I talked with Barbie just before she was headed out for the Snake village on Monday morning Vietnam time. She was doing ok. She told me that the church that she went to was very interesting. She told me that people without Vietnamese passports were welcome to attend. I asked her how Julia got in (as she indeed has a Vietnamese passport). She said that people w/o Vietnamese and their families were welcome.
She said that the church met in a hotel meeting room, but was trying to get a building permit to construct a church building. There were people from all over the world there, Asia, Europe, the US, Australia, etc. She said the pastor was european, maybe from Germany or the Netherlands. The service was all in English and Barbie said that they had a Christmas Eve service that it would have been nice to attend had we know about the existence of the church.
Hmmm...other news...I guess that Barbie found a laundry service that has very reasonable prices (thanks for the tip, Marla).
This Wednesday a family that Barbie (and the rest of us while we were there) is leaving for home. I think she will miss having them around. They have a 6 year old boy and just adopted a 2 1/2 year old girl. They live in Minnesota, so hopefully we will get a chance to connect with them back here.
We are hoping that by the end of this week that Barbie gets word of Julia's visa pre-approval. If that happens, then the Visa should be obtained sometime the week of the 14th. We don't know if this will happen or not, but that's our current hope.
Well, keep up the good work of letting Barbie know that you're thinking about her.
Take care,
Doug
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