Official Letter: Humanitarian/Welfare mission, Phnom Penh Cambodia.
Your mission president may change your assignment. Report for orientation on May 18.
Mission President: We're thinking
we would like to change your assignment to "Member/Leader
Support" (MLS) and are looking at how to manage that.
VN Govt.: Can't switch while
you're here. You have to leave the country and reapply if you
want to switch. It will take 30 days or so from application to
approval if you do.
Humanitarian/Welfare supervisors in Hong Kong:
Welcome! We understand that you will be serving as Humanitarian
missionaries in Hanoi. We'll arrange for your welfare training
in the US before you come.
Humanitarian/Welfare missionaries in Hanoi:
Welcome! One problem: The host organization contract states
that they will not host more than two couples at a time in the
country. We have two couples here already and none are
scheduled to leave before August. And there is one more couple
already scheduled to arrive to replace the two who leave then.
Mission President: Good to know.
We'll start the church support visa applications now.
Humanitarian/Welfare supervisors in Hong Kong: Good
to know.
Wheelchair specialist trainers in the U.S.:
Welcome! We'd like to meet with you before you leave for a
couple of hours of wheelchair training.
Wheelchair specialist trainers in Utah:
Well, maybe not. Never mind. We hear you won't be needing that training.
Us: Hi, Mission travel
department. Here is the postcard you wanted us to send you so
that you can make our flight reservations.
Mission President: We need the following documents from you to
put together your application.....
Mission Travel Department: We haven't
made your travel reservations yet. We are waiting to
hear about the timing of your visa. We might need to delay your
start date.
Mission President: We've finally
gotten all the papers submitted. The last time we did this it
took 3 weeks to get approval. This one may take longer because we are
requesting that you be able to work both in Hanoi and in Ho Chi
Minh. It might be wise to delay your start date.
Harried, Slightly Anxious Assistant
Manager at the Church Missionary Department: We might need to delay
the Hassells? They have been assigned and called as Welfare/Humanitarian Services missionaries. If they don't do Welfare/Humanitarian training the
last week of May as scheduled then they'd have to wait until the next
one in July. The only way we can allow them not to do Welfare/Humanitarian Training is if we get the senior missionary coordinators in the
Welfare Services Department to sign off on that. And it is my
understanding that they will receive instructions from the
Welfare Department managers on their welfare assignments in Vietnam.
Please see the attachment which explains how welfare department
missionaries work with mission presidents.
Mission President: Dear Brother
Harried Assistant Manager, You can keep them on the regularly
scheduled date. We can find work for them to do in Phnom Pehn while they wait for their visa.
Harried But Now Less Anxious Assistant
Manager at the Church Missionary Department: We"ll keep
them on the schedule. Will they have their passports or are
they currently being held by the Vietnamese government as part of the
visa application?
Church Travel Specialist: I have
their passports. I'll send them to them during their orientation training.
And the saga continues.
Four more days until the first segement
of the journey.
Many thanks to Ngoc Tran, Li Chao Zhao, Kasey Gillespie, Beau Shaw, and Ryan Flake for helping us load
furniture into the UHaul this evening and unload it into a storage
unit in the midst of a solid Oklahoma rainstorm. And to Armi Albers for her amazing cleaning skills. We could never
have done it without you. You were angels. And we treasure our friendship.
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