The teaching pool

Our local missionaries are doing a great job. They have some excellent people they're working with!
 

Sketchbook: Just the bare bones

Obviously these missionaries have not learned one of the fundamental principles of teaching: The lesson isn't over until they're back inside and you're out of sight. It helps avoid misunderstandings.
 

Lessons learned

Editor's note: I've got a couple of old pirate-themed sketchbook gags that I'm turning in to full cartoons. 

As a missionary, it's great when your investigator actually reads the scriptures. You just hope they're inspired bi the right parts!

Sketchbook: Potatoes

 

Totally worth it. 

Just a few minutes of your time

That's when you hope that you teach by the spirit, not by the missionary!
 

The accident

Ever have those moments when you’re teaching a lesson and suddenly you get that overwhelming feeling that what you’re teaching is true?
 

By the fruits ye shall know them

This would be super fun to try.
 

If you feed them, they will come

A good, long lesson over lunch, dinner, breakfast, second breakfast. Elevenses. Seems like a good idea!
 

Word.

There may be a Paris Olympics influence to this.
 

A voice from above

Oddly enough, this looks a little like our local grocery store.

This sure would have been fun to try as a missionary, though.
 

This little gospel light of mine

They call them spiritual eyes.  

Sketchbook: Unplugged

I was thinking the other day about how many things can go wrong when you teach a lesson. Sometimes a video won’t play, or the scripture reference in your notes has the wrong verses. Fortunately we can always fall back on teaching by the spirit, right? Oh, wait — that should be “rely on.”
 

Easter Week: Jesus Teaches His Disciples

"Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

"For I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me doing; I was a stranger, and ye took me in;

"Naked, and ye clothed me; I was sick, and ye visited me; I was in prison, and ye came unto me.

"Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?

"When was we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?

"And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me."

 

Easter Week: Jesus Teaches

"Master, which is the great commandment in the law? 

"Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 

"And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 

"On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets."

The music of the spoken word

I can't decide if this is about promoting doctrinally questionable teachings or inadvertently using the wrong verb. 

Not the sketchbook: What if?

During an idle moment in ward council, I had the thought: What would it be like if the missionaries were in charge? How would things be different?

This particular gag stemmed from my first thought: Their teaching pool would be a lot bigger!
 

Settle in for a lesson

We used to visit an elderly widow in our ward. She had a magic chair — whenever I sat in it, I immediately fell asleep.

I miss that chair.
 

In the name of transparency

Some folks are more effective at letting you know if they aren't interested.
 

Sketchbook: Going back

I substituted for Sunday school last week. It was my first time teaching in-person for well over a year. I was shocked at how my teaching paradigm had shifted! I kept thinking I should share my screen or put something clever in the chat! And with everyone wearing masks, it was almost as if their microphones were turned off.

 

Easter Week: Teaching His Disciples

"Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

"For I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me doing; I was a stranger, and ye took me in;

"Naked, and ye clothed me; I was sick, and ye visited me; I was in prison, and ye came unto me.

"Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?

"When was we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?

"And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me."