2 cool stories!

Okay I have a cool story to share today, well two!! So, today Brian went to the bank to open up our official adoption checking account. Our smart friends in the adoption world said make sure to make it a checking account because that's what we'll write our checks out of to the agency and for all the fees. Anyway, Brian got to go in with that big stack o' cash from the Rummage Sale to deposit! He opened the account and then went up to the front to actually make the deposit. Brian ended up telling the bank teller about how we are adopting and how all this money was from a fundraiser. That's when she told him that she and her husband had been talking about adopting. How, in fact, they had just recently had a conversation about it. They said, "Well we're really young, we thought you had to be 30 to adopt." So Brian said, "No way! Not in every country!" She was excited to hear that. She said that they just had a 9 month old so they aren't starting tomorrow or anything but still, what a great way to confirm adoption for that family! God is so good to use us to speak to people's hearts.

Second cool story. I wore my new brown Africa tshirt w/ the continent and an E over Ethiopia on it to school today. (you can scroll down and see my grandma wearing one!) This shirt, by the way, was donated to us along w/ several others. Actually, my 9th grade Spanish teacher and her husband just adopted a little boy from Ethiopia and they donated the shirts to us to sell. Awesome huh? So, I'm wearing my shirt and people LOVE it! You know what else? Kids love it! Tons of my students were reading the back and asking me about it. One kid in the hall said, "Did you live in Texas?" Haha, I said, "oh no, this is Africa." So, the back says, "Every child needs a home" and students would read it and ask what that means. I explained that not every child in the world has a home. Some kids don't have parents because of different reasons. They said, "really? that's sad." Then I explained that we are adopting one. Several others beat me to it and said, "ohhh so they need families to help them and take them in" And I said, "EXACTLY!!" I love when kids get things like that.

Much love,