I wanted to share a God Story that has resulted from us getting a new truck.
In November, Ira and I started procedure to get our FM3. This is a 1 year visitor visa opposed to the 6 month one we had that required us to drive to the border for personal renewal and get vehicle registration. The last time we drove the truck there, on the way back it broke down and terrorized us as we were on the side of a mountain in Mexico in the middle of nowhere. God responded to our crys for help and got us home safely. We knew then, we needed to have more reliable transportation in Mexico.
In applying for the visa, we learned Pan de Vida needed to be registered within the immigration to receive foreign volunteers. There are others here from the US but being married to Mexicans, they fall under other immigration registration laws. So during this process, the holidays came and delayed our application. After the governmental New Year we started again. Pan de Vida became registered and our applications were accepted.
Then the lawyer helping us with the paperwork got delayed as her husband was diagnosed with cancer and needed chemotherapy. She assured us that as long as we were in the process, we were ok to remain in Mexico even though all our current documents had expired. Of course we told her to take the time needed to care for her husband.
In the meantime, the funds for the new truck were being raised. We found out in April that all the funds had come in and by then Dimitri (the lawyer's husband) had finished his 1st round of treatments and was feeling better. So the lawyer followed up on our FM3s. It was then we learned that now the government had changed the format of the visa from being a document much like a passport, to now being more like a driver's license. The new format would come into effect May 1st and no new FM3's would be processed until after that date. So the waiting continued.
In the meantime, Dimitri came to visit us all at Pan de Vida and we learned he was originally from Greece and a mechanic. After some discussion, he asked us what we were going to do with the truck and we told him we needed to figure out a way to get it to Texas to a salvage yard. Mexico has very strict rules on foreign vehicles and it is about the only paperwork that they keep accurate stats on. It was then that he showed interest in having it as a project. We told him that if he could legally get it out of our name and into his, that he could have it. He was surprised by this but very grateful. So they did some research on what needed to be done to legalize it and decided to take the truck.
Today, the day we got the new truck, the lawyer came for our last phase of the applications and she told us that we had given them such a gift with our old truck. We really thought they were doing us a favor in keeping us from risking the trip back to Texas, and they felt they were the blessed ones. In Dimitri's time of illness, he now has a project to possibly keep his mind focused so he won't dwell so much on his current situation.
We have explained that it is how God has just worked it all out to the good and in His timing. We all had a good cry as we sat in awe to how it has all come together and God ultimately gets all the glory!! Now we have new friends and they have even invited us to their home for an authentic Greek meal. God is so Good!
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