The Quest for Our Princess

We had another wonderful visit at the orphanage yesterday. We pray that when we get home Eryna continues to enjoy us as much as she does now! J Our favorite caregiver was there yesterday so we were able to stay longer than usual. We did crafts with her yesterday. Since we bought scissors and glue for the class, Eryna has been enjoying cutting pictures from her coloring book and using the glue to put them back together. I don’t think she has ever been able to use these items before. I love that she enjoyed doing a craft! We will be doing many more when we get home. It was very hard to leave. It keeps getting harder and harder to leave her. So thankful that in two days we will never have to leave her again.

After the orphanage, we went to Friday night church service. This is our favorite service because it is mainly worship songs and we can understand some of them. We also enjoy hearing Pastor Peter speak because he has so much enthusiasm. We just wish we could understand him! This morning at breakfast, we asked him what he spoke about and he was able to tell us a little about it. His daughter is also here from college and she is studying English so she was able to translate most of the conversation. Their home is very lovely and Tamara is a wonderful cook. We stayed up late last night talking to their daughter. We kept asking her if she wanted to go to bed and she would say no because we were helping her “study” by just talking to her!! We had her read something in English and she did so well. She articulated the words better than we would. This morning Pastor Peter’s father joined us for breakfast. He is a pastor as well and loves to sing. During breakfast, he serenaded us in songs and one was “How Great Thou Art”. He sang it beautifully. The only downfall staying here is that we have no internet. We have been so spoiled being at the church and having internet to call our family back home. Last night I had a hard time going to sleep because I missed talking to the boys. We have been able to talk to them every day since being here and yesterday was the first day not talking to them. We came back here to the church today after being at the orphanage so that we could post this and call the boys.

The girls in Eryna’s class have been distant from us lately and have seemed sad. We noticed it the past two times but thought maybe they are sick or something. Yesterday, all the other girls had new school uniforms on except for Eryna. I am sure this caused for them to ask questions and maybe they were told Eryna is leaving and we are taking her from them. I wish I could take all the girls in her class. They are all so precious. I wish I could ask what their status is with adoption so I could get some of you out there to adopt them! Start praying because I am already praying for God to place the desire on some of your hearts! The one girl that is normally close with us was crying today when we were leaving so seeing that hurt me pretty bad. We asked the caregiver today (our favorite one) if she was going to be working on Monday or Tuesday so we could say goodbye and she won't be back till Wednesday. She asked when we were taking Eryna to America and we said on Tuesday (too much to try to translate that we have to go somewhere else first) and one if the little girls in her class started to clap and said.."Yay...Era, America!" It was cute but I am sure a sad moment for them. We are going to miss all of the girls.