However, I'm not exactly envious. Instead, I'm filled with admiration and actually inspired to keep going. Where I sit, I get to read reports literally from all over the world. Someone had to sweat bullets on Bible college mid-terms, then raise financial support, leave family and friends to go to the field, learn a foreign language, and most of all be determined enough to not quit when the going got tough. Someone had to pray, trust the Lord for supernatural intervention, and follow His guidance.
Someone MADE it happen.
But in the midst of it all, some things aren't so quick. You can't learn to play Sergey's kind of soccer without a few years of daily practice with someone who knows what he's doing. And you can't learn a language overnight, either. But can he ever speak Chinese. Not on your life.