Raising the bar would have excluded me

Over at Times and Seasons Russell Arben Fox gave an interesting perspective on his slowly changing perception of Missionary work.  In reply over at Trash Calls one of the commentators brought up the idea that they hated to hear how people struggled or hated their missions.

I have a slightly different view of life in the mission field.  I saw a lot of what went on in my mission as a self development which I could not have done without, but at the same time I did see a fair amount of change in some of the people I dealt with over the two years.