a rough time ahead of her so we'll have to keep praying.
love you guys, praying for you all!! So happy to hear "it's a boy!!" :-))
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