The Gong Show

This could come in handy sometimes.

The Last of the Weekly Numbers

Today's strip wraps up the weekly numbers storyline. Maybe next week, this website will feature a missionary strip that isn't haplessly outdated. Hope springs eternal.

Enos at Sacrament Meeting

Poor Enos. This is at least the fourth gag I've done about his propensity to offer long prayers.

More Weekly Numbers

Per our discussion from last week's comic strip, here are outdated missionary materials 683 (landline) and 684 (weekly numbers reported to the district leader) featured in the Mission Daze comic strip.

Mormon's Dating Prospects

There is some debate as to Mormon's age when he took command of the Nephite armies. Do a google search and you'll see some sources claiming he was 15 and others claiming he was 16. For the purpose of today's gag, I'm going with 15.*

If you follow me on social media, you'll notice that I've gone dark. I've got little interest in wading into those pools just now. Maybe in a few weeks when things calm down. Maybe I'll swear it off forever. We'll see.

*For the life of me, I can't figure out why anyone would argue that Mormon was 16. Mormon states right there in the scriptures that, "in my sixteenth year I did go forth at the head of an army of the Nephites" (Mormon 2:2). Nobody claims that Joseph Smith was 15 at the time of the First Vision even though he writes that, "I was at this time in my fifteenth year" (JSH 1:7). When I was a baby, my first year was the period of time before my first birthday, my second year was the time between my first and second birthdays while I was one-year-old, and so on and so on, so my 16th year would be when I was fifteen-years-old.

Weekly Numbers

Who knows if missionaries even do this anymore. District leaders would call the missionaries in their district every Sunday evening to collect the number of investigators, discussions, contacts, etc. from the previous week. Those district leaders would then pass the numbers onto the zone leaders who would pass them on to the APs. I imagine all of this is now done online, making today's strip yet another of my 682 outdated missionary strips featured on this blog.*

*Remarkable that there are 682 outdated strips when I only drew 500 of them (some were so egregious, I had to count them twice).

Halloween Sacrament

Happy Halloween, everyone!