We headed to the immigration office after my morning meeting with the Hilo, Aguja and Biblia leaders. We were working on the schedule for the rest of the year.
It was just after noon when we got there--usually lunch time is not the best time, but it was the time we had. We were close and it just didn't make sense to go all the way home and then go back. Of course, we were short a couple of copies. From year to year, you never know what they're going to want copied. Unfortunately, when you need copies you have to get out of line, get the copies made and then get back in line. We finally got our "number" about 1:00 p.m. and it was time to settle into the chairs and wait. We hoped it wouldn't be too long. They were on #5 and we were #8. After an hour or so, we realized that there was only one person taking "our" type of number. Anyway, we were called to the desk about 2:30 and it took him only a matter of 10 minutes to verify that we had all of the correct paperwork.
New this year--you don't wait for them to verify the paperwork. Instead he gave us an appointment on Tuesday when they are supposed to have confirmed/verified that everything is in order so we can move to the next step in the process. IF all goes well on Tuesday, we should be able to pay the fees for the next year and have our pictures taken for our temporary cards. I may, however, be getting a little ahead of myself, so I'll just report back on Tuesday afternoon.
All in all, not a bad day--in and out in just a little over 2 hours. Thanks for praying for us . . . . next prayer date is this Tuesday afternoon!
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