You Know You're a Missionary If...

[John of Japan]

You know you are a missionary when meters and liters are normal, and you get confused with feet and pounds.

 

[John of Japan]

You know you're a missionary if a visiting pastor from the homeland mentions a famous actor and you say, "Who??"

 

[John of Japan]

If you and your family use words from two languages when you talk to each other.

(This is called code switching in linguistics.)

 

[John of Japan]

If your pizza has octopus on it.

 

[NaasPreacher (C4K)]

If you start VBS on July 4th

 

[John of Japan]

If you start VBS on July 4th

You didn't, did you?

You know you're a missionary if you don't even realize it's July 4th!

 

[NaasPreacher (C4K)]

You didn't, did you?

You know you're a missionary if you don't even realize it's July 4th!

We did

 

[John of Japan]

You know you're a missionary when you celebrate "Thanks for Work Day" instead of Thanksgiving.

 

[John of Japan]

You know you're a missionary to Asia when little eyes watch you everywhere you go.

Last night we ate at a food court with our co-workers, and a little girl about 7 kept walking by us, looking and wondering. Finally she got up the courage to ask, "What kind of words are you talking?"

 

[John of Japan]

You know you're a missionary when you see a T-shirt on a little boy that says in English, "Historic Monster." And many others far stranger every day!

 

[John of Japan]

When you have a cafe in town with the English name "Hurl."

 

[John of Japan]

When your town has a popular chain of beauty parlors with the name in English, "Seed Hair."

 

[Wherever You Go]

My wife, who grew up on the mission field, says:

You might be a missionary if people ask you where you're from and you can't figure out how best to answer the question!

 

[Wherever You Go]

You might be a missionary if you are going home on both legs of your round trip ticket.

 

[Wherever You Go]

You might be a missionary if they don't seem to have enough kinds of cheese in America.

 

[Wherever You Go]

Then again, you might be a missionary if your kids can quote scripture verses, and also can quote the speech the stewardess gives before takeoff.

 

[Wherever You Go]

And this can happen too. . . YMBAMI you're on furlough and your kids forget that all the people in the supermarket can understand them when they speak English to each other.:tonofbricks:

 

[John of Japan]

Thanks! These are all great.

The cheese one is the opposite for us. Japan has few cheeses, and they are always expensive.

On the other hand, there are few varieties of seaweed in the US! :smilewinkgrin:

 

[Wherever You Go]

Yes, wherever you go, it's hard to find that food you really want. My wife tells of trying to find peanut butter in France. And you think-- Really? Peanut butter? How could they not have peanut butter? They have it more now than they used to, I guess.

Missionary kids from Australia coming back to the US and pining away because there isn't any Vegemite. . . . .

 

[John of Japan]

Yes, wherever you go, it's hard to find that food you really want. My wife tells of trying to find peanut butter in France. And you think-- Really? Peanut butter? How could they not have peanut butter? They have it more now than they used to, I guess.

You know you're a missionary if you serve God in a country that doesn't have root beer! (As far as I know it's only in the US.)

Missionary kids from Australia coming back to the US and pining away because there isn't any Vegemite. . . . .

Ugh! I tried that stuff. Truly an acquired taste.