She's well!

Thank you, Lord! We actually took Raia to church (in Charlotte, no less) yesterday. She was pitiful all day long. Her stomach was calm, but the fever was hanging on. The fever broke during the night, and she seems like her usual self today. She's still weak, but happy. We're supposed to keep her on a banana and toast diet for a little while longer, too.

Raia update

Her stomach finally settled late last night. We haven't tried any food yet this morning, but she's keeping down a little Gatorade. Just pray that it will stay down! I just heard that two other little boys are sick now, too. Please pray for Joseph and Daniel.

Raia. Sigh.

Last night she fell out of the living room window (which is high!). Today she's sick.

Edited to add: She probably has rotavirus, which can be pretty serious. Please pray that she'll be able to keep some liquids down!



(In the photo she's "showing off" her injuries from last night. Actually, she's covering some of them up.)

Asya's Social Security number

Please pray that we'll be able to get it for taxes! They seem to go very slowly overseas with Social Security numbers, and we applied for Asya's in Moscow. Pray that it would come through quickly and not be lost. Pray that I would be able to get in touch with someone who knows about it, and that they would be able to tell me what's going on. (I seem to remember something about you have to ask in person, not by phone or email. . . .)

Moving forward

We have a region of Ukraine chosen. Now we're working on visas. Please pray that they'll come through QUICKLY. Pavel, our friend and pastor from Kovrov, is visiting his relatives in Ukraine now, and he's working on getting invitations for us. Please pray that will go as quickly as possible!

Cross posting

This is something I had posted on our blog:
Prayers are being answered. Someone that we have really been wanting to get in touch with has gotten an internet connection. Pasha (in Kovrov) has been able to help a good bit, too; he and Will have been talking often via Skype, trying to figure out how to get visas for us.

Please keep praying! We still have a long way to go before we have definite plans settled.

Answers

Please pray for answers to the emails we've sent out. We've been writing and calling to try and decide where in Ukraine we'll be going, and now we're just waiting for answers. I would like to apply for our visas as soon as possible, but even that has to wait until we have some answers.

Pray for wisdom as we plan!

Will's cold and travel

Will and his parents are flying to Texas tomorrow. Will's cold hasn't been bad, but please do pray for him (and them) as they travel.

Also, I mentioned that our trip from Russia went well. I forgot to say that the drive from Florida to North Carolina also went smoothly. I wrote about that. . . .