But along with that wonderful news is some not so wonderful news:
The reason we needed the passport was to move onto the next step of the process, which is getting his medical appointment done at the International Organization for Migration (IOM), and so as soon as we got our passport this afternoon, we rushed over to the IOM office to try to get an appointment scheduled for Monday, (or even possibly squeeze in at the end of the day today)! The bad news is that we had been told and believed we had been given all of Sam's file, so when we got there they asked for the blue form from the U.S. Embassy (check), the passport (check), two additional passport sized photos (not check, but not a deal breaker), a form that we filled out with address information (check), medical history (check) and his birth certificate (not check, deal breaker............).
I cannot even begin to tell you the amount of disappointment I felt in that moment. Here we thought we were waiting on our passport... turns out that we were really waiting on both the passport and birth certificate and didn't know it; not only was it not in his 'complete' file, but that it is still on the desk of the person who needs to sign it.
Guys, I was truly sick and devastated.
But God is still good and sovereign. He got us our passport in just one week, which is so fast for Uganda time!
And now we know we need to pray over that official who has Sam's birth certificate to sign it early Monday morning so that we can get in to IOM as early as possible on Monday, and try to get in later that day! It is possible, because we already gave them everything else they need, (so we're in the system), though it's still not super likely. Nonetheless, let's all pray for just that - the signature on the birth certificate first thing on Monday and for IOM to get us in for his medical check on Monday too!
Thank you all for your prayers for the passport, and thanks for joining us in praying over this one last thing before the medical check can be done!
Missing so many of you amazing people! Love you all!
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