Sunday, March 25, 2007

A Busy Week Ahead

This coming week promises to take us out of our usual routine of classes, followed by homework each day. We will break from this routine on Tuesday morning when we will fly from Arequipa to Tacna. We plan to stay Tuesday night in Tacna and then we have to cross the border into Chile on Wednesday morning. Up until now Sarah has been living in Peru as a "tourist", we could only apply for her Visa after we had recieved our official residency card. Her Visa is ready to be collected in Lima and her residency card will also be picked up in Lima however before we do this we have to leave the country. On Wednesday we will then leave Peru, cross over into Arica, Chile and visit the consulate there.

When we return from Chile we will stay in Tacna for a few more days as we have a field conference on Friday. We look forward to this because it is our first chance to see many of the missionaries since our arrival here in Peru.

Following this we will fly north to Lima in order to visit immigration and collect Sarah's visa and residency card. This will likely take at least 24 hours. We anticipate flying back to Arequipa again the following Wednesday. The Institute is closed on the Thursday and Friday for Easter so it will give us a couple of days to recover from our travels. We would appreciate your prayers concerning our safety during our travels and also particularly that all the paperwork could be dealt with smoothly and quickly.

2 comments:

SFaloon said...

Wow! A busy schedule ahead, we'll be praying for you.

naomimurphy said...

well that should be an interesting trip. i hope you get more time to relax than having hassle with paper work. let me know what Chile is like!!