Affairs for his signature, back to the foreign office.
 Then, some glad day, a clerk in the foreign office will
 tell me that I can send a cable to the Haitian consulate
 in Miami informing them that the residence visa has
 been granted. (A slight pause for singing the Dox-
 ology!) We will send a cable at the same time to
 the Alstotts in Joliet, Illinois, telling them the good
 news so that they can start on their way to Haiti at
 last after such a long wait.
 Having co-workers come to join us is something
 like getting married on a "blind date." We are not
 worried about our liking the Alstotts-we like their
 looks from the picture they sent us, and we almost
 feel like old friends from the dozens of letters we
 have already sent back and forth. But sometimes
 we wonder how they are going to get adjusted to
 us! After all, we've been out here in a foreign coun-
 try long enough to start getting queer and all that,
 at least different from the way we were when we
 first came.
 It will be wonderful to have another couple to
 share the problems of the field with us, to work to-
 gether, to pray together, to see the dream which the
 Lord has given us turning into concrete reality.

November 19-We just got the visa for the Alstotts and
 sent them a cable. Praise the Lord! Monday night
 we felt a special burden of prayer for the head of
 the immigration office. We prayed that the Lord
 would give us a chance to witness to him while we
 were seeing him so often trying to get the visa. The
 next day (yesterday) we had decided to start "sitting-
 it-out" until we got the visa. Toward noon, the Lord
 gave us a wonderful opportunity to witness for Him
 and give a word of personal testimony to the office
 head. He was receptive to a degree and I could sense
 the fact that the Holy Spirit was convicting him of
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