Bugs!

Trials patiently borne, blessings gratefully received, temptations manfully resisted, meekness, kindness, mercy, and love habitually revealed, are the lights that shine forth in the character in contrast with the darkness of the selfish heart, into which the light of life has never shone. - Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing, pg.44
“Ahhhhhhh!!!!” my mom screamed; I whizzed around just in time to see a green cockroach dart its way out of the pasta we were planning to have for lunch. We were new missionaries, and still weren’t quite used to finding arthropods everywhere—in everything.
“Should we still eat it?” mom asked, all googly-eyed. I tentatively nodded yes because we didn’t have the resources to just throw it away. We put the idea of ingesting the grimy trail of a slop covered cockroach out of our minds and ate the pasta anyway.
We couldn’t seem to escape these bugs. Weevils, flies, and other vile insects seemed to bombard much of the food we ate.
Before I was sent to another land, I never would have eaten the detestable things I ate in Bolivia. Seeing the extent of the poverty the Bolivian people endured taught me to be thankful for the food that was put in front of me—bugs and all. And through that experience, God enabled my selfish heart to change into a grateful heart.