Wonderful Wednesday turns in to Wicked Wednesday!!

So, where do I even begin?? For a few months now I have had a gut feeling that something just wasn't right with our agency. I didn't know exactly what was going on, but I just had a feeling. I will try and make this as short as possible, and will keep some info. out as well for privacy purposes. A week ago, our director quit with no notice. On Monday, we started receiving emails from a few people that had brought their children home, saying that they were coming together and seeking legal counsel against our agency due to things that happened during their process. Now bear in mind, this was the agency that helped us to bring Callum home. They were with us through thick and thin back then, and I just couldn't believe what I was reading. A few of us felt that this was very one sided and that the agency had a right to defend themselves. That being said, we let them know.(wasn't that nice of us?) Now move forward to today. Today, our update day, I get an out of office reply from our one and only contact person and old CEO of our agency. It states that she no longer works there. We have no contact information and her phone has been shut off. I have had contact with the board of directors from the agency and they are very nice, but dont' really have much information at this point.
I started calling and emailing everyone I could think of for help. I talked to Senators, Adoption advocates, you name it, I emailed or called. Eventually we were able to contact the translator that we used while in Guatemala for Callum's adoption. My friend Robin was able to supply his information and we knew that he knew our facilitator in Guatemala. Ok, time for answers. Gareth got through on the second call. He remebered us, (what isn't to remember, a handsome british guy and a beautiful baby with a killer smile) and said that he was willing to call and see what he could do. He told us to call back in 30 minutes. We called LOTS of people asking for prayers. our friends Demarie and David came over and we sat with our children and prayed!!!
We know we must have had so many people praying because we really did feel it, so thank you.
Gareth calls our translator back and got answers, just not the ones that we wanted.

1. WE are approved by the Guatemalan Government. That is a positive.
2. The birth mother has not signed off so Nicholas is not legally our like we were told.
3. We have not been submitted for our birth certificate like we were told (3 weeks ago) because they can not do that with out the birth mother's final signautre.
4.The birth certificate for him if we are able to get it will take almost 2 months, not 5-7 days.
5. Lastly, none of this has happened because the second half of our adoption fees have not been paid.
Yup, you read that right. Oh, yes, we paid them in May!! But somehow our lawyer and facilitator never got them. Considering our contact and former CEO is now AWOL, that leads us to believe that the money is gone.
We are hoping to know more in the next few days. There have been so many reports and articles written lately about how awful the Guatemalan government is. How ironic that our American agency was the one to do this to us.
We are not sure if we will be able to complete the adoption now, but will keep you posted on what we find out.
That is all I will post for now.
We truly appreciate your prayers and support through this difficult time.