Utter frustration

I feel the need to update our blog, although I honestly have no encouraging words to post. This past week has been so difficult for our entire family. We seem to be riding this continuous roller coaster of emotion and frankly, we're ready for the ride to end. We fully expected Allan to get on that plane on Wednesday, and at the last minute another change prevented that. A drama group that Allan has performed with before in Kampala will be traveling to Houston and we were told on Wednesday that Allan had been asked to travel with them to the states so he would not have to travel alone; their flight was scheduled to leave on Saturday. This decision was made without our knowledge and we were incredibly upset at having already paid 6 change flight fees of $50 a pop. The concept of him being with other children so he would not fly alone was totally fine and we all honestly felt better at that but it was just one more delay in the timing of his arrival. Having reconciled ourselves to that, we were again preparing for him to leave tomorrow but this morning received a phone call that a child's visa paper work had not been properly completed and now the group would not be leaving until next Wednesday. We are so emotionally drained, financially too. We continue to trust that God will see us through to the next page but it's a hard process mentally.

We were both so frustrated this morning and as the boys were walking out the door to head to school, both Ben and Max said, "please can't we just reschedule one more time?" They want Allan to be here so badly! As do we and we just hope and pray that his arrival will be soon.

Please continue to pray for our family. Pray that we remain faithful to God's calling and his desires for our family. We want to be in accordance with his will.