I read this in my assigned reading this afternoon, and thought it was very encouraging:
"If we are to follow the example of Christ, we must aim at incarnation! Jesus said, 'If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself' (Matt. 16:24). We must be willing to give up our [North] American Christian lifestyle and begin as children, learning at the feet of those we have gone to serve. We must be willing to become world Christians. The challenges will shake us, the changes will trouble us. Our bodies will get sick, our minds will suffer fatigue, our emotion will sweep us from ectasy to depression. Yet the love of Christ will sustain us so that we can identify with Paul, who said, 'I have become all things to all men so that by all possible means I might save some. I do this all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its blessings' (1 Cor. 9:22-23)." -Ministering Cross-Culturally (not sure who the author is)