Great News!

I was so excited yesterday when the UPS truck pulled up. I ran outside and all but tackled the poor delivery man. I told him thank you like 1,000 times and told him that he had made my day. Then I walked inside and opened the packet. There it was, sitting on top of all of our documents- a rejection letter. They had rejected 3 of our documents :( The easiest way to explain it is that they just needed some more documentation. I was off for spring break and Brian had a wonderfully supportive sergeant on duty who told him to take the day off and drive up to Raleigh. So, that is what we did today. We drove up to Raliegh (left the house at 5:30 am) and had them redo our 3 rejected papers. Then we went straight to the Fedex store and sent them on their way. They were picked up today and should arrive at the unmentionable country next Thursday. Our stateside helper, Brigitte, who has been amazing told me that we should be fine with getting in before the SDA dismantles as long as we are submitted before the June 12th date. So now we wait. There is nothing left to do. It is out of our hands. I can still, however obsessively track my papers every half hour from now until Thursday though ;) Most likely, we are looking at about 6 weeks before we travel! That is not long at all and it could be even earlier. We will just have to see. Thanks for all of your donations and prayers!