"Auntie, when you come back, you will be big! All the missionaries get fat when they leave and come back."
The bluntness of our country's culture is sometimes brutal. Sigh...
In this case, it was the brutal truth.
On furlough, missionaries spend enormous amounts of time sitting in pews, sitting in cars while traveling, and eating fast food on the go. Temptations are at every corner. Foods we cannot get on the field call to us with sugary, glaze-laden voices.
Sorry, dear missionary woman. The bathroom scale isn't lying. You are well on your way to packing on the Furlough Twenty... or Thirty. (Who knew you could gain that much weight in a few months?!)
