Walking with You!

NEEDING YOUR PRAYERS!
Wow! July is going to be full of challenges! We are currently sharing our new home with many people!!! During the day there are lots of visitors, 4 of us, 5 Kazak family members, and 5 workers. We have all our stuff in 2 small rooms where the kids are sharing a pull out sofa and we are sleeping on a comfy mat on the floor. The other family is living/sleeping in the kitchen while the workers are mudding and painting the living room! Please pray for us as we enjoy very close and cozy living arrangements with a wonderful Kazak family and great language learning opportunities!
1.THE LORD'S PRESENCE. More Lord! We pray He would fill us to overflowing on all those around us during lots of transitions!
2.MOVING to our new home. The family we bought our new home from is moving to Kazakstan but cannot leave until they receive their daughter's passport. They will remain in the home with us for a few days until they move in with some relatives at the end of the week. Please pray for continued friendships with this gracious family.
3.FIXING up our house. Please pray as a small crew of 5 Kazakh guys break off existing mud and apply 4 layers of mud and paint the interior of our house and put mud and red bricks on the outside and install a new roof. Pray for opportunities to build relationships.
4.PEACE in RELATIONSHIPS! Moving with deadlines is bringing up many cultural differences. Pray we can be full of peace and show love in the midst of misunderstanding and communication difficulties! Pray for understanding and supernatural language abilities.
5.KIDS. Please pray for our kids adjustment to a new home and new friends.
6.TRAVEL to Ulaanbaatar. We will be traveling to the capital at the end of the month to connect with the rest of our team and to change Eli's passport. Please pray we will be able to find a place to stay, ease with the Embassy and quickly receive his passport back, great time with our team, and funds for a short family vacation.
7.ADOPTION. We praise Him for the patience He gives as you pray! There are still investigations being done to finish the paperwork in Ethiopia. Please pray that the courts will accept the gathered information and that all paperwork would be completed. Continue to pray for patience. We really want to go to Africa this fall so that we can bring her home before Christmas and before her 7th birthday in January.

We praise Him for blessing us with a new home, bonding with a Kazak family, meeting many new neighbors, and a restful prayer retreat in Bayan Olgi last month that helped fuel us for this upcoming month! We can't stress enough how much we appreciate your prayers! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!! We can definitely sense your prayers lifting us up!

Much love,
Larry, Krista, Averi, Eli, and Acacia (in Africa)