Sunday, April 4 – No baby house visits today (however it is recognized as Day #10 – halleluia!)
Happy Easter, everyone. A Muslim country is probably not the best place to be on Easter, but then again, how wonderful to know that because Jesus rose from the dead on Easter, we can abide with Him and Him with us, in any nation! We declined Helen’s offer to take us to church after she brought it up again late last night as we were leaving her home. Don’t think she was planning on going and we are exhausted. It is a beautiful sunny day. Most of the snow/ ice is gone. Girls have sunglasses fashionably placed on top of their heads and some of the black coats are being replaced by lighter weight bright colored jackets. I’m still big time out of style with my very heavy, good for under zero, coat. I did break away from the giant snow boots I have donned each morning for the past 3 weeks (couldn’t do the stiletto heel thing)and ventured out in my white running shoes and black workout pants. I think I am the only female in this city wearing tennis shoes and I couldn’t be happier. My feet feel great and my shoes don’t get stuck in small places like they do in the boots.
We have written/typed our petition (speech) to present when we go to court (another sign of encouragement that we are actually making plans for court) and will send this to Zhanat for translation. We bought a pair of sandals for Kirill while we were out for lunch today. New shoes were being distributed to the children and Kirill told them that his mama and papa were getting him some so we don’t want to disappoint the boy. We are required to purchase an outfit for him to leave the baby house and to travel to US in, so hopefully these will be shoes and clothes that we will see on him on US soil.
Biggest prayer request at this point is to obtain a written statement from Kirill’s mother relinquishing her rights to him. Please pray.