He Has a Passport

After applying for a passport twice and fifteen months later, Joseph has his Republic of Argentina Passport! Abby, Joseph, and I traveled by bus to Posadas, the capital of Misiones province, on Thursday morning and picked up Joseph's passport from the Policia Federal. We are very excited and thankful. Praise the Lord!

I will explain why we had problems getting his passport for those of you who may not know the story. Joseph was born two and half weeks after we arrived in Argentina as tourists. It turns out that here in the province of Misiones there had been an ongoing problem of poor mothers selling there babies to foreigners. Several cases came to light and all the babies involved had falsified birth certificates, documents, etc. So when we applied for Joseph's passport, it immediately made some red flags go up. The passport agency of the Federal police never contacted us to let us know, but after several inquires by us they asked for a copy of my permission to fly while I was pregnant. I had misplaced mine, but thankfully my midwife had another copy and promptly sent it to me. We had to have this translated and I missed the deadline to get it to them, so the original passport application was denied. We reapplied with the permission to fly document in May and this time they approved the application. Thank the Lord!

Here is Joseph looking it over.





We still need to report Joseph's birth and apply for his United States Passport at the U.S. embassy in Buenos Aires. I scheduled an appointment to do so on September 16th, and plan, Lord willing, to travel with Joseph there the night before. Abby willl most likely accompany me to help. Dane plans to travel to the embassy at a later date to complete the paperwork.

Also this past week, Dane completed two more sections of wall around the attic. He is leaving the top foot on the ends open for now because he doesn't have a good way to reach that area to work without a ladder. He may just screen in the open part later for more ventilation instead of putting up wood. We are going to see how it goes and how it stands up to the rain before deciding.



These are some pictures that Dane took from the attic when he was up there working one rainy day.





Dane is continuing to try to get all of our projects underway. Besides working on the house this past week, he worked on getting the beehives ready for occupants, he bought all the piping for the hydroelectric project and a couple more used implements for the tractor/crawler: a seed planter and a sicklebar. He didn't make it to the fabricator to discuss the distillery components but will probably do so next week.

The children have been busy picking wildflowers. They like to bring me home little bouquets and have me take pictures of them, so here is the latest one.



Well that's all we have for now. Until next time.

Jessica