SO...its finally come! That
letter in the mail that every person who is immigrating waits for. The
letter that the government send you to inform you that your application has
been approved...and I now have it, after a year and a half of waiting!
The next step is to go to the local immigration office for an interview,
which we have this Wednesday, pay them a bunch of money and wait for my
permanent resident card to come in the mail.
We are very excited that I have my permanent residency not only
because we are done waiting, but much more than that because I can now travel
to the US and will be allowed to come back in! As soon as I get my PR
card I will be free to travel out of Canada...what a relief that will be!
With my PR approval comes a potential trip for us. I have a
week off of work the week of August 6th, and we would love go to Idaho to visit
all of our friends, loved ones, and church family at Christ Community Church!
We miss everyone so much and it would be such a blessing to us to be able
to go and see everyone there.
We have some prayer requested associated with going this soon.
First of all I actually need to get my PR card in the mail before we go.
The trip would be 5 weeks after my interview, and I have been told it
could take 6-8 weeks to get my PR card after my interview. I have been
told this before with my work permit, and we received it in 2 weeks,
not 8 so we are hoping and praying for the same timing with my PR card. Second,
the price for the tickets for both of us to fly to Idaho. We do have some
of the money we would need to go, but we are praying for the Lord to provide us
with the rest of the funds. It will cost roughly $2100 for the air plane
tickets alone. We will be able to stay with family while we are there,
and we aren't sure about having to rent a car or not. It would be awesome
if someone has an extra car we could cruise around in for a couple
days, but if not then we would pay to rent one. We
know that if the Lord wills for us to go, the details will be worked out. He is indeed faithful to provide, and we are
trusting Him for everything!
On another notes, Mitch and I have been really
encouraged lately. We have had some amazing opportunities to talk with
some people from our church, Emmanuel Baptist Church, about Missions
and the Lord is working in some very exciting ways regarding missions in our
church. The details are still being worked out, but Mitch and I are
extremely excited to be involved in it. We will keep this updated as they
happen for sure. :)
Amanda, for the both of us :)
