14 DAYS

You see this beautiful, worthy, wonderfully made child?

She has 14 days left as an orphan!!! On August 20, she will walk out of her orphanage and into her family. Forever. Beloved daughter, sister, grandaughter, neice, cousin. Adelaide and I leave Omaha next Monday, the 13th, to drive to KC for our flight out on Tues. We arrive in Beijing on the 15th,Wednesday. We acclimate to the time difference and travel to Elsie's province during the next couple days. We rest up on the 18th and 19th. Then we meet our beautiful girl on Monday the 20th. We have more paperwork in her province for the remainder of the week, and then we will fly down to Guangzhou to complete the necessary steps and paperwork and her visa to bring her home. On Aug 30 we will take the train over to Hong Kong, where we fly out on Sept 2. I havent posted for awhile, but basically all you missed was my whiny drama about how long this wait is. So its probably for the best. Elsie's Gotcha Day is Aug 20. Last year on Aug 20 Neil and I asked for Elsie's file to begin this crazy wonderful HARD-but-oh-so-worth-it journey. God is so so good. He blows me away with His deep, profound, tangible love. So it's a big prayer request with this blog post, obviously. Safe flights, prepared hearts all around, and good health. Please pray for a hedge of protection around Addie, Elsie and me. And please pray for Neil and Oscar, Finn, and Zinny that they survive well while I'm gone for almost 3 weeks (!) 😢 Thank you for all your prayers that have carried us this far, may God bless you well. And keep your eyes out for a soon to be orphan-no-more!!