SDA appt

This morning we had our SDA appt at 10:00. We walked over with our facilitator. Side note-Got to quickly meet the Underwood's facilitator and David and I both looked at each other and said "The Jedi." We waited outside the hallway for just a little bit. Then we were sent upstairs. All 4 of us sat down and the lady at the SDA (very nice with pretty smile) asked us some questions about ourselves and our family. Asked some questions about our boys and then gave us some information on the children, A & N. Everything went very smoothly and we were out of there within 15 minutes or so. It was a very easy interview process and all went well. Thank God! We will head to Poltava tomorrow morning around 11:00!!!

Afterwards, we met a friend of Zhenia's who was going to take us sight seeing. David wanted to go back to the flat to rest. He did great through the appt, but started feeling like he needed rest. We all ate lunch together and parted ways. Lena is the young lady who escorted us around Kiev. For 4 hours we walked and saw the sights: World War II memorial, a new memorial to remember the time of starvation in Ukraine, St. Andrew's church (we were able to go inside and look around and it is really beautiful), and walked through many parks. We rode the metro a couple of times, took a bus, and rode the venicullar (sp??).

A little more info on the bus ride: we get on the bus and find some seats. Then Lena tells me how much the ride is going to cost. I give this to her and she passes the money up to the driver by way of the other passengers. Everyone pays this way and gets their change this way! I have no idea how he knows if everyone pays or if anyone actually gets their change back- interesting! The bus makes several more stops and so many more people get on the bus. I keep thinking "There is no way anyone else is going to fit in here." But they do! No personal space!! Lena calls to the driver to tell him to stop and he does. We are about midway on the bus. Everyone in front of us gets off the bus to let us out and then they all get back on when we are out. The whole thing makes me laugh!

Lena asked us if their metro is different than ours. I just laughed and told her we don't have a metro! Couldn't even imagine it. 280 is bad enough!

Later this evening, we met our friend, Hollie for dinner. She just left Poltava with her 3 new additions to her family. It was nice to chat with her. She gave us some info on where things are in Poltava and other points of view. It was good to see her and see her children again! Pray for them as they are on their last leg of the process. They hope to be out and on a plane headed to AL by the end of the week.

The driver is picking us up at 10:00 in the morning. We have about a 5 hour ride to look forward to. We can't wait to see A & N!! Please continue to pray for God to go ahead of us. This has been my prayer for awhile. A sweet friend gave me a card before I left. I read it last night. Inside it had some sticky notes with scripture on them. The first one I read was Deut 31:8: The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you, He will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid, do not be discouraged. Awesome! God is faithful!