¡Hola a Todos! (Hello All!)
What a week! All last weekend, we were researching like
crazy, trying to figure out how to get all the documentation we needed to
travel to Peru. On Monday morning we drove to the Department of Public Safety
in Taylorsville where we were able to get our Criminal History Reports. Then,
in the afternoon, we drove into Salt Lake City to have our electronic
fingerprints taken for our FBI Background Check. There are only 2 post offices
that provide this service in our area, and on Saturday, Lane had driven over to
the post office in West Jordan (the other post office that does electronic
fingerprinting) to ask about how this works. (It would have been fantastic if
we could have gotten the information over the phone, but no one answers the
phone at the post office … and we called multiple times!) Unfortunately, the
people staffing the post office gave him no confidence whatsoever. The two
people at the desk said, “Well, yes, technically we take electronic
fingerprints, but neither of us have ever really got the machine to work.”
WHAT??!
So … we drove into the Salt Lake City location figuring that
it couldn’t be worse. And it wasn’t…yay! The woman at the counter was very
helpful and seemed to know what she was doing. It took a little time as the
machine was very sensitive and glitchy but Lane was able to get good prints
pretty quickly. I, on the other hand, was a different story. We were never able
to get a good print of all my fingers. After multiple attempts and restarting
the machine, the clerk said that sometimes the FBI accept hand prints without a
clear print of all the fingers and sometimes they don’t. AACK! We left the post
office not knowing if we’d have to try again. Luckily (or miraculously!) they
were accepted!
On Tuesday, we drove back into Salt Lake City where we had
our Criminal History Reports Apostilled at the Lieutenant Governor’s office. We
didn’t dare have our papers mailed back to us (and possibly get lost in the
mail!), so we paid the expedited fee and got them back within 10 minutes. Our
paperwork is now complete!
I (LeAnn) made three visits to the dentist this week and my
dental work is now complete!
We are all set (hopefully) to fly out on Wednesday!
While we were scrambling and jumping through hoops this
week, the phrase, “all things shall work together for your good” kept running
through my head.
“Search diligently, pray always, and be believing, and all
things shall work together for your good, if ye walk uprightly and remember the
covenant wherewith ye have covenanted one with another.” (D&C 90:24)
¡Que tengan una semana
súper fantástica! (Have a super fantastic week!)
Love,
Lane & LeAnn
