We made it!

Everything went like clockwork--TB test got read at 9 AM.  To the next hospital...and they were quick quick.  Arrived US embassy about 11:15.  Our local agent--the masterful and resourceful Mr. Wondo (wan-doo), he of the taking the money for the immigration applications while the attendant went and copied something we needed--did his work, and we had our "interview" about 12:30.

It wasn't much of an interview...and they were very accommodating, promising to have the visa ready at 2:00, at which time Mr. Wondo would pick it up and meet us back at the office at 4 to give us all the paperwork.

Like almost everything else, we had to endure one unexpected bump.  We arrived at the adoption agency office at 3:50, and Mr. Wondo wasn't there yet.  His phone was in an "unavailable" mode, so Yosef surmised that he must still be at the embassy--where you must turn off and check your phone.

So Yosef took us back to the hotel, then returned to the office to wait for Mr. Wondo to return.  Yosef collected the documents, then brought them to our hotel!

So, it is now 6:15, the documents are in hand, and Sandy is organizing our packing.  We are set to depart tomorrow afternoon!

If all goes as expected (and I'm more confident about that with what remains than I had been with the earlier stuff--because I'm more familiar with tomorrow's "stuff" than the other), we should be at the 4 PM Christmas Eve service at Faith!

Thanks for your interest, support, encouragement, prayer, etc.


And thanks for reading.

With love and gratitude,
Andrew (for all the Miltons)