The Power of Prayer!!!!!!!

For almost 3 months now we have had amazing support and countless prayers from people that this situation with Mark's birth certificate would get resolved quickly.  With no end in site we sent our Dossier to China on 10/28/11 without the birth certificate and then turned our prayers to them just accepting our Dossier without that required form.  I can't tell you how discouraging this has been for us to not know if all these months of home study visits, background checks and paperwork would even pay off or if we would have to start with a different program from scratch.  Well after a very discouraging day in which we found out it would be close to the beginning of the year before we would hear if China would accept our Dossier without Marks birth certificate I proceeded to stop for ice cream on the way home to wallow in my own self pity for a little bit.  Upon returning home I pulled up my email and saw this email from a sender I didn't recognize, but the heading said FS 240 (that is the official name of Mark's birth certificate) so I clicked and...................................................................................................................................................................It was an email from our courier in DC stating that he had FINALLY gotten Mark's birth certificate to go thru the Embassy and he is sending it to our agency today.    Oh My Gosh we are sooooo excited!!!!!  I will call the agency tomorrow to find out exactly how we proceed from here, but the is AWESOME NEWS!!!!  I am seriously considering printing off that email to go in Baby Hendrick's life book.  Thank you to everyone who has supported us thru these last few months.  We had been praying for a sign to let us know what path we were to take from here and I think this email spoke loud and clear what we are supposed to be doing.  If in doubt, then this is a sure example of  how the power of prayer really works.  Thank you all so much.

Mark and Ashley