Update

Here's the latest....

Purchased plane tickets (round trip for Sara and I, 1-way for Misha) at about $2000 more than the budget we were given (that's with leaving a day early and saving $800 a ticket).

Purchased 2 30-day visas for Russia ($250 less than what was originally budgeted....woohoo!).

Booking hotel rooms for our stay in Moscow (to the tune of about $2000 more than originally budgeted).

Court in Krasnoyarsk doesn't like two of our documents (one which came straight from the State of California, but does not bear the "state seal" on it and one that is a copy of an original letter, but needs to be an original). We have no control over getting these documents done. They are in the hands of others.

Please pray for us! We are scheduled to leave Los Angeles on Tuesday afternoon. This leaves us with only 4 business days to get these documents done, one or both which might require a trip to Sacramento in this time. If these documents are not finished, we will lose our court date. Non-refundable visas and plane tickets.

With the uncertainty of these documents and being significantly under-resourced, never before has my faith been stretched so close to the breaking point. Lord give me strength...

JP