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This frog was sitting at about eye level on our door for a good 4 days.\u00a0 Maybe it\u2019s used to South African time, laid back and letting go.\u00a0 Running late?\u00a0 No worries.\u00a0 People expecting things of you?\u00a0 No worries.\u00a0 You said you\u2019d be there 7 days ago and you haven\u2019t shown up yet?\u00a0 No worries.\u00a0 Reminds me of our experience getting visa extensions, we had to just relax and not worry about timing.\u00a0 After having applied for them in December, we got notice to pick them up the end of January, actually the time lapsed was not bad considering Christmas and New Year were in there.\u00a0 We drove to Durban, a 2+ hour drive, to pick up our visas, waiting in a line that took us about an hour to get to the counter only to find out that Roy\u2019s had the wrong dates entered on it. \u00a0We then had to reapply for his visa, filling out the proper \u201crectification\u201d form, waiting again in an hour\u2019s worth of lines (which was much shorter than usual because the agents kindly bumped us up), waiting again for it to be processed through the Johannesburg and Pretoria offices, and again driving to Durban to pick it up.\u00a0 It isn\u2019t yet correct, but at least the dates given now are beyond what we applied for, rather than a month and a half earlier!\u00a0 I had a similar test of patience as I opened up a bank account this week. After a morning of 2 police office visits with a getting lost with google maps telling me I had arrived! in between, then a visit to our farm owner\u2019s office to get his signature on the proper paper, NOT the one from the police, I then had the waiting game again.\u00a0 Ah.\u00a0 I know, I have been in horrific lines in the states too (DMV!!), and there have been red tape demands there as well, but it seems to me like Africa wins the prize for forms and office bureaucracy.\u00a0 At least a line is usually a line in South Africa, as opposed to the typical mob pressing forward that we find in Central Africa.\u00a0 Though we have had some crazy experiences with lines here as well.\u00a0 I suppose some of you were praying for patience for us?\u00a0 I actually wasn\u2019t stressed too much during these things, especially because so many of the agents helping us were kind and helpful. May God grant us peace and kind attitudes as we continue to learn to just take things in stride.<\/p>\n

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This frog was sitting at about eye level on our door for a good 4 days.\u00a0 Maybe it\u2019s used to South African time, laid back and letting go.\u00a0 Running late?\u00a0 No worries.\u00a0 People expecting things of you?\u00a0 No worries.\u00a0 You … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever"],"yoast_head":"\nPatience? - Danforths' Days<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/2019\/03\/02\/patience\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Patience? 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