Waiting and Planning

This week we finished ALL of our training!!! Woo hoo!!! We really have learned a lot about Uganda and what we will be looking at when our child comes home. We are going to need a lot of prayer -we learned that for sure! We are also learning so much about orphans, Uganda, and the people of Uganda in general. And we are falling in love. We dream of the day we get to bring our family of 4 (or more...who knows?) to do more mission work there. I know that will be far down the road...which brings me to the reason behind all of this day dreaming...THE WAITING.
We knew we would spend a lot of time waiting when we decided to go on this journey. So, we are trying not to hurry, rush, or be impatient. We, again, are trying to focus on one foot in front of the other. It isn't easy though! And we aren't even that far in! So, God is teaching us a lot. It's so amazing what He is using this time for. Not only am I learning (yet again) to be still, but our family is drawing closer to one another, we are praying more as a family...we are just trusting in the Lord. And we are finding that He will always be there to provide for us.
I was talking to a friend about the financial aspect of this and how overwhelming it can be. I told her that we have NO IDEA how we are going to do this. How we are going to find the funds. We just know that so far, we have had JUST enough for the next step. I found myself getting nervous. We only have enough for the I-600 A. What about when we need lawyer fees, plane tickets, and all the other stuff??? Then, I realized what I was doing. I wasn't taking it one step at a time. God is fully capable of blessing us with $20,000.00. But we are learning so much more this way. We don't need it all today. We just need enough for what's next. And we have it!!! Praise the Lord!
We also hear that the typical 2 month time length it's been taking for the I-600 A to be approved is going faster in Dallas! Nice!
Hopefully, we will be able to send that in next week.
Thanks for the prayers and support. God bless!!!
We leave you with a picture of our garage - aka Josh's used to be man cave. See all the awesome stuff we have had donated to us for the garage sale by friends and family? We are going to try to sell it all at the Stonebridge Ranch Garage Sale on September 18th. So many people have donated (and please keep it coming) that we are thinking we may need to have more than one sale due to space constraints. God is good!!! Thanks to those who have and are donating!!!







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