Returning Home – Part II

I knew this would be difficult, but I didn’t know it would start being difficult this early. I never had to think about visas before. When I lived in Mongolia last time, there was a committee of people who handled my visa for me. And I was by myself. When you’re young and alone and an organization is taking care of you and your parents are paying for you, it’s much easier to making things like moving to Mongolia happen. Now, I have seven children. Jobs that I look at there pay around $700 per month. Rent for a two bedroom apartment is around $600 per month. It is difficult for people to make a living wage there. Even if I find a job that I can do, I need to get the job and hopefully have the employer invite me there to secure a visa. That covers my family until Lucy turns 18 in October. Then we have to figure out how to get her her own visa. She could become a student, but she’d have to attend a college. While she’s finishing high school. The other option is to start a business. But, I’d have to have a minimum of $100,000 capital to get that kind of a visa. Then, I’d have to build a successful business. While I’m doing that, I’d have to have another job that pays enough for me to support the family because I can’t pull money out of a fledgling business.
All of these things are problems that we’ve run into in the last few days as we realize what it will take to move to Mongolia. We cannot make this happen if Heavenly Father doesn’t intervene. But he knows of our needs, and he prepares a way for people to accomplish the things with he commands them.