The Flores Journey

I want to thank every one of you for praying for us as we have faced some opposition during this last hurdle.  We have received lots of feedback that you are all praying and wondering how things are going with locating our documents.

The package is still lost in the USPS but we have some better news.

We have been talking with the SA consulate in Chicago and because they were partly responsible for losing our documents they have been very helpful in trying to locate them as well as pulling some strings to go ahead and resubmit an application.  They told us that we will be able to submit whatever copies that we might have of the originals we had lost.  The head of the consulate is also on the phone daily trying to locate everything else.  We are very grateful that they are putting the pressure on the USPS because I think it has a much greater affect coming from officials vs little ol' me.  She even told me that she would push for the USPS reimbursing us for any costs that would be incurred because of their neglect... (e.g. airfare changes)

On another note.  I thought I had sent my passports in that package to the Consulate in Chicago and they too were lost in the mail.  I was so convinced that I never looked for them here at the house.  I had checked off on my list of to do's that I had put them in the package with everything else.  I was looking for copies of birth certificates, and anything else I might have, to send to the consulate and found all three of the passports in with the papers.... Because we do have them, the Consulate is able to pull some strings and use copies of Birth certificates for this application. (so our mistake became a blessing in disguise!!)

We sent the second application to them last night and it arrived this morning May 21.  The head of the consulate said to put her name on it so she could see to it herself.  I will be contacting her this morning to find out what else we need to do.  I will keep you all posted. 

Thank you very much for your prayers.  Our plans remain to go on the 30 of this month.  I can't tell you how good it feels and how much confidence we have knowing that all of you stand so solidly behind us. We have been encouraged by so many of you shooting us emails or posts on Facebook and Twitter letting us know that we are in your prayers. That means the world to us... and we know your prayers are helping!

James 5:16  The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain; and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months.  And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.


Bryan, Claire, Peyton, and baby #2

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