Good Missionary Training

The rain held off long enough for today's laundry to dry!

We like to say that frustrating or hard situations are good missionary training. Like getting eaten alive by mosquitoes here in Texas is good training because there will be plenty of bugs in the jungle. Or trying to hang the laundry to dry between all the rainstorms we've been having is also good missionary training. Lately I (Sarah) have experienced some of the harder aspects of training, like the loneliness of being so far from family.   I can see that as training but it is not easy to laugh at like bug bites. I know it will only be worse when we are in a foreign country.

Or after last week participating in some classes on persecution and danger, it seems much closer and more of a reality than it did before. The frustration of not getting to do everything Kelly does is another example. There will be times like that on the mission field.

These things truly are good missionary training. I have been discouraged and wanted to give up and go back to Wisconsin. I have realized that it is important for me to struggle with these things. Not to be filled with fear or to turn back but to count the cost of following God's call to me. It forces me to look at the big picture of eternity. This life is temporary but we will live forever with God along with all who believe and so it is worth suffering to bring the Gospel to those who have never heard.

-Sarah