One of the blessings of living in St. Vincent is realizing many of things I enjoyed in the past can be lived without…in other words many things in the US are luxuries instead of necessities. Of course there is a place for luxuries in a missionary’s life, but honestly on Mission fields they are usually too expensive, so you do without.
For instance during my time in Barrouallie I’ve decided the following luxuries are too expensive to purchase.
Lucky Charms
Dr. Pepper
And Starbucks Coffee
(Editors note-these amounts are in East Caribbean Dollars so in US Dollars it will end up being about half the listed price)
The truth is many of the things taken for granted in the States (just a 15 minute drive to Walmart) are now viewed as luxuries in St. Vincent so I just dont buy them. But there is at least one luxury I cling to tenaciously…my American phone.
Next week some new ministries begin at Tabernacle that I’m very excited about to go along with the beginning of a new school year. I was looking over a flyer that will hopefully go up over the weekend with a veteran missionary when he looked up and asked, “when is your day off?” I explained that Monday was my day off since the only ministry done was Bible Club, discipleship, homework help, and some stories (2 1/2 hours of ministry) but he shook his head. “No that won’t work” he told me, “there needs to be a day you do no ministry.”
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