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Verb Conjugations

#64 · November 3, 2026

A missionary comic about language.

Missionary comic: In an MTC classroom, a sweating elder at the whiteboard has conjugated every form of “hablar” wrong, each one crossed out and corrected in red, while his arms-crossed teacher watches and two classmates whisper. Caption: “The spirit is willing, but the verb conjugations are weak.”
“The spirit is willing, but the verb conjugations are weak.”

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Jesus told His sleepy disciples in Gethsemane, “The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” At the MTC, new missionaries studying a language find a new weakness every day.

In this panel: In an MTC classroom, a sweating elder at the whiteboard has conjugated every form of “hablar” wrong, each one crossed out and corrected in red, while his arms-crossed teacher watches and two classmates whisper.

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