The Field is White-ish
Language comics
Learning a new language on a mission is humbling and funny. Comics about language study, the gift of tongues, and practice partners.
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Senior couples often serve alongside young missionaries and join their district meetings. Even on an English-speaking mission, there can be a generation gap in the language.
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.
Missionaries serve all over the world, often in a language they learned only months before. To a local, two clean-cut young Americans in matching outfits asking lots of questions can look like something other than a church visit.
“Testifico” means “I testify” in Spanish. New missionaries learning the language sometimes lean on their companion's words while their own vocabulary catches up.
Missionaries practice their new language with anyone who will listen. Pets are patient listeners and never point out mistakes.
Missionaries learning a new language pray for the gift of tongues, the spiritual gift of speaking and understanding a language (1 Corinthians 12; Doctrine and Covenants 46). Toddlers seem to have their own interpretation.