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March 31st update/ Yesue i nee!
Posted by Elizabethquiver
at 12:26 PM on April 16, 2008
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Hello everyone! (The subject line is Jesus loves you in Chinese phonetically spelled)
Sorry that it has been so long since I've updated. Things are going about the same around here, babies come and babies go and God is good! (Though we're having many more babies come than go recently!)
We've had a few more adoptions completed, one of them being a five year old boy named, Lucas Ty. His family left the country with him last Wednesday. They've already sent us a picture of him with his new brothers. They said he's got all their names (including his sisters) down pat. It will be a long process of adjusting for him, just like any new member of the family, but it is very worth it. Watching Ty's adoption and the process of him reacting to the change and newness of his parents brought back lots of memories of my siblings' adoption. He was scared of the change and cried the first day when his parents arrived, but slowly he accepted it and started to enjoy them.
Baby Alexis is also now home with her parents and big brother. Her big brother was adopted from here a few years ago. He's three and is already a wonderful brother, he loved giving her kisses and once told his mom, "Don't hold that baby, Mommy, hold Alexis!" when she was helping out with all the other babies during their stay here to pick up Alexis. He was a cutie and fun to watch as he got to know his baby sister. It was wonderful to see one of the former babies from here "grown up" and thriving in his loving family!
I love to be able to be a part of both ends of the adoption process. I know what the wait and paper work and more paper work is like, and now I'm learning the process of getting the children home from the other side (including much more paper work) and taking care of the children meanwhile. I'm learning how to truly love all of the babies and children but be selfless enough to not cling to them or attach myself to them like they are my own. It's a very special kind of love, one I'm learning a lot from.
In the confusion of the Skiles being gone to pick up some more babies and us forgetting to take leap year into consideration I went over my visa limit. Ted Skiles went to turn in my paper to renew my visa only to find out we were a day late. I now have to go out of the county just so I can come back again! It's a funny concept but it is how it works here. As long as I leave the county the thing with my visa is fixed. (I could arrive beyond their border, turn around and come right back if I wanted to) So we're looking at some places close to here that I can take a quick trip to like, Okinawa (an island of Japan), the Philippines, or Hong Kong. We're still unsure where I'll end up, the Skiles are busy checking in with missionary friends in different places to see who could host me for a bit. I'm sure God has His plan already rolling, we just haven't quite figured it out yet. Please pray that we will! I'm not that worried about it actually. God is trying to teach me how to just cling to Him and roll with what comes. Be involved but not be in control, having actions more than reactions, standing by Christ even when others are sitting. Just basic but essential things that should be present if I'm truly walking after Him but where often fail.
Something that everyone in the process of adopting from here and us working at the Home would appreciate everyone praying about is our new judge. We have a new lady judge who's taking on the adoption cases and is moving MUCH slower than our last judge. We'd appreciate prayers that this judge would be motivated to do her part to bring these families and children together. We have several adoptive parents waiting anxiously for their first papers to come through so they can travel to Taiwan to pick up their child. They receive the second paper after they arrive, Lord wiling, and go to court soon after that. But nothing more can move forward on several adoptions until we receive this first paper from this judge. We moved by faith thinking that some of these big babies would be going home soon to make room for the many new cases that we've accepted. So now we have many newborns we've already committed to that are here and still the bigger babies we hoped to be home soon. So at the moment we have MANY babies, but we'll keep trusting God and take care of them with joyful hearts!
Thank you all for your prayers and love! Pictures will be included below.
Blessings in HIM,
~Elizabeth
