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    Two Heavy Words: Reflections of a First-Year Missionary
    Two Heavy Words: Reflections of a First-Year Missionary
    Two Heavy Words: Reflections of a First-Year Missionary
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    Two Heavy Words: Reflections of a First-Year Missionary

    By M. J. Weissenberger

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    The first year for any missionary is filled with adventure and trials. Assimilating to a new culture requires more than any book can offer. This is the story of a young woman who stepped out of her college years directly into the mission field. She was vastly unprepared in language, experience, and spiritual discipline, but she encountered the Lord in a way she never could while growing up in America. The transition from an American college campus to the sandy streets of a developing country was not easy physically or emotionally. The excitement of adventure soon waned in the face of homesickness and culture shock. Through it all, she found that the practices she had been taught for years in church and student ministry were vital for survival and that there is no hope, no strength, and no joy that can sustain you outside of what is found in Christ.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherResource Publications
    Release dateJan 24, 2014
    ISBN9781630872588
    Two Heavy Words: Reflections of a First-Year Missionary
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    M. J. Weissenberger

    M. J. Weissenberger is a missionary and secondary English teacher. She and her husband are associate missionaries with South America Mission in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. Weissenberger blogs and writes frequently on her personal experiences in missions, Christian faith, and ministry.

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      Two Heavy Words - M. J. Weissenberger

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      Learning his love

      Raising support is hard. It’s not physical work that tires your muscles or breaks a sweat—but it certainly can tear your heart into pieces, especially if your heart does not understand God’s.

      So I had said my two words and put myself on a one-way fast track to teach in Bolivia. I didn’t really know what to do next. It was March and I still had ten weeks left in my student teaching, graduation, and moving out to accomplish. Support raising was put on the back burner and lumped with the notion that if this was God’s desire for me, he would provide my way. Besides, I thought flippantly, doesn’t it say somewhere in the book Matthew that if God cares for the sparrows how much more will he care for me?

      A wonderful lady from my mission had me starting the process of creating a support letter. If you have never set out to write a support letter before, welcome to one of the most frustrating processes of your life. I’m a writer by nature and getting my thoughts on paper is extremely easy, but, asking others for money and getting them excited about a mission is not the same as explicating a passage of Shakespeare. A college essay displays intelligence; a support letter displays humility.

      Though the lady from my mission had emailed and called multiple times, I simply wasn’t motivated. To be honest, I was staring in the face of my $22,000 goal wondering how it would ever come true. I was trying to figure out what magical combination of words would coax the average American to pour their hard-earned cash into my support account despite the economic recession and the fact that I had a teaching degree and could be paid by a school district to do this job in America. I made multiple drafts, all of which sounded like glorified cow dung, and finally settled on something a little less than cliché, but definitely filled with pictures of me and children from previous mission trips for dramatic

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