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Praise for Sojourn Days: "Sojourn is an important book because of its raw honesty about the missionary experience. Most missionary books paper over the hard stuff, but Sojourn hits it straight on. Some readers may be shocked, but sending churches, mission agencies, and young people thinking about missions need to read Sojourn and learn from its message." - Dan Ellrick, missionary in Japan of 20 years. Fresh out of college and full of enthusiasm, Joseph went to rural Japan to serve as a missionary. But unexpected challenges quickly taught him what that life is really like. This book mixes humorous stories of a foreign culture with answers to practical and deeply personal questions. How do we position our hearts when we face trials and depression? What does effective, biblical missionary service look like? How do we handle our longings for places and circumstances we've left behind? Part autobiography and part contemplative reflection, this is the story of one individual's journey with God to a faraway land-and an equally strange journey back.