Goodbye Mr Wonderful, Hello Oksana!

Hello all, Sunday I talked with Oksana & Vlad again. I could tell as soon as she answered that something had changed for the better. Oksana was very upbeat and happy. When asked about her friends she said she only has the two Elena and Roma who are friends in her orphanage. Roman who was Mr Wonderful her boyfriend, and the real reason why she decided against the adoption, was no longer her friend. Thank You God and for all of you that have been praying for her this is the answer we had been hoping for. Oksana went on to say that she has been practicing her English again because she says her people do not speak it and she is forgetting. Vlad does not remember but a few phrases, Hi Mom, I love you, Me too, and Dad and you Ukraine soon. Also his English numbers, he understood when I was telling him we should be with him in 12 days. Other than that Oksana had him on speaker and would tell him how to respond to me. I am over my fears for the most part and ready to get started on the travel part of this journey. Felix said it well when he told us fear is the opposite of faith, we are doing are best to keep focused on faith. God knows all of our needs and will be faithful to give us all that He knows we can handle. We would really love to have our 10 day wait waived, has anyone out there ever got this to be done? I know we all ask, but do they ever say yes? It would be great then Matt could avoid the second trip and we could all go home together.