Viaţă în România --------- Life in Romania

some happy, sad, funny, frustrating, incredible, discouraging, wow, joyful and "what the heck is going on?" moments from the lives of kelsey (mama) and caleb (son) serving Jesus in romania. TOATE SUNT POSSIBLE CU ISUS! (all things are possible with Jesus!)

Monday, October 1, 2007

Problems, problems....

That seems to be my life here. Small problem after small problem after small problem. For instance, my adoption process with Caleb - everyone else's is moving along just fine and then Romania says they won't let me do the same as them because it's illegal. What? It is legal, just for me apparently it's not. Okay, that's just 1 example to introduce the car issues that are happening right now. Every car I tried to buy since last June fell through. We are talking multiple cars almost every week. It was getting pretty frustrating but then God provided a car. Yay!
Next step was to transfer the money. That took a couple of weeks of small problems again in order to figure out how to do that transfer correctly. The transfer went through but by the time it did the US dollar had fallen so low since when I had tried to originally do the transfer that my car was $240 more expensive. Arrghghgh! But, God provided someone to pay that $240 - really unexpected and really awesome. Then came buying the airplane tickets to go and pick the car up in Germany. Right in the middle of the ticket transaction online the airline decided to change the ticket price. They made me start over from the beginning and the tickets were like $40 more expensive! So, I had to re-work schedules etc.. and instead bought tickets for this Wednesday. Small problems but I was thankful because these tickets were even cheaper than the original price of Monday's. God even provided someone to go out with me and help drive the car back so I wouldn't have to do that long drive alone. Weeks ago before buying this car I made sure that I would be able to temporarily register the car in Germany. This would allow me to then permanently register the car here in Romania. Well today I found out that for some reason the offices are saying in Germany that they will not allow me to do this. Aarghghg!
There has to be a way around this because Romanians go all the time and bring back German cars. And, I was told that this would be possible from our car registration expert guys here. In fact the one guy even called the head of the Romanian version of the DMV to double check that what I wanted to do would be possible. They said yes. Germany is saying No. Aaghghgh Small problems!
What it comes down to is this - I have my airline tickets bought, I have babysittters worked out for Caleb, I have the time off from work here to do this from my boss and now I can't go and get the car? Pleae pray that Jesus will make a way here! I believe that He can overcome these small problems that seem to mark my life here. I say "seem" because that is what Satan would want me to believe more than the power of Jesus. I believe that this car can be given to me on Thursday morning with the proper registration to drive it across the borders of Germany, Austria, Hungary and Romania. I believe that there are those involved in this process who need to see that God is alive and that God is involved in the minutes of everyday. I believe that through this situation He will show those people that and that they will know that God is GOD!
Please fight through and for this situation in prayer for this to happen. Maybe it doesn't seem like much to you- oh it's just a car. But I tell you that there is much more to this than just a car