Running around Nashville, TN

So yesterday we called the Bolivian Consulate in Washington DC to make sure that we did not have to send any other paperwork other then the letter from the Bolivian Branch. Well come to find out as of July 17th, 2010 there was a new policy put into place for ones wanting to get a special purpose visa. This was the first time we had heard of this. Well what they needed was a letter from our local Kingdom Hall stating that it was a part of the Watchtower and Tract Society, in both Spanish and English. Then we had to have another letter stating that Justin and I were both Jehovah's Witnesses, in Spanish and in English. So this consisted of 8 letters. Well we have to have them notarized. So this morning at 8 am we met up with the secretary of our Kingdom Hall at the local UPS and had them notarized. Then we drove to Nashville, to the Secretary of State's office. When we arrived we talked to the lady in charge and found out that we had drove 3 hours and had needed to get a certification in our county before we came there. I started to cry. I was so stressed and was holding it in that I just broke. I hate crying in front of people it embarrasses me. Well then she said that we could go to their local County office and get the papers notarized.
So off we were to go to the local County office. Well when we got there the lady told us we needed to go find a gentleman and ask him to notarize our papers. We went to the front desk and was directed directly to him. After explaining our situation he asked where was the person who signed the papers, we told him he was back in Knoxville. After reading our paperwork he took the 8 papers to his desk and began stamping and signing them. I pulled out my checkbook to pay him and he told us that we were doing such a great thing that he couldn't take our money and that we had payed that morning so he would feel bad taking our money twice. It was so awesome. We were really relieved.
Then we went back to the lady we had spoke with earlier. She attached a paper to each of the documents and signed them. Then she directed us back to the State Secretary's Office to get the rest of the Authentication done. So off we went again back to the State Secretary's Office. We caught the lady we had spoke with earlier and she said that she could now authenticate it. So after about 10 minutes we had 8 authenticated papers from the State in our hands. We were so relieved. We went for a late lunch and headed home.
Well that is it for today, but in about a week we have to drive to Washington DC after we go to Ohio and have these papers Authenticated by the US State Secretary. Then take theses papers and the letter from the branch (which we have not received yet) back to the Bolivian Consulate in DC. We are going to do all this in person to make sure it gets done. Hopefully then we can get our 30 special purpose visa to be allowed into the country. Without that visa we can not apply for residency. I do not even want to think about the paperwork involved in getting that. :/