We are so excited to share that today we heard when our court date will be! Our court appointment is scheduled for Monday afternoon! Not only is that only 3 days away (thankfully we are still in country and didn't decide to go home and wait to hear when court would be!), but it also happens to be our wedding anniversary. To be completely honest we had actually been praying that court would happen on that day, just because it would be a little extra special. As each day this week went by and we didn't hear anything we began to realize that having court on our anniversary just probably wasn't meant to be. Really we were just not looking forward to having another long weekend of not knowing when we would get to move forward. But God's faithfulness came through once again in the eleventh hour when we found out late on this Friday afternoon that we would be going to court on Monday. We also received the news earlier in the week that we were completely approved by the SDA to adopt our specific child, which was another huge answer to prayer since that is the step that has caused some extra hurdles for a lot of families recently. Now all we need is a favorable decision from the judge on Monday and this child will legally be ours! After court there is a ten day waiting period before our custody officially begins though. We do plan to ask the judge to consider waiving this waiting period. It is very rare that a judge will, but we are praying they might just decide to allow it this time. If not, we will at least know we only have 10 more days to wait before we are officially together as a family!
Please pray with us that court will go well on Monday and that the judge may even decide to waive the waiting period.
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