Whew! What a long week. It seems it won't end. We are missing everyone from home. We can't wait for An Zhen to meet our family & friends.We went to the zoo today. It was so much fun. An Zhen greeted everyone as they passed by & started every conversation in Chinese. It helped us to see just how well she knows the lanquage. She is very smart. Have we mentioned that yet? We will have to learn more Mandarin & have already learned some to communicate with her.
We want anyone reading our blog, that may be feeling called to adopt a child internationally, to please feel free to contact us with any help you might need. It would be our pleasure to assist in any way that we can. We have kept all of our information from the 2 1/2 year journey. It has been worth the wait. We are so blessed! We started this journey, because we wanted to help a little one find a home & we also wanted a little girl. God has called us all to reach out to the fatherless. It may not be thru adoption, but it just might. We have been so blessed already waking up to this smile every morning. She is truly a gift from God. We thank him with all our hearts for allowing us to receive this precious gift.
Tomorrow we fly to Guangzhou and will have more paperwork & interviews next week. Guangzhou is close to Hong Kong. We should have the weekend off and start everything on Monday morning. It seems like we've been in China a month. i have honestly lost track of the days.
Rozanne began this blog posting and i started working on it somewhere in the 3rd or 4th paragraph. She had to get An Zhen to sleep. By the way, Rozanne is an awesome mom. You probably have already suspected that much, but i thought i would remind you.Please continue to pray for us coming home. An Zhen is very active. It's hard for her to stay in one place very long.....the flight home will be 14 hours, not to mention that we have a 2 hour flight before and a 2 hour flight after. So pleeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaase don't stop praying just yet. We hope you continue to share this journey even after we arrive home.
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I can assure you that NO ONE has stopped praying. And we will continue to pray until those tires hit the Memphis runway. This blog has become the highlite of SO many peoples day. It's a continual reminder to pray for y'all and little An Zhen. I know that everytime we look at her sweet face, we are moved to pray for her. And I'm gonna pray that y'all accidently get on one of those supersonic jets that cuts the flight time in half...:). Ok, so maybe that won't happen, but we will be praying without ceasing for all your flights in China and coming home. We love y'all and cannot wait for y'all to be home. Have I told you that? And I had no doubt that Rozanne would be a fabulous Mom. I hope I take after her!! Love y'all.
ReplyDeleteWe are sooo ready to meet her. I have been showing Cora pictures and trying to get her to say An Zhen but she just points and says "baby". An Zhen looks as if she has always been with you guys. Who couldn't fall in love with you and Clifton. We love you all and are so thankful God has brought you and this child into our lives. Dena and Family
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