We are here! Praise the Lord! We slept well last night! Beijing is much prettier than we even expected! The hotel we are staying in is very nice! It is called the Radisson SAS (not sure what SAS stands for! 🙂 )! It is decorated in Scandinavian IKEA decor! The bed is just right and sleeps very comfortably! We have highspeed internet in the room, so updating you on our journey is very easy to do!
Before we tell you more about how things have gone so far, I just want to take a moment and thank everyone for their prayers and support!
Mom and Dad Battle and Mattson, it means so much to us to have parents who have prayed us through on this journey, and have been 100% supportive all of the way through it! We could not have made it to China without you and your prayers!
To Bethany Dena: we can’t thank you enough for the beautiful banner you made for Rebecca & for the beautiful song in Latin that you sang to us Tuesday before we left! Sarah and I are so proud of you and the stand you are taking for Jesus!
To all of our loved ones and church family: Wow! What can we say? We are so blessed to have you all in our lives! Rebecca will be surrounded by people who already love her, though they have not even seen her yet!
We will have one person who will be our guide the whole time! Her name is Sherry! She is so sweet and very knowledgeable! Ask her anything, and she can either give you the answer or find out the answer! Thank God for her! We will have a picture of her later for you!
Later on today, I will be going downstairs to make some final preps on our documentation that we will need to have in Wuhan.
Also later, we will go to Carrefour, China’s version of Wal-Mart, across the street from our hotel. It is huge! It is two stories high, and has food on one floor and everything else on the other.
Our hotel is full of European businessmen and women! At breakfast, we heard languages spoken that were from all over Europe.
Anyway, it is so nice to have a free day before the whirlwind schedule begins. Tomorrow at 8:30AM, we leave for a day of touring the sights!
Keep us in your prayers!
Enjoy the pictures!
Until tomorrow, God bless!
Love,
Brandon & Sarah
Our hotel room in Beijing:
View of Downtown Beijing from our hotel room:
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God bless!
Love,
Brandon and Sarah
Thank God for technology! It is wonderful to be able to see where you are staying. We love y’all. Woke up during the night praying for you. The angels of the Lord are encamped round about you and Rebecca Jiayi.
Hello Brandon we have been praying for the both of you so that you would be safe and have great time there. Im sure you will remember this time the rest of your lives.God bless the both of you and I wil look forward to seeing more of your trip.
You guy’s website is great! It’s so fun to see updates on your trip in China! Your room in Beijing looks pretty nice 🙂 I hope you all are doing great, and we all look forward to checking your site here at AWAA. We are especially excited to see your site after Monday when you meet your precious little girl!! God bless!
How wonderful it is to experience this journey with you! Thanks for the awesome pictures and details you are providing. We are praying for a smooth trip and adoption process. Andrew and Caroline send kisses to you and Rebecca.