Patience

Fruit of the Spirit is Patience or the Fruit of Romania is Patience? Not sure which one God really meant in that Galatians 5 passage!
FCE's social worker was supposed to go and check up on my residency situation last week. She didn't go so sent another FCE worker to check up on it. He was so sick that when he got to the appropriate building he was only able to finish half of his to-do list before coming home. My residency issues were on the other half of that list. So, I called the social worker today and said "Listen, I really need to have this resolved soon. Because, if I don't, then I will have to apply for a new Visa and spend 100 Euro on that. If I find out, after getting the new Visa, that I in fact was granted residency then I will have wasted 100 Euro. I don't have 100 Euro to waste!"
She tells me that she is planning on going to Oradea to check up on it either tomorrow or Wednesday. That is, unless if she decides to be hospitalized for a serious sinus infection which, is what the doctor recommended her to do this morning. They do this type of procedure on her nose while she is there - it's really awful. Not so sure how current that procedure is actually but that's another story. Anyway, so we finally decided that if she doesn't go to Oradea tomorrow (opting for the hospital) that she will leave the documents on the desk and I can go this week on my own to figure it out.
Ay yai yai....the patience required is out of control sometimes!
It's not her fault she's sick, not the fault of the guy last week being sick...it's just that I have now been waiting 8 1/2 months to hear if I got residency or not. My letters are not being responded to and they are 2 months overdue on this whole deal anyway.
(aaaarrrghghghg!!)

I was so bummed, yesterday in church the worship leader announced that a worship conference was being held in Timisoara (a large city about 3-4 hrs. south of Oradea) this Tuesday through Thursday. I can't go. This is the week that I promised to watch my friend's son so that she could go to Sweden for a week. I'm not upset about watching him - Caleb and I love having him here - it's just frustrating that these 2 weeks had to collide. I asked the worship leader why he didn't announce it sooner and he said he had only just found out about it on Saturday himself. Somehow e-mails got lost and so it was last minute for him as well. It's been so long since I've been able to go to a worship conference - and this would be one for worship stuff in this country - so awesome! But, God knew that these weeks would collide long ago so I trust Him that there's a good reason why He doesn't want me at that conference!