The Field is White-ish
Scriptures comics
Comics that play on verses from the Bible, the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants, and Preach My Gospel.
10 comics
After His Resurrection, Jesus asked Peter three times to “feed my sheep,” meaning care for His people. In Spanish-speaking countries, Jesús is also a common first name. That can get confusing.
In 1 Corinthians 12, Paul compares the Church to a body, where every member matters, from the eye to the foot. Missionaries love that scripture. Sometimes they love it a little too creatively.
Moroni 10:3–5 is the promise near the end of the Book of Mormon that anyone who reads it and sincerely asks God can know it’s true. Missionaries quote it at nearly every door. On Halloween it may not beat a full-size candy bar.
Some people at the door come ready to debate, with Bibles full of colored tabs marking their favorite verses. Missionaries are taught to share and testify, not argue. Here it looks more like a standoff at high noon.
“Bible bashing” is missionary slang for a scripture argument at the door, and missionaries are taught to avoid contention and leave those alone. It is definitely not a party. Some elders take a little longer to learn that.
The scriptures list spiritual gifts like wisdom, knowledge, faith, healing, and tongues (1 Corinthians 12; Doctrine and Covenants 46). Laundry is not on the list.
Preach My Gospel, the guide every missionary studies, has 13 chapters. Missionaries like to joke about an unofficial Chapter 14, nicknamed “Flirt to Convert.” This elder seems ready to put it into practice.
The Book of Mormon describes a repeating “pride cycle”: people prosper, grow proud, fall, and are humbled. Some mission bikes are already at the proud stage.
In Mark 10:14 Jesus says, “Suffer the little children to come unto me.” In the King James Version, “suffer” means “allow.” Teaching a lesson over a toy drum tests that interpretation.
In Doctrine and Covenants 4:4 the Lord tells missionaries “the field is white already to harvest.” These sisters found a field that is very white, very ready, and full of dandelions.