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Our Visa problems persist. Sadly we receive a handful of new missionaries only to find them reassigned out of Botswana when their 90-day entrance Visa expires. We have sent as many missionaries to Namibia as we dare; if we overwhelm the Namibia Immigration Department with too many Visa requests, they may well spook and revoke the ones we already have. We send more missionaries out of the mission than we receive as attrition takes our older ones home after their 2-year commitment. And so our numbers continue to dwindle and our mission is slowing being phased out. It saddens and discourages us. But we know eventually things will turn around and the immigration officials will figure out how vastly we contribute to this country and to their economy and the welfare of their people, and our numbers will g...