Ghana Field Journal — Missions With the Consfords
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Bonjour, Joe took the kids to school. Then, he took the vehicle to the painter. They started getting the different rust spots that the welder had repaired ready…
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Bonjour,
Joe took the kids to school. Then, he took the vehicle to the painter. They started getting the different rust spots that the welder had repaired ready to be painted.
Yesterday, a man from Immigrations called and said that he needed evidence that we had turned paperwork in at the Interior office in Accra. Mack Siekbert picked Joe up and took him to the Immigration office. Joe showed him the receipt. First, the guy asked why we were requesting a visa extension instead of filing for a residents' visa. Joe explained that we were wanting to get the residents' visa, but we were awaiting the approval of the paperwork in Accra. Then, the man said that to apply for quota approval, we were not supposed to be in the country. Then, he started asking questions about the quota that we are trying to get on. He wanted to know why the person in charge of the quota had not come and introduced himself. Joe explained that he and Charlie had both come to the office and talked to someone together, but the boss man was upset that they had not talked to him. Charlie went down with a letter of introduction this afternoon. Joe will go back to the office tomorrow to find out what the man decided. It is all up to him. He can decide to give us the ninety day extension, or he can deny the extension and make us leave the country. If we have to leave the country, we will have thirty days to leave. Pray that he will grant us the extension and that we will not have to leave.
Mack took Joe back to the painter. Joe was there until 7:00 this evening, but they finished the job.
Dan brought the kids home in a taxi. The kids changed clothes and went up to the Luthers.
Bonnie informed me that she had to go see the principal today. She said, "It wasn't just me, Mom; it was everybody. We didn't do our seatwork correctly." I said, "Your whole class had to go to the office?" She said, "Well, I guess it was just several of us, four, no five of us." She said that the principal talked to them and looked at their papers. Gilbert was happy because he finished his seatwork.
I got supper ready. Joe's phone battery had died. We didn't know when he was coming. So, we went ahead and ate supper without him. He ate when he got home.
A demain,
Joe, Laura, Gilbert, Danny, and Bonnie