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Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Emma's Story part 2

So, for two months, I didn't say anything about it to anyone but I kept remembering the experience I had in church and with my grieving mother heart didn't know what to make of it. Then, in August, I felt like I was constantly thinking of it. You know how when you get a prompting from the spirit and you don't act on it, it kind of just goes away. Well this kept coming and coming and it really left me kind of confused. I got to the point where I started asking Heavenly Father to please bless me to know it I was supposed to act on these feelings. Well.....Just before school started, I had the kids in swimming lessons and on their first day, I was sitting poolside watching them when a woman with 5 little black kids came in. I could not stop myself from looking at them and finally approached her and in hopes that I didn't offend her, I asked her if these were her children.(She was white) She said they were and started tellimg me how each one of them came into her family. Long story short, I told her that I was starting to be very interested in adopting an African American baby, and she got all excited and told me that she actually teaches a class on adoption and all the ins and outs of the process. I couldn't believe it. It seemed like it was a direct answer to my prayers. I scheduled a time to attend her class and went home to tell Jeff. He was not thrilled with the idea. He didn't want to go to a class, it seemed like a giant waste of time to him since we weren't going to adopt. I did go. She tought a very informatinve class about all the different ways you could go about adopting domestic, international, special needs, infants, older children, etc... But more than that, the spirit was so strong as I watched videos of transracial adoptive families. When I left the class I felt sure that the answer to my questions about my experience in church was yes, yes, yes, I was supposed to act on it. Now....how to let Jeff know........

6 comments:

Ellie McFreaken said...

Loving the story Rachel! I finally put a few pictures of Emma pn my blog....feel gree to downlaod them to your computer until the rest are done.
You are awesome! Hope everything is going well!!!!

Ellie McFreaken said...

P.S. call me if you ever need a babysitter!

Angela said...

Wow I never heard the part about the swimming lessons etc. That is awesome Rachel. You are so in tune. That's why I need to do my visiting teaching on a regular basis! Hopefully you'll wear off on me a bit. Love that baby Emma and dito to Angie...I want to babysit! Or just take a nap with her. :)

Ellie McFreaken said...

Hey Rach....can you email me that photo spot we talked about with your cousin????
Thanks girl....
jakeangellie@yahoo.com

Jodi said...

Oh Rachel!!! I love Emmas story!!! Hows it going? I want to come see her and hold her again!! Shes so cute!!

Natalie said...

I saw your name on Heidi's blog and I wanted to check in. I had no idea. I'm so happy for you. We were in Africa last fall and I wanted to bring one of the little black boys so bad. They are so cute. I am happy for you. Your baby is so cute. It's fun to peek in and see your life after all these years.