Well the 19th has come and gone and we are still not very far along with our boxes. We finished the paper work that was asked of us and sent it to Quito but received word last Thursday that it still wasn't good enough and that they want one more thing.
The next piece of paper work that they want is a contract in Ecuador, however as we are on a missionary visa, we cannot get an Ecuadorian contract without being paid in Ecuador. And since we are paid from Canada that makes getting a contract difficult.
After talking to a few other people we decided to hire a lawyer who also happens to be Jenny's nephew. He works in Quito and has been a lawyer to the customs people for many years so he has quite a few connections with the customs. We have now sent him everything that we were asked for from the customs people and he said that we shouldn't have been asked to send everything that we have to them. And in fact shouldn't have to send anything else to them except for our visas that show we work in Ecuador and are missionaries that get paid from outside of the country. He also said it was pretty strange that they were asking for so much stuff, when we clearly will be living here for many years.
We hope that this lawyer will be able to do something for us about our boxes that we haven't been able to do. At least be able to talk to the customs officer in charge and not just the in between people like we have only been able to talk to. Please be in prayer that the lawyer can get our boxes for us and that we can start putting this frustrating process behind us. Please pray that the lawyer will get back to us quickly and have some good news about our boxes.
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