Praise and Request Update

In case you hadn't heard, our bags were lost on the way here. We made the plane from DC to Ethiopia, but they didn't! And the next plane to ethiopia got here Saturday, followed by the little hopper from Ethiopia to Uganda and then on to Rwanda. So after many calls to different people whose first language was not english, a very helpful man in the Kigali airport tracked them down, and we were able to pick them up today! What a joy to put our own clothes on and return those we'd borrowed from our hosts. God is good.

A few prayer requests:
1. Pray for Zeke. He has a bad chest cold, cough, congestion and seemed slightly feverish today. They'd also given him some cough syrup so he was pretty glazed over and lethargic. He actually fell asleep in my arms, which was precious apart from the reason for it. The nuns say, "They all have that pretty much all the time," which makes sense since they live in a petrie dish, but is disconcerting for the mommy and daddy. And we aren't allowed to take him from the orphanage to see a doctor until after our court appointment finalizing the adoption (probably Tuesday or Wednesday). Please pray for his health and for us to entrust him to Jesus.
2. Tomorrow starts the real race to get all the stuff done we need to before all the offices close for Good Friday, including documents from the Minister in charge of adoption (the MIGEPROF), the Act of Adoption, our Court papers, Letter of approval from the Sisters at the orphanage, Travel approval papers from the MIGEPROF, passport photos and application, all of which must be translated and notarized before our appointment at the American embassy to seal the deal. We're slightly stressed and are needing to trust God to pave the way. We honestly think it may take a few mini-miracles to complete it all by the end of Thursday.

Now for some more fun pics of Zeke...



This is our driver. He asked us to call him Bebe. He speaks english pretty well.


Here's Heidi and Kristen (our hostess) standing in front of the home we're staying in. God has been caring for us though his body in amazing ways.