LOA!!!!!!!!!

After waiting only 19 days we received our Letter of Approval from China on Monday, September 24th!!  This makes everything official and I can finally share her picture!  The average wait time for this is usually 50-60 days so we could not believe it!  God is so good and we feel so blessed.  It happened so quickly that we were not ready for the next step and had to quickly get our I800 prepared.  We were able to send that on Tuesday afternoon, so now we wait again.  Unfortunately, that is the hardest part of  this whole process.  Once you receive one thing, you begin the wait for the next step.  It is totally out of our hands and we continue to trust the Lord and His timing!  While we wait we are busy filling out paperwork to apply for adoption grants.  These are not hard, but require a lot of time preparing paperwork.  We know that God has called us to adopt and we are trusting that He will provide what we need when we need it.  We are praying that we will be able to travel early December and be home for Christmas, but we won't know for sure about our travel dates until at least November.  Please continue to pray that the next few steps go quickly.  We are ready to meet our little girl and bring her home.  She has been prayed for by so many for a long time.  It is so exciting to watch this happen.  God has truly blessed our family!