Mail Drought

Today's strip marks the beginning of a multi-week storyline about missionary post. Something today's missionaries don't deal with. These strips are incredibly dated.

Granted, I never experienced the thrill of turning on my smart phone and finding a bunch of unread emails from home, but I doubt the experience compares to the thrill of opening the mailbox at the end of a long day tracting. There was something magical about the infinite possibilities contained inside an envelope.