Embassy Interview

What a morning! We had to wake up JP to get to the embassy for our 8:00 appointment. We went to the “restaurant” for breakfast to feed JP and these 2 very nice gentlemen asked to join us so that we could eat while they fed JP! They are from a church in Tennessee here doing work in some orphanages. As we quickly ate they inquired of our story and we shared it with them. They offered to keep us in prayer as we told them about the embassy situation. While we were packing up a few more people from their group came in and before I knew it we were in a circle of prayer on our behalf. How cool is that. God keeps putting people in our lives to encourage and uplift us. We thanked them and got in the taxi to head to the embassy. About ¾ of the way there we ran out of gas! The driver called his partner to come get us. Thankfully we still made it to the embassy on time. We were sitting and waiting a few minutes before 8:00 and we sat there until around 10:00 when they finally called our name. The other couple adopting from Rwanda told us that they have had a few senators from back home sending emails to put pressure on the embassy to get the visas processed ASAP. The visa interviewer said that he was 98% sure that the visas would be ready to pick up at 3:00 on Tuesday!!!!!!! The problem is we do not have flexible tickets and he was certainly not guaranteeing that the visa would be ready when expected so to be safe he recommended that we try to get flights for Thursday. (The only other day the embassy is open next week). He did sound pretty confident that if it wasn’t ready Tuesday, it WOULD be ready Thursday. We are looking into what the cost would be to come home early, but Praise God …the worst case scenario is that we come back on schedule. The hard part is over now we just wait and pray that everything goes smoothly and the visa is processed without any problems. JP is quite the celebrity around here. There is a gentleman who works here in the restaurant and everytime we come in he takes JP and walks him around and introduces him to all the people in the restaurant. It is so funny and quite nice to be able to eat without him grabbing at everything on our plates.

By the way… I just heard that my friend Peter in Rwanda had a baby girl!