On 22 May 2006 21:30:40 -0700, "cjcampbell"
wrote:


Ol Shy & Bashful wrote:
Curious to see how many of the people here have passports and who has
visited outside of their home country as a civilian.

Well, I am a missionary in the Philippines now and will not return
until the end of November. Does that count? (I wonder how rusty I am
getting?)

How are you making out? I have some friends who went to the South
Seas on a missionary catamaran outfitted as a dental clinic. At one
port, they treated a man who'd had an abcessed tooth for decades. They
had it out and packed with antibiotics and in two days, the man, who'd
been one mean ******* up until then, turned out to be a perfectly
reasonable human being after all.

It isn't easy to practice virtue when you're in continuous pain. Thre
were lessons there for everyone: guy with the toothache, his
neighbors, missionaries, and assorted skeptics.

Don