OBSERVATION - START OVER:
Learn from the local customs.

SOMEONE ASKED A RETIRED MISSIONARY . . .

 "If you had a chance to go back to Vietnam and start all over, what would you do?" 

I would go back and try to attract to myself a group of disciples and spend all of my time with them. This is the pattern in the Vietnam culture.

Kraft, Lecture XIII,  Anthropology and Mission I, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena CA.