This is an eye-opening story of a woman who decided to become a missionary at a young age and the reality that she faced when she became one. The descriptions of the places she has to travel through, the way she travels and her shelter for the year are so detailed that I felt as if I were there with her, going through the mud and suffering from the humidity and heat. I really enjoyed the details that the author included, especially since I had the unique experience of having Phil Saint, Nate Saints’ brother, speak at a school that I attended to study the Bible. Since Nate and Elizabeth, the author of this book, later got married, it made me more interested in Elizabeth’s tale of her adventures as a missionary. Phil’s description of what Nate went through paralleled the tale that Elizabeth shares. Phil painted pictures for us; Elizabeth paints with words and the result is breathtakingly realistic. If you have thought about becoming a missionary, this book needs to be required reading. If you want to know how to pray for missionaries, this book must be on your list of books to read. It filled my heart with empathy for the people to whom Elizabeth was ministering as well as for Elizabeth herself. She had a heart for the natives and was dedicated to her assigned task of translating, but she became more than a translator, as those who read this action-packed and descriptive book will find out.

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