Where to begin....?

Let me first say that when ur spouse is gone u are reminded of how much a helpmate they are to u! Since Sunday Abby has been in Mt. Sterling on a mission trip for which I am so excited to see that passion for missions wailing up in her again! Since we are mostly certain that we will be traveling once before the end of the year to Ethiopia I have to bank as much of my vacation as possible so I wasn't able to go with her! I expected to use that time to get the house caught up, mow the grass, clean the house maybe do alittle fishing and with bow season opening up in September maybe even go scouting but none of that happened! I closed at Panera on Sunday and Monday and Monday afternoon I got a phone call from USCIS whom calmly left me a message saying there was one small problem with our application and I needed to call as soon as possible! Being at work I wasn't able to call until Tuesday(woke up sick throwing up) where I was told that since we obviously didn't read the request for an amendment to our application that we were being considered for denial. But they were going to gve us another chance if were able to get this fixed immediately! This began a llllooonnngggg drawn out process that took approximately 5 hours to resolve going back and forth between our home study and uscis. All the while remember I am on a solo mission with Abby being gone! In the end I was headed out the door to fax a paper from work giving permission for uscis to contact our homestudy group when I got a call from uscis saying, Mr. Robinson I have good news! I spoke to my supervisor regarding ur application and see feels that u have met all the requirements and have given me the go ahead to approve ur application!". Do what!?! I felt like asking if she was loco? But instead I opted for thank you and I hung up the phone! After shedding a few tears over the whole ordeal I checked my email only to discover that Holt International had sent an email letting us know that. Our dossier was now in Ethiopia!

God certainly hasn't given us this opporunity on a silver platter but I still hold to the promise that he is in control! What a journey it has been so far and even though we have quite a long road left to go with some big financial hump in the way I know we are following in God's footsteps! We are counting on some rough terrain before the end but He has made lite the way for us to go!