Van: Verified.
Our van is verified. Talk about making a long story short.
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Every six months our van needs verification. If we don’t get it, we are severely limited in when we can drive it. Normally this means visiting Verificentro, having the van emissions tested, and getting the sticker. We want a “Cero” (Zero) sticker, which means we can drive any time of the day or week.
This time it involved 6 visits on six different days, many conversations, and many hours of waiting. I’m certainly glad I didn’t wait until the end of the month for my first visit!
I was waiting today (and taking the picture below), and I was as prepared as I thought I could be. But in a complex situation there are so many things that could go wrong – in the end, it’s so obviously God’s choice to answer or prayers or not. So thank you to those who were praying about this. It’s another one of those “small” things that quickly eats up a lot of time and energy.
In other news, we were charged about $100 that we felt was an unjust charge. Yesterday we finally heard that we wouldn’t have to pay it – two bits of good news for you!
On the visa front, things remain as complicated as ever. We had some more conversations with the lawyer this week, and it’s looking now that it will be several weeks or more likely months before anything is resolved. Not only has the system changed, it may change significantly again as our new president takes office.
So we’re trying to decide what the next step will be!
But again, God is in control. So we look to Him and wait for His plan in this matter.
29 November 2012 @ 6:23 am
Bravo!
29 November 2012 @ 6:39 am
YAY
29 November 2012 @ 9:32 am
IT’S ABOUT TIME!!! (I seriously hope that NEXT time you are able to waste MUCH LESS than 8 hours sitting there, waiting for them to figure out just how they’re gonna give us a zero sticker! Yikes!) ;O) Now, if we could just get some VISAS!!!
29 November 2012 @ 9:33 am
are you guys in process yet?
29 November 2012 @ 9:38 am
There IS NO “in process”!!! The ENTIRE process has changed (ie: there IS no FM3/”No Inmigrante” anymore!). So we aren’t sure (and neither is the lawyer) what we should do next. She’s trying to make sense of the changes, in order to advise us what to do. We may very likely have to leave the country…again…and re-enter under the new process…
29 November 2012 @ 9:39 am
wow
29 November 2012 @ 9:51 am
Yeah.
29 November 2012 @ 3:00 pm
So thankful to God for the two pieces of good news!
25 October 2014 @ 10:46 pm
Just re-read this. A lot of prayers have been positively answered since you posted this. Not always as quickly as we might have hoped though.
Let’s keep God’s faithfulness to us in the past in mind as we think ahead!