Trusting in the Divine Contractor

We successfully picked up our official referral letter for the girls on Thursday. This means that we are offically allowed to go to the orphanage to visit the children. Therefore, we left Kiev at 4PM and headed to Zhytomyr. (The orphanage is just outside the town of Zhytomyr which is just over 2 hours away) As per our previous blog, we are still waiting on the approval letter for Nikita, as the SDA would not discuss our case in the same appointment with the girls. (We will go back to Kiev for this next week.)

As we jumped in a car with our new driver headed for Zhytomyr, we realized how much trust we must have through this entire process. We literally have lived in a stranger's apartment, allowed a stranger who practices to be a NASCAR driver at night take us on a two hour venture through the woods without regard to any of his warning indicators (low fuel, temperature, & oil) and deliver us to yet another stranger's apartment. WE CLEARLY SAW ALL THE ILLUMINATED LIGHTS THE ENTIRE TRIP AS HE ZOOMED PAST THE ONLY TWO GAS STATIONS BETWEEN THE TWO CITIES!

Truth be told, we are unsure we could have followed through with this last adventure without our friends Becca and Craig having just done the same a few weeks prior. THANK GOD  FOR THEIR PIONEERING SPIRIT!

That's not all...

After arriving safely in Zhytomyr and getting keys to our latest apartment, we then realized our phone which contains ALL contact information for everyone in Ukraine we need to know and need to call, was dead. No problem...we plugged in the phone only to receive a message that said enter PIN and PUK #. WHAT? We tried a few common numerical American series of numbers and then received a message we have exceeded our attempts and our phone was blocked! We immidiately headed to the streets to find an internet cafe in hopes someone would pick up our MAYDAY late at night.

Once again, Becca to the rescue. Due to the time difference and the fact she is now back in America, she picked up our urgent cry via email and was able to reach out to Natalia by phone to obtain the info. Now we are set.

Bottom line: He has His final set of plans and we are working off of our rough draft!