SO FAR!!!!

We have earned over 600 dollars from the garage sale so far! God is good!!! We have one day left!!! Please pray that after the day is through we have made 1000 dollars... or more!!! That would be an awesome goal! Please pray also that people would generously give, as many have, with extra donations!!! We also have the auction coming up Sunday! PLEASE PLEASE pray with all your might that this too will be an extremely profitable benefit and that MANY MANY people show up to bid!!!! Thanks!!! - Hope and Rob

I have a crush!!!

Isn't he so handsome!!!!! I honestly have to say... I never knew I could love so intensely again! I have a crush on both our kids, don't get me wrong... but when we go to Haiti in a couple of weeks, we will officially be asking the kids if we could be their parents... and David is the one I expect to make the official decision. So, I have to say... I never felt this questioning, "does he really love me" feeling, since I wondered if Rob loved me in 6th grade. Do you know that feeling I mean? When you find your true love... or maybe your first crush and you are just dieing to know if that person loves you as much as you love them? You just wished you could read their mind!! I totally want to send David a letter that says "Do you love me? Will you be mine?... check yes or no"! I have a twinge of nervousness in me, thinking of that moment... when Rob and I ask David and Isabel be our kids... but mostly I have confidence, God has already confirmed to us that this is right in so many ways. I just can't wait for the moment David checks YES!!!!!!! And yes he is a graduate!!! What a boy!!! Congrat's David! We are SO SO SO proud of you!!! We can't wait to know you and Isabel more!!!

FIRST HOME STUDY MEETING!

Please pray for our first home study meeting tomorrow night at 7:00. It's just an initial informational meeting... but it is the start of something huge!!!!!

FEELING IT

SO... one thing (among others) that I learned in church today... is that the beautiful Aboriginal people of Australia still have something our culture has lost. They feel it! Before I tell you what that means... let me alert you to one thing we all need to know... Aboriginals were considered ANIMALS until 40 years ago! That means you could legally rape, kill or kidnap them and not get charged with a crime! What a horrible act of the Devil is that!!!!?? We need to pray for these beautiful people. Pray for the spiritual healing for these people as well as physical healing... their bodies have been shocked by the carbohydrate loaded diet that has been brought to society.

So what do they feel? The Spirit God has put in each of us. When these beautiful people great each other they prefer to touch the person they meet by a handshake or a hug in order to feel the Spirit inside the other person... sounds weird to us at first... but I believe it can be beautiful. So... I feel like today a wonderful aboriginal couple explained to me exactly what I felt when I touched my children for the first time... I felt the Spirit in them confirming to the Spirit in me that they were my children. NO DOUBT, NO going back... and NO DIVISION by physical differences. Did you feel that quickening in your Spirit with YOUR kids? Did you feel it the first time you hugged you husband before you even knew he was your husband? I believe God does allow us to experience each other in the Spirit, but we are often too busy and desensitized to feel it. Next time you hug someone... keep you Spirit alert!

Oh yeah... one more thing...Aboriginal people also believe we are ALL one family... BLOOD family, EVEN if we vary in color. They would welcome you or me, just as well as they would welcome someone we would classify as one of them. They do not see color... they see family. NO MATTER WHAT...they seriously believe (as do I) that we are all one family, with NOTHING dividing us. AMEN!!!!!!???????

GARAGE SALE!!!!

We just wanted to alert everyone about the most amazing garage sale you will ever attend!!!! It will be held at 757 N. 11 Mile at Rob's parents house! PLEASE come!!! It is right in between Mt. Pleasant and Midland... so there's no excuse for missing it!!! Why is it the most amazing garage sale ever you ask....? Well because every penny, dime or dollar spent will bring us all closer to seeing David and Isabel come home!!! AND you will get to take SOMETHING home!!! Something you have been needing, or looking for... YOU WILL find it here!!! I guarantee it... because it you DON'T I will HELP you find it!!!! =) Ok ok .... I will try not to be so pushy...but... it is for a great cause... and you have extra change in your pocket... I can hear it right now... seriously... I can... OH WAIT... Rob said he can hear it too... we know that sound so well... because we never hear it around here anymore.... =)

Ok....

So...

Seriously...

You're coming right?









How can you say no to these faces!!!!!!???

Oh and don't forget... the same weekend... to take a trip over to the Silent Auction at Barstow shelter. 1:00 on July first! There will also be AWESOME items there! Make it a Krotzer weekend!!!

AND.... if you don't know what CHALLENGE 100 is... take a look below! MANY have already taken the challenge. Will you!!!??? We only need 64 more donors to reach our goal!!!

We love you all!!!! - Hope, Rob, David and Isabel

The Beautiful Colors of Adoption!

Our children are a beautiful shade of brown, and we are a beautiful shade of white. And today God used the animal part of our family to remind us how beautiful it is when colors mix! God created us to go together!











Do you know how boring the world would be if God thought different colors shouldn't go together!!

Naming Isabel

Ok... TIME FOR AN AMAZING STORY!!! So we have been tossing around ideas for names for David and Guillanda, part of me hates renaming them, not wanting to take away from who they are... but part of me wants to give them a fresh start. Well, while in Haiti and especially on the way home I was thinking of what we might name Guillanda. Rob suggested Naomi... which we both really liked... but come to find out there is actually another Naomi in our town adopted from Three Angels!!! What is the chance of that happening! Yet even before knowing that, I kept telling Rob I really felt like her name was a very soft name with an "s" in it. I felt like it was at the tip of my tongue, but I just couldn't place it! Well, two nights ago it finally rolled off my tongue! Isabel. At times I think she looks like an Isabel, other times I don't, so I was still not 100% sure... but 99%~ I liked this name... and Rob liked it too. Well, today, I went over to my moms house for awhile and while I was sitting and chatting with her I mentioned that we were thinking about naming Guillanda, Isabel. Then my mom teared up and told me we "better name her Isabel" and she reminded me of something that happened about two years ago, possibly about the time of Isabel's birth.

Mom's Pastor was giving a sermon series about intercession and due to the messages mom went home that night and prayed that if God really wanted to use her to intercede for someone, that He would do it, she was open to it. Well later that night she woke up and clearly felt God ask her to "Pray for the children". What children? She had no clue what to focus on so she prayed for all the children around the world. After praying she went back to sleep and a couple hours later, she woke up again, hearing God tell her "Pray for Isabel". My mom claims to have never heard God so clearly before that night, or even since then! So "WHO IN THE WORLD is Isabel" she wondered, then she prayed. I COMPLETELY remember the day that I came over and she asked me if I knew anyone named Isabel, because God woke her up to pray for her last night. I racked my brain, but I couldn't think of anyone, only a little girl in my preschool class who seemed to be fine and healthy. So time passed and I never thought much about it again UNTIL TODAY!!! Who is Isabel? It is the little girl I held, whose smell I already know, who needed a soft name with an "s" in it! Isabel Guillanda Krotzer! How happy this day of confirmation has made my heart! Thank you Lord for using Grandma so well!!!

CHALLENGE 100

OK... so here we go! Besides those who respond to this blog, I know many of you are watching often for updates. Here is our fundraising update. We are planning a campaign called Challenge 100. Our goal is to get 100 people to donate 100 dollars toward our adoption. WE KNOW this can happen! So many of you care and these kids need to come home. We're not trying to guilt anyone into this, but think about this honestly, think of not having a mom and dad. Think of all that entails emotionally for a child! Now think of all the little things we honestly save up 100 dollars for. A lawnmower, a new outfit, a trip camping, a new radio... I know I know.... GAS. Now... how about giving to a good cause, how about healing emotions with your 100 dollars, how about filling a family sized hole in a little boy's heart, how about giving a little girl the chance to know she has a hope and will always be loved... I don't know about you... but that sounds to me like a good BUY!!! A good reason to give! Please come along side of us and help with this challenge. We will soon have fliers ready for your work place, your family, your church or wherever else you feel a desire to pass them out. prayforasia@netzero.net Please let us know if you are willing to help spread the word and bring David and Guillanda home. We are also challenging you to give. Donations of any size are welcome, and if you truly feel you can't give... we totally still love you and we respect your decision!!!!! =) In that case please pray for us that someone would be prompted to give 100 dollars, and believe that God will hear your prayer!


I also felt called to attach my recent response to an email I received... after writing it I realize there are many of you that might enjoy this...



"Rob and I have had an interesting on-going story that is FINALLY coming into focus. We have been married for almost 4 years and we have not been able (SO FAR) to have biological children. Since I was about 15 years old however, I knew I would adopt some day. God was creating a passion in me to adopt. Rob was on a mission trip to the Philippines for a couple weeks when I felt prompted to pray very hard that God would touch His heart to want to adopt... well Rob came back excited about adopting. God is so so good. Well, Rob prayed about adopting and felt that we should adopt from China. That possibility has just currently closed to us however, due to new restrictions set by Chinese law... so the exact month we found out China was not an option Haiti came on the horizon. A friend of mine emailed me one day (not really knowing me or my situation at that point) and said it was on her heart that Rob and I might look into adopting from Haiti. I actually wrote it off at first still thinking MAYBE China would end up being an option... not because WE were so set on it, but honestly because we felt that was where God was leading us. Well, this friend's husband is my doctor and two weeks later (supposedly not even knowing it had already been suggested) he had suggested that maybe we should think of adopting from Haiti. So I finally started to pray about it. My dear friend emailed me persistently one more time, I prayed about at least going to Haiti and asked Rob to pray about going too... He actually was planning on going to Guatemala at the time, so things didn't look so good, but after a week of prayer he felt sure he needed to make plans to go to Haiti. Thank you Lord for redirecting our steps!!!


SO we were looking on the website a lot, trying to see if God quickened our hearts to any kids. At first Herman and Elmise were on my heart, I thought they were SO SO adorable. A couple of days later however, I was looking on line and praying again and felt God shift my heart to David and Guillanda. When Rob got home from work I drug him upstairs to look at the computer and told him what I felt God was telling me. Rob really had no response quite yet. It was hard to decipher what God was saying because for some reason Rob was starting to feel more lead to Herman and Elmise.

So when we went down to Haiti we tried to keep a very open mind, since we felt so confused about who to adopt. So many people told us we would "just know" who are kids were when we got there. Well honestly for the first two days we didn't... And I was so bummed!!! I again started doubting myself and the situation... BUT THEN the third day came. On the second day I had spent a lot of time with Daivd but not so much with Guillanda...so on the third day I decided to go up to the nursery and get Guillanda. (Herman and Elmise were just not drawn to us by the way) Well, she is a little more shy then the other babies so I wasn't sure how things would go... but she nearly instinctively walked up to me with her arms slowly raising upward... Guillanda just does not do that... if you watch her, she lets all the other babies run up and get the attention. It was one of the most beautiful moments of my life. I had to reach over about ten other babies to grab my girl but she had such a look of thankfulness on her face for being the one that got to be picked up. After that I had a hard time not holding her. So the next day as I held her I looked at Rob and I just couldn't hold back... I said... "This is our baby girl Rob, I just know it..." and Rob said... "I know" What a powerful moment! Later the same day we were watching David eat dinner and I just looked at Rob and said "Rob that's your boy!" Again with tears in his eyes Rob said "I know" Rob is not a man of many words, so those two words spoke volumes to my heart. Rob will not agree to anything unless he has been convinced 110 %... so these words were such a welcome treat!!!! On Sunday we went to church and Guillanda was sitting on my lap and God gave me one last confirmation. I'm not sure if you have kids, but you know how instinctively from raising them, when you cuddle them, they each have their own smell? And you just love to smell the top of their head when you cuddle them? Well, I was cuddling Guillanda during Church and lowered my head to smell her, and I am not kidding you, it's like I knew that smell from somewhere and I just started crying because I knew without a doubt that she was my daughter... I knew her smell. God is so awesome.


It's so amazing how God sets things up too. I wanted someone to cuddle and Rob wanted someone to play outside with and God saw the desires of our hearts and blessed us. It is also amazing how much the kids both act like we did when we were kids. David is always outside (even when he's not supposed to be) and he is always getting dirty and being amazingly creative-that is totally Rob... and Guillanda seems shy and yet also "sensitive"... one day when I walked in the nursery all the kids started singing "Mama Guillanda" over and over and she got sad or mad (not liking being put on the spot) and started slapping the other kids hands and then she just started to cry... that is totally something I would have done... I have to admit!

So that's our story so far... We will be going back in July thank Goodness!!! God bless!!!! Thanks for wanting to know our story!! "

LET THE CHALLENGE BEGIN!!! Thanks for you help!

Donations can be sent to:

Rob and Hope Krotzer
270 N. Broncos Dr.
Sanford, MI 48657