confessions of a returning missionary, part 2

1.) i just spent a week at a church conference where I had to answer where I'm from a lot. i never know which version of the answer I should use. The fact that I grew up in PA? The fact that I then lived and went to school in Texas? The fact that I then (and most recently) lived in Mongolia? The fact that I now live in Omaha? Or all of them combined?

2.) a group of teenagers will never fail to ask about eating animal guts when you are sharing about life as a missionary. it's interesting to me that differences in food and eating are one of the things that people everywhere can understand about cultures different from their own.

3.) if you wear a long, colorful dress the day you give the "i'm a missionary" talk you are only reinforcing the missionary stereotype people have of women in foreign prints walking barefoot down dusty roads. oops.

4.) being a missionary will teach you patience for a lot of things. church legislative meetings are not one of them.

5.) i'm a good traveler. I'm an even better homebody.