PRAY!!

Please pray!! On Monday during our meeting we were told about a set of children that fit what we qualify for (2 siblings under the age of 3) and even more, that are in many ways, answers to our prayers. We can't give details and even Caleb and Hannah don't know the details, like age and sex because we are waiting on government paperwork. Therefore we need prayer!!

1. Even though Doug and I have not seen any pictures and only know the age, sex and that they are healthy normal children, it is SO HARD to wait knowing that they are spending their days and nights in an orphanage.
2. Please pray that this isn't Satan's handiwork tempting us with children that are close to a direct answer to prayer, skewing our path to the children that God has for us.
3. If these children that have been mentioned are to be little Amundsons, please pray that God would miraculously supply the paperwork we need and fast.

There are 2 sets of paperwork we need right now.

1. Our permanent residency visas. We need this to finalize the adoption. Doug went yesterday to acquire another extention stamp on our paperwork and the lady was surprised that we hadn't received an apointment date to finalized our visas. Doug spoke to a manager there and he told us to write a letter explaining why we need the process sped up.
2. Our US marriage certificate and Doug's and Heather's birth certificates. We need these in order to get temporary custody of the children even if we don't have our permanent residency yet. These certificates have been to 3 different offices in the US including various Chilean consulates for legalization. This is a process that we and my in-laws started over a month ago. Once we receive the legalized certificates from the various Chilean Consulates in the US we can then take them to the department of interior here in Chile to have them translated. This I'm told can take a couple of weeks. Once they are translated then we register them with our "town" government. Right now our marriage certificate and Doug's and Heather's birth certificates are winging their ways to their perspective Chilean consulates. Please pray that these are processed FAST and then can be sent via FEDEX to us here in Chile so we can start the translation process.

A little side note - even the non-Christian social worker is seeing answers to our prayers as she mentioned that these kids' path of readiness to be adopted has mirrored our path of preparation. Therefore, as she put it, we've been moving hand in hand in this process. Now God needs to show us if we are supposed to take them by the hand and lead them through life.

God knows the answers to all of these prayers and we are continuing to pray that GOD would give us the children HE has for us and that these 2 children that we know about would find and be granted their forever family soon, even if it isn't us. Please pray with us!!