Another Bump...I Can't Believe It

When I arrived home yesterday evening from a conference in Oklahoma City, I opened my email and found a message from Jynger. Subject line was "update on passport". So...I got excited. That excitement was short lived.

First...we have to be thankful...Ian's passport has been issued. So, that's the good news.

I can't believe it...but there's bad news.

His passport is lost in the mail. I thought that only happened in Oklahoma. His passport was issued on January 28th and mailed to the orphanage the same time as the other family that's still waiting for their little girl's passport. Her's arrived on Thursday (I think it was Thursday based on the fax that Jynger received in the office on Friday....of course it could have been Friday, the time difference messes me up). A red flag went up and Anju called the passport office. They told her that it had been issued and mailed at the same time. The "main" post office in Kolkata has a record of it passing through there, but the "local" post office does not. I just can't believe this.

Apparently this has happened one other time before. The passport was delivered to another office in Kolkata and it was found. She's hoping that's what has happened to Ian's. She is sending her staff out today looking for it and hopefully they'll find it.

So, what does this mean? We still are traveling on Tuesday. Anju said that if it is not found, then we'll have to file for a duplicate. That could delay us 2-3 days in Kolkata, which could delay our return trip home. We will go to the passport office with her on Thursday when we arrive in Kolkata. I'm really OK with that. Not that I want actually experience the Kolkata passport office. If it only takes 2-3 days once we arrive, then we should have it by Monday 2/20. If that's the case, then we'll only have to change our domestic flight within India. If it takes longer than Monday, then we'll probably have to change the return flight home.

That's where the major problem comes in. Usually the flights are full from Delhi to the US. So, we're hoping that if we have to delay the return to the US that we'll be able to find a flight to come home one.

We need everyone to just pray, pray, pray that his passport is found before we arrive in India. God is in control of this and every situation and He is the only one that can take care of this. We need all of our friends to just pray for this situation and us right now.

No matter what, we still get Ian next Friday, 2/17.

Keep praying my friends...we need the prayers now more than ever!!!!