Mission Work Privileges

It is often said that mission work involves making many sacrifices. From time to time we have received well-meaning comments along those lines as part of expressions of thanks for doing the work of foreign missions. And it could easily be argued that this is true. Missionaries (perhaps especially foreign ones) could no doubt produce a list of things they have had to "give up," so to speak. But to dwell on these things would not be spiritually healthy, nor helpful. Many years ago a fellow saint...