Missionary Laundry

Oh boy, here we go...

Back to School

I figure I'd better get this back to school gag published before school gets shut down...

Hey, remember a couple of weeks ago when I told you about Ceder Fort Publishing's Come, Follow Me podcast? You know, the one they inexplicitly let me guest host? Well I hosted another episode. This time I covered the chapters on Samuel the Lamanite. Check it out here (it's episode 13).

White Shirts

Poor Elder Ryan. His mission president really is asking a lot of him, isn't he?

Online Upon Online

This is likely going to be a brutal fall. There are stories throughout the United States of COVID outbreaks striking schools and universities that have recently reopened. Despite that, most of the country is set in the coming weeks to once again open school doors. If I were a betting man, I'd wager that we'll be stuck doing online schooling just like we did in April and May by Halloween. I don't know about you, but I find that deeply depressing.

So with all my doom and gloom, let's be inspired by the words of a prophet. Here's Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin comparing our struggles with the despair that surely faced Christ's disciples immediately following His crucifixion:

Each of us will have our own Fridays—those days when the universe itself seems shattered and the shards of our world lie littered about us in pieces. We all will experience those broken times when it seems we can never be put together again. We will all have our Fridays.

But I testify to you in the name of the One who conquered death—Sunday will come. In the darkness of our sorrow, Sunday will come.

No matter our desperation, no matter our grief, Sunday will come. In this life or the next, Sunday will come.

 This isn't over, but someday it will be. Hang in there.

Lingo

This comic is so old, I doubt the missionaries today have any idea what these words mean either.

Pride Cycle

Speaking of the pride cycle, the book of Helaman in the Book of Mormon is full of examples of a people getting spun through the pride cycle. Incidentally, Helaman 1-6 is the course of study next week for Come, Follow Me.

The good folks at Cedar Fort Publishing (the publishers of such fine work as the Scripture Power Activity Book) have began a podcast were various numbers of their authors take a deep dive into each week's Come, Follow Me lesson. It just so happens that I was asked to offer commentary on Helaman 1-6. You can find the thoughts of scripturians, seminary teachers, and historians all over the internet on these chapters, but this might be the only place online you'll get a cartoonist's insight! Check it out here (I'm episode 11).

Snow Boarding

My Mission Daze comic strip is a hodgepodge of made up story lines and those based on actual experiences I had as a missionary. Today's strip is the latter.

Back to School Shopping

This year maybe we should do our back to school shopping at the army surplus store.

Long Lost Care Package

If Elder Ryan is not eating that fudge, I doubt anyone will.