Your prayers are being heard!

To be more precise, our Invitation Letter is not here yet. But what is new is an email from the official preparing our Letter. Not receiving any communication from the school has left us wondering what is going on. Well, the official wrote Sunday night telling us that there have been rule changes, and that it is more complicated to get the Invitation Letter approved. But, she assured us she is working on it. She even told us our apartment has been ready for us since August. She also said that the invitation Letter would not be ready before October.

This means we need to change our plane tickets, again. We are flying Hainan Air, and they have a straightforward policy for rebooking flights, so we are thankful for that. But the official still has not given us a date for which we can prepare.

Please pray with us for some clarity from the school about when we can expect to leave Canada/arrive in China. We really do not want to pick another date and then find out from the school that we guessed wrong. (As an aside, we bought these tickets a long time ago due to incredibly low prices, as well as with the assumption that surely everything would be ready within 3 months. By rebooking twice now we are actually still paying less than if we had not bought any tickets until now. But if we have to rebook a third time, then it will cost more).

To recap: We were due to leave August 20th, but we had to rebook because the official did not have the Letter ready.

We then were scheduled to leave this Sunday, September 20, having thought that the Letter would be ready within a month, but it is not and we are now delayed again.

We do not know what new date to schedule for our departure! It will not be until October sometime.