Okay.....The Name

For all of you who have been waiting (thanks mom and dad), we will announce our little guys name.  It is fun to figure out names for our children.  Some we have had for a long time and some come with prayer and time.  For a refresher, Samuel's full name is Olof Robert Samuel Kjernald.  He goes by Samuel.  


The first name is Olof (or course), all the men in Andreas' family have that in their name.  It will join our son with the new heritage that he is receiving in this family. 


The second in line is Xiao.  This will honor the name that he has been known by thus far.  This is a part of him and his story and we wanted to honor that.  


The third name (which is the one he will go by) is David.  David is a man after God's own heart in the Bible.  He was anointed at a young age by....Samuel to be King of Israel.  Samuel counseled him and pointed him to God and David continued on.  


So there you have it.   Olof  Xiao David Kjernald


We have found out that our tentative dates for traveling are from May 11 to May 25th.  We are soooooo very excited and will be calling around for airline tickets now.  If you have any advice on good adoption rates let me know.  


I would like to ask for special prayer for friends that are in Ethiopia right now.  Nina and Wes Mullins (you can click into there blog from the blogs I follow) have been in Ethiopia for about 2 1/2 months.  They have their twins with them, but there have been some problems in their court case and new papers being needed constantly.  At this point Wes will need to come home without the others.  Please pray that the paperwork will get done quickly and that Nina and the twins can go home and be with Wes again soon.  This is hard emotionally, financially and physically because they have twins.  Please pray for them and give if you feel the Lord leading you to do so.  Thank you.


Blessings,
laurie