(To the right: Hotel construction where the crew moved all of the concrete slabs by hand as well as installed all of the bricks in the sidewalk in a matter of days!)
Hello Everyone!
Today, we had a great day with the girls. We picked them up at 10am and then went to the outdoor market. We bought sweaters, jeans, and shoes. We communicated using our calculators, fingers and Luda! After dropping the things off at the hotel room, we walked to our favorite pizza place here in Berdyansk. We are obviously recognized there, because Luda was given a form to fill out and then an envelope. It contained a discount (skitka) card!
After lunch, we went back to the hotel for a while before going to our friends’, Misha and Luda, home. They had prepared a wonderful meal for us. Misha and Luda had invited Julia Savizkaya, a prior Berdyansk orphan, to dinner to be our translator. Julia is now 16 and is no longer allowed to be at the orphanage because of her age. However, she still has a sister at the orphanage and 2 brothers at another orphanage nearby. The good news is that she and all of her siblings are in the process of being adopted by a family from the states. Misha and Luda’s kids and our girls had a lot of fun together. As we left, our girls asked if they could return tomorrow.
(To the right: Luda & Julia and all of the kids playing)
Tomorrow, when we see the girls it will be to take them to the court for our appointment, praise God! We are very anxious for our appointment tomorrow. We ask for prayers and God’s favor for a favorable court judgment. We are going to ask Valery to clarify the judge’s statement to Larissa that we can start some documentation for birth certificates and passports after court tomorrow. This would be wonderful since our ten day wait period ends getting our documentation from the court Friday morning, and we have a lot of traveling around to do to wrap things up in this region before heading back to Kyiv. The weekend would keep us here longer.
We thank God for the wonderful new friends we have here and the favorable weather so far.
God Bless,
Dan and Julie
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