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OUR STORY
We are the Sabela's.
We found each other on 3 different continents but all met
in Tanzania. Lilia my wife and I met when she was here in Arusha volunteering at an orphanage, and I was volunteering at a local school in a remote area called Dongobesh. After we met we went our separate ways not knowing weather we will see each other again.
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Lilia then met our future kids Angel and Joshua. They were
the new children that have been rescued from a very poor home, abandoned by there parents and brought to the orphanage.
Lilia went home with a huge desire to adopt Angel. 6 months down the road God showed her dreams about her going and getting her little girl. She was thrilled because she couldn't get Angel
out of her heart. Single at the time Lilia had to make a huge decision to go through with the process. Not many on board with her plan and vision at the time she still went ahead with it. Knowing for sure God is calling her there and will be by her side all the way.
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1 year in the process Lilia and I started talking more through Facebook and occasional Skype calls. Our love grew for each other but we remained friends. I was waiting to come to Africa as a volunteer again to the same school in Dongobesh. Having health complications I couldn't leave my country. Waiting to see each other face to face so I can tell her how I feel about her was getting long and hard.
Finally we decided to start dating through Skype. We were both excited and curious at the same time. Lilia was a little nervous about me joining her journey to adopt because it was something that God told her to do, and didn't want to push it on me. She didn't know that even before I met her I was talking about wanting to adopt kids in the future as well.
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Christmas 2016 I asked Lily if I can fly her out to meet my family and spend holidays with us. That was the first time we'd see each other in 2 years and 2 days since we met. We ended up hitting it off. It was amazing time together along with the holidays and family meetings. We were best friends happy to have found each other. We discussed all things we love about life, family and God and it was like we were the same person. Before Lilia returned to Tanzania I proposed to her on her favourite spot in Prague, which totally worked yay for me.
She then returned back to Tanzania and I planned to join her soon after.
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Before leaving to Tanzania I went to see my doctor and she said I am in good health and can now travel. My health issue was and is still a mystery because the doctors never found what was wrong with me before and couldn't understand why I was totally fine later. A miracle
in timing is what we call it now. One month later I met my fiancé
in Tanzania. We started planning our wedding right away and told her family that our wedding will be in August.
In July we went back to Prague together to finish planning the big day. Had a wonderful wedding that we both did not expect we could afford or pull off. Our friends and family came from the United States and we had an amazing time hanging out in Prague and celebrating before and after the wedding. Everything we received from our guests covered the rest of our expenses and was enough to have a great honeymoon. It was just straight magical.
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Returning back to Tanzania we had a few court hearings about Angel and received guardianship. Our dream came true and we were besides ourselves. We couldn't believe what God told my wife can be achieved came through right in front of our eyes along with us all becoming family.
After the final paper work we got a new surprise.
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Joshua (Angel's cousin that was also in the same orphanage) needed a family
and there was no one to take him. Angel's relatives ask our lawyer
if there is a couple like Lilia and I, that would like to adopt Joshua.
Side story on Joshua we were thinking a lot about him while
in process of getting Angel. Lilia had a few dreams about him
and he was strongly on my heart as well. Because it's been a long
and difficult journey getting Angel we thought we'd wait to take Joshua. Give it a year to adjust to parenting and then come back
for him. Well then as you can see the opportunity came sooner then we had expected and had to act on it right away. In a way we were pretty excited it came sooner because we already loved him.
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Here we are now . Waiting to adopt both kids and come home.
With courts rescheduling so often we decided to become part of The Joshua Foundation and get involved in the community while we are in the waiting period.
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