• It’s living in a 400-square-foot, bamboo house with one bedroom, with two to three people in a bed, with parents and children next to one another, and perhaps a leaky roof.
• It’s having a throbbing tooth ache and waiting for the missionary dentists to show up next year.
• It’s sleeping on a bed with flies crawling all over you.
• It’s having mosquitoes feast on your children at night because you do not have enough money to buy an $8 mosquito net.
• It’s traveling to and from your farm on a two-wheel cart pulled by a donkey.
• It’s planting crops by hand in 85 to 90 degree heat.
• But, it is also seeing churches with standing room only on weekends.
• It is seeing 40 people at benediction each evening.
• It is seeing people walk past the church and make the sign of the cross.
• It is people who love you even if you are a tall, white Anglo.
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Lee,
Through tears - I say thank you for again finding a way for us to 'see' what you are seeing. May God continue to bless you and keep you strong and healthy on this journey.
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