BC Watch

Here's the latest info:

We had some trouble getting our contract agency to send the remaining funds to our referral agency. They took a very slow route to getting the money sent, but it arrived this past Friday ( 2 weeks after our OUT). Now we shall see if the check clears. Then the money will be wired to our attorney in Guatemala so that the remainder of our adoption can proceed. They were waiting on the money to get the Birth Mother's signatures as it is custom to offer to pay for their trip.

We learned that since the girls have a single decree that they have to be processed one at a time. Once one is finished, then the other will be done. Even though this seems like a real delay, our facilitator told me that they just completed another just like it and it was only 10 days. Mainly because there are so few adoptions being processed now. I hope that holds true for our little girls.

The Lord keeps reminding me that this is not our adoption but His and that we need to allow Him to work it out the way He deems best for all concerned. His ways are definitely not mine, but are becoming more so as time goes on. He is making me more teachable all the time.

In summary, after the funds reach GT this week, the birthmothers will sign off on the decrees and then the process of getting the BC's will be begun.

Please pray for the welfare of our attorney and staff in GT. He was mugged & hospitalized over the last couple of weeks. Please pray that he will have a complete recovery. I know he is back at work and he has been a champion on our behalf over the past year. Pray for him spiritually as well. That he would have a saving faith.

APPROVED!

THE GIRLS ARE OUT OF PGN WITH AN APPROVAL!!!

Time does make the blessing sweeter. Does it look like we have some excited kids or what!

New Year News ....

This came tonight from our coordinator in Guatemala:

Milton: The last thing from the second head at PGN (Assistant Attorney General); she told Otto (our attorney) in her office at PGN yesterday ( Monday morning) that, they had performed
a typo on paperwork associated with the file , but they will fix it, and she told Otto to be at the Window on Friday morning this week to pick up the file, we assume it has been approved, but let´s see.

This is encouraging news, but I am not holding my breath. It could just as easily be at the window with a previo to be fixed. Time will tell :)