Sunday evening I preached at Born Again Missionary Baptist Church. I preached on what to do when you don't know what to do. Thank God that He is constant even though life's circumstances aren't.

Yesterday morning we went in to take care of some of the paperwork for our visas. Chris McBryar is helping us with all of our errands. In Chile, for a U.S. document to "count", it has to be legalized by a proper Chilean authority. It is kind of a long process. Yesterday we went in to the Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores to have our birth certificates, marriage license, and work contract from CMC legalized. I went in to the wrong place which proved to be blessed of the Lord. I asked the man at the help counter where I could get my documents legalized, and after a short conversation he asked us to sit down as he took the papers to the proper office around the corner. This meant that we probably skipped a short walk and a very long line. He said it was because of Micah, who is just 4 months old. Then we walked about 20 minutes to the next office: Extranjería. You have to go up a flight of stairs to the second floor. The line was so long that it came all the way outside of the waiting area, outside of the office, up and to the stairs. Thinking that Micah was my ticket, by the grace of God, we walked past the whole line and I asked the lady giving numbers out, "Where do you wait if you have a baby?" She handed me a number and said that it would get us to the front service counter right away. Sure enough, it did. I'm so thankful for God's hand at work in each situation.

The government worker (Cristian) that was helping us get the paperwork together for the visa said that we would get a response in 15-30 days, and that if the answer was in the affirmative the visa would take 2 months. I informed him that we'd be living in Coyhaique (here in Chile, that's known as the extreme south), and asked if we would have to come back to Santiago during any of that process. He said surprised, "You're going to be living in Coyhaique? We have an office there, and you can do all of this there. Plus, their requirements are easier than ours!" It will be very convenient to take care of the visa process from our future home.

Tracts, tracts, tracts. Time doesn't always afford us the opportunity to use our mouths to explain the glorious gospel of Christ, but I try to always give a gospel tract to every person I interact with. Even the waiter at the little cafe we stopped at for Micah to nurse.

Last night we got together with a bunch of missionary families for a going away/birthday party for Travis Birge. He was here for 6 months. We saw a lot of great friends: the Kenneys, the Holts, the McBryars, Susan Moore, as well as some short term missionaries. Unfortunately, my team lost in the board game we were playing.