Greetings friends,
I know it has been a while since I have been on here and posted any blogs. A lot has happened since my last post of me raising my funds to go to Ethiopia. Sadly I was not able to go, but as I always say, God has a plan.
Since then I was not able to reach the funds by my deadline a week later USCIS (United States Citizens Immigration Services) had approved our K1 fiance visa here in the United States. This meant that Hanna my beautiful wonderful fiance would be granted an interview for her visa at the U.S Embassy in Ethiopia. She got her packet and then told her that her interview would be on January 12th. A long time from October. Well today is January 16th and the interview has happened. Before I tell you the results of that interview, we had prepared and made sure we had everything she needed for the interview. I called my Congressman's office and had been speaking with John Wood. He had been awesome on giving me advise on what to do and not to do.
He had sent an email to the US consulate in Ethiopia that would be handling our case. On top of this we had been preparing for her interview. I went through and picked out the emails from the past year, my phone bills along with a copy of my calling card with the number I used and so much more. She had a stack of papers to take to the interview with her. When I say a stack of papers I mean a stack of them. The day before I pulled up questions that they would ask her and we spent an hour going over them making sure she had all of the answers for the questions. It was all in God's hands from then. She told me that she wished I was going to go with her cause then the consulate would be nice to her since she told me that they normally were rude with the Ethiopians. So I began to pray that God's kindness would be on the consulate and that God's confidence would be on Hanna. I spent the day praying and fasting for her and the interview.
Well at 3 am Thursday morning I got a call from my beautiful bride to be. She told me they didn't give her the visa. My heart just sunk and I began to question why, then she told me with a very excited voice they did give her the visa. I stopped her then and we just began to pray a prayer of thanksgiving. She told me afterwards that the consulate was very sweet and kind to her. Oh God you are so good. You answered my prayer and showed us favor. She told me how the interview went and she said she went into the interview with all of the paperwork ready to give it to her the consulate. The consulate was going over the application that I had sent in here, the U.S. She asked her one question that followed by another question and it was, "What does your fiance do in his spare time?" with no hesitation she said the answer with confidence, "He coaches!" Her next question was, "What does he coach?" and again with confidence, "He coaches football!" That sparked a conversation how the consulate loves football and then asked her where she got her hair done cause she loved it. Then she said to Hanna my wonderful beautiful wife to be, "Congratulations, you have been granted your visa!" As I write this I am listing Pandora radio and they are playing how awesome is the Lord most high by Chris Tomlin.
God how awesome you are. You have been so good to us. 406 days it took from filing to being granted a visa. God has been so good to us.
Whatever you are waiting on from the Lord hang in there. God is faithful as well as He is merciful.
Thank you for reading. God bless you!
I know it has been a while since I have been on here and posted any blogs. A lot has happened since my last post of me raising my funds to go to Ethiopia. Sadly I was not able to go, but as I always say, God has a plan.
Since then I was not able to reach the funds by my deadline a week later USCIS (United States Citizens Immigration Services) had approved our K1 fiance visa here in the United States. This meant that Hanna my beautiful wonderful fiance would be granted an interview for her visa at the U.S Embassy in Ethiopia. She got her packet and then told her that her interview would be on January 12th. A long time from October. Well today is January 16th and the interview has happened. Before I tell you the results of that interview, we had prepared and made sure we had everything she needed for the interview. I called my Congressman's office and had been speaking with John Wood. He had been awesome on giving me advise on what to do and not to do.
He had sent an email to the US consulate in Ethiopia that would be handling our case. On top of this we had been preparing for her interview. I went through and picked out the emails from the past year, my phone bills along with a copy of my calling card with the number I used and so much more. She had a stack of papers to take to the interview with her. When I say a stack of papers I mean a stack of them. The day before I pulled up questions that they would ask her and we spent an hour going over them making sure she had all of the answers for the questions. It was all in God's hands from then. She told me that she wished I was going to go with her cause then the consulate would be nice to her since she told me that they normally were rude with the Ethiopians. So I began to pray that God's kindness would be on the consulate and that God's confidence would be on Hanna. I spent the day praying and fasting for her and the interview.
Well at 3 am Thursday morning I got a call from my beautiful bride to be. She told me they didn't give her the visa. My heart just sunk and I began to question why, then she told me with a very excited voice they did give her the visa. I stopped her then and we just began to pray a prayer of thanksgiving. She told me afterwards that the consulate was very sweet and kind to her. Oh God you are so good. You answered my prayer and showed us favor. She told me how the interview went and she said she went into the interview with all of the paperwork ready to give it to her the consulate. The consulate was going over the application that I had sent in here, the U.S. She asked her one question that followed by another question and it was, "What does your fiance do in his spare time?" with no hesitation she said the answer with confidence, "He coaches!" Her next question was, "What does he coach?" and again with confidence, "He coaches football!" That sparked a conversation how the consulate loves football and then asked her where she got her hair done cause she loved it. Then she said to Hanna my wonderful beautiful wife to be, "Congratulations, you have been granted your visa!" As I write this I am listing Pandora radio and they are playing how awesome is the Lord most high by Chris Tomlin.
God how awesome you are. You have been so good to us. 406 days it took from filing to being granted a visa. God has been so good to us.
Whatever you are waiting on from the Lord hang in there. God is faithful as well as He is merciful.
Thank you for reading. God bless you!
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