Joshua's Gig

Singing at the Door

I've heard tell of the practice of singing at doors while tracting from a number of missionaries. Fortunately for the people of Slovenia, I never engaged in it.

(Here's today's deseretnews.com strip.)

Dinners for the Ward

Personally, I love it when my wife signs up to bring dinner to some distressed soul in our ward because she has the foresight to make enough of whatever it is she's making to feed us too. And it's always birthday worthy.

More Sisterly Love

(This week's deseretnews.com strip.)

Tools of Chore

I really like today's comic which happens to be featured in the January issue of the New Era. I think it's rather clever.

(Of course, it's very unlikely that "weapons of war" and "tools of chore" rhyme at all in the language of the Anti-Nephi-Lehies--pretty much invalidating the joke all together.)

Sisterly Love

Let's check in on Elder Van Dyke's family again.

(And check out another strip here.)

Pitfalls of Procrastination

Once when I was asked to participate in Sacrament Meeting as a youth speaker, my brother and I came up with an ingenious idea for a 3 to 5 minute talk. I stood up and announced that the theme of my talk would be trusting in the spirit. I then declared that to demonstrate my trust in the spirit I hadn't prepare anything for the talk and was now going to trust in the spirit to direct me to say something profound.

What followed was awkward silence as I stood at the pulpit waiting for my inspiration to come. I would frantically leaf through my scriptures, turn to the microphone like I had something to say and then quickly turn away, and generally act like I was in a panic. Finally, after a couple of minutes of this, I starting into my prepared talk (which was more a message than anything) on how in order to expect the spirit in our lives, we need to do some work to warrant it.

The talk/performance was a disaster. It was clear that nobody in the congregation knew what to make of my antics. Sacrament Meeting, it seems, is no place for performance art. But all was not lost, the experience did indirectly lead to today's gag some 25 years later.

Hairy Dinner Appointments

Sometimes it's best not to look too closely at what you're eating, Elder.

(Here's this week's strip featured at deseretnews.com.)

Maybe Job Didn't Have It So Bad After All

I guess the Old Testament's Job could have had it worse, he could have been a teenage girl (or the parent of one).