Missionary Susan Templet carries the Gospel to isolated villages deep in the Amazon Jungle of Ecuador.  It's not an easy assignment, and on numerous levels, it can be dangerous.  But when you listen to today's Footsteps, you'll hear the passion that Susan has for reaching these people who still "carry spears and machetes."  Is she making a sacrifice?  Well, I would say that Susan probably feels the way missionary David Livingstone felt about his work in Africa in the mid 1800s: 

"For my own part, I have never ceased to rejoice that God has appointed me to such an office.  People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa.  Is that a sacrifice which brings its own blest reward in healthful activity, the consciousness of doing good, peace of mind, and a bright hope of a glorious destiny hereafter?  Away with the word sacrifice.  Say rather it is a privilege.  Anxiety, sickness, suffering, or danger, now and then, with a foregoing of the common conveniences and charities of this life, may make us pause, and cause the spirit to waver, and the soul to sink; but let this only be for a moment.  All these are nothing when compared with the glory which shall be revealed in and for us.  I never made a sacrifice."(1)

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1. David Livingstone, as quoted on Grace Quotes, accessed January 14, 2019, https://gracequotes.org/author-quote/david-livingstone/.