February 19, 2015

Partial Success.  Yesterday we went to San Salvador for the third time.  I guess any day in San Salvador without a driving accident is a very successful day.  We went first to the lawyer/translator/notary public.  We had one paper left that had to be notarized.  As we understood this paper the one I signed said I was responsible for our expenses here in El Salvador and the one Charlotte signed said that she agreed that I was responsible for her expenses as well as mine.  We joked that Charlotte could go on a spending spree.  The secretary said that we needed a copy of the founding charter of the Church of Christ in El Salvador.  Cesar called a preacher in San Salvador who was also the “president” of the churches here and he had the original charter in his possession.  So we went and got the charter and made a copy of it to put in each of our sets of papers.  We got back to the lawyer’s office at 11:30 and the lawyer was out to lunch so we went to lunch and came back at 12:30-third time.   All the papers were ready and the secretary looked over the requirements papers from the government and said she thought we had everything.  So we went to immigration.  They put us in a room with several waiting chairs and about 8 small cubicles.  Charlotte was called in first and she took a little while but my turn took only a few minutes because everything was identical.  There had been one change since Caleb and Della applied-birth certificates were no longer needed.  We had going to a place in Montgomery for mine and then spent a while traveling around Jackson, Miss for Charlotte’s but they didn’t even look at them.  The lady who looked at our papers said everything looked ok but that we had so many papers they needed time to make sure everything was in order.  We have appointments for Monday morning –Charlotte at 10:30 and me at 11:00 to find out if we are approved so pray that will be the case and we will be all done with our visa applications.  All has gone really well, but like everything so far Caleb and Della paved the way and made it smooth for us where it was pretty rocky for them.   Then we went to Walmart and went on that shopping spree.  We got some items that we needed and some we could not find anywhere else but not too much.  We went by Super Selectos for some groceries and got home early.   Then Brian came by for about an hour visit.   Then we watched our first computer movie in El Salvador.