Big praise!

I'm not feeling nauseated today! It's been a while.

Apartment adventures

Keep praying that our landlord would find someone to keep his daughter tonight. The director of our building has said that she was willing to take her for a night, but she's not home right now. He has someone for tomorrow, but if he can't find the director (or someone else) for tonight, she'll have to come here. I'd really rather not send Seryozha away now, even just for one night. (Although, we can probably figure something out there, too. He's been with us, because he just got paid, and his mother wants his money for a drinking binge. It seems like if he left his money here, then he could sleep there. It just wouldn't be great. Yes, he has a mother, but there are reasons that he grew up in an orphanage. )

And. . . we'll probably be moving before too long. There's someone who had wanted to rent to us on the first floor here, in our same building, same entrance. We had decided against it, because the apartment is a little smaller, the windows only face the back, and it just didn't seem like much of an improvement. Honestly, please pray for me to adjust back to being excited about that apartment. It will be wonderful to be away from the stairs and the leaky roof and the fifth-floor heat! And our prayers have been for our landlord to work out his family problems; this will be a direct answer to those prayers.

No room at the inn

Our landlord just called to ask us to take his daughter in. He's had her in an orphanage and needs to find another place for her now. We already have a boy who graduated from "our" orphanage who spends nights here off and on. ("On" right now.) So, we don't have room for the landlord's daughter. Please pray that we can find a good place for her to stay and that he'll accept the fact that we can't take her. He's coming over tomorrow to try to convince us, I think. But, like Will said, "What can we do? Move Seryozha to the balcony?" There's just not enough room!

Still coughing

I'm still coughing from the colds we got at Easter. Please pray that I'll get over this soon, especially because when I start coughing, I throw up. Please pray that the coughing will go away and the nausea with it!

Kind of back to square one

We're going to need to get religious visas for our children, too. (Up until now we've just gotten them exit/entry short-term visas when we've left the country.) The problem is that we've already turned in our applications for invitations, and it looks like we can't just send theirs along behind ours. We probably have to wait until we get everything back for us, and then apply for them. Please pray for the process to be sped up or for a way to send in their papers alone.

One praise

The letter we needed came in.

Film

Our church is working with several other churches to show the Jesus film in a movie theater on Friday and Saturday. Please pray for all the people handing out invitations, putting up posters and making preparations now. Pray for people to come and to respond to the message.

Healthy!

Thank you, Lord, for quick viruses! Raia threw up one last time before bed last night, but she's been fine since then. We're slowly working on getting her rehydrated and back up to speed with eating. I had a very short bout of the same sickness, but nothing like her. Will and Jaan seem to be fine.

Raia's sick

Our poor baby has been throwing up all day. Please pray that she'll get to where she can keep water and food down as soon as possible. Pray that no one else will get sick!