Christi Hicks

Top Ten Things I Learned About Life on My VIA Experience
10 Tarantulas make really big messes when squished 
9 Never walk under coconut trees on a windy day.
8 No matter what time you start an even, no one will show up until thirty minutes later.  If someone tells you it’ll be an hour, they really mean two to three hours.  If someone tells you something will be there in two to three weeks, they mean it’ll be there in six to eight weeks.
7 Missionaries don’t get days off.  It’s a 24-hours-a-day, 7-days-a-week job.
6 “Flying by the seat of your pants” can be a way of life.
5 Your underwear isn’t as private a matter as you think when you line dry your clothes at the frequently visited mission house.  There is NOT a day to do your laundry in private.
4 The best way to get to know the women of the community is to cook with them.  (I learned how to make mass amounts of tortillas while working with the women for a church fund-raiser.)
3 The children are adorable wherever you go.
2 The Lord is the only one you can truly depend on.
1 God is faithful to fulfill His promises to His servants.

Published in WGM's Call to Prayer - November/December 1999 

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