This past weekend, outgoing missionaries and several returned missionaries gathered at Camp Touchet for a few quiet hours together. The returned SMs had suggestions about what to do, suggestions about what not to do, and expressed several regrets they realized after returning. Outgoers had the chance to talk to people who undertook similar tasks whether it was teaching, medical, orphanage, construction or any other sort of work. Also got the chance to talk to those who had been in similar parts of the world.
Pat Gustin, a former missionary of nearly 20 years, informed us that wherever we may be going, that place is not 4 things. It's not home, it's not a haven, it's not heaven, and it's not hell. I can agree that it won't be home, at least not for a long time. It may or may not be a haven. I suppose it depends upon what you are trying to escape. Heaven? Uh...yeah. Why would you be a missionary to heaven? Seems a little ridiculous, right? Finally, it's not hell although it may feel like it. I should hope thoughts such as "what am I doing here" remain somewhere other than in my head. Time will answer.
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