We had our BIG phone call tonight. About two hours. Lots of digits, data and forms racing through my thoughts now.
Tonight we heard over and over and over:
"Yeah? Okay." (no pause for our affirmative repsonse, just on to the next thing)
"So what does that mean? Okay. Well..."
They just didn't fit in the conversation how I would use them. Just a little difference I'll have to get accustomed to.
I really liked our relocation lady, May. She asked if we knew anyone there already. We mentioned our friends the MacArthurs and Nielsons who were/are in Singapore. Right off she asked if we go to their church and then confessed she didn't go to our church, but did go to school at BYU and knows all about our church.
Later in the conversation she mentioned we had to get a copy of a certain form to show we actually sold our vehicles when we left just in case the auditor pulled our file because he was in the mood to check one with a last name ending in "Z" on that particular day. Then Mr. Auditor would ask her how she knew we actually sold the car and without missing a beat she said, "I will just tell him because I know they go to that LDS church and people that go to their church are very good. They have very high values and never cheat and are always honest about every single thing always. So they don't even need that paper. You can trust them." I could hear the smile on the other end of the line. What a sweet, high honor to give us. She was fun and I'll be glad to meet her when we arrive.
Oh yeah - we still have no move date, but we can now buy the plane tickets and pay the fees to apply for the kids school. Soon people. Very soon we'll know when we go. Just not tonight.
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We got the same response moving to Australia, when they did our "medical interview" (psych eval). They were giving us all sorts of information about making friends and finding support systems to keep us from turning into alcoholics (which is a problem they have with people going international) and then they asked if we went to church. We said we're LDS, and they said "you'll do great." and ended the interview. It's true.
Similar experience when I first interviewed to work for the government. Background investigator called me (I was in California, he was in Utah) and quickly established that we were both active LDS members, and he said, "Well, there's two pages of questions I don't have to ask." Nice!
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