Cultural Shocks
In many countries, you don't ring a doorbell to see if someone is home; instead, you stand outside their gate and do this loud action.
What is clapping your hands?
Sé que Dios escucha nuestras oraciones
What is "I know that God hears our prayers"?
To tell someone that you are originally from Utah or California, you must use this specific preposition right after Ser.
What is de?
(e.g. Soy de...)
This language milestone happened recently when this specific tongue officially surpassed English to become the number one most common native language spoken by members worldwide.
What is Spanish?
This is the exact number of dots on a single standard six-sided die.
What is 21?
This is the specific day of the week when new General Conference talks are traditionally uploaded to the Gospel Library app.
What is Tuesday?
Le gustaría ofrecer la última oración?
What is would you like to offer the last prayer?
Use this specific plural form of Ser to tell an investigator, "We are disciples of Jesus Christ."
What is somos?
In an alternate universe where animals could serve missions, this slow-moving creature would take exactly 45 years just to tract a single block.
What is a sloth?
This is the average number of hours a full-time missionary spends actively teaching, tracting, and serving every single week—surpassing the hours of a standard corporate full-time job.
What is 60 to 70 hours?
This is the name of the tiny, heavily crowded public transit buses used in places like Central and South America, often decorated with wild lights.
What is a chicken bus?
Dios tiene un plan de felicidad para usted y su familia
What is God has a plan of happiness for you and your family?
This is the exact form of Estar used when addressing a group of investigators to ask, "Are you ready to pray?"
What is están?
While human hearts are in our chests, this underwater crustacean carries its entire heart inside its head.
What is a shrimp?
This is the legendary milestone event where an Elder takes a pair of scissors and completely slices his favorite tie in half to celebrate hitting a specific landmark in his mission.
What is the 6-month mark?
This is the legendary nickname for a missionary who is in their very first transfer in the mission field.
What is a greenie?
Debemos arrepentirnos y guardar los mandamientos
What is 'we must repent and keep the commandments?
This is the correct form of Estar to use when you want to tell your companion, "I am very tired today."
What is Estoy?
This is the surprising, record-breaking average number of miles a typical walking missionary treads on foot during a standard 2-year mission.
(Closest to the answer gets the points)
What is over 3,000 miles?
This is the approximate number of individual copies of the Book of Mormon that an average, high-activity companionship distributes to people over the course of a single year.
(Closest to the answer gets the points)
What is over 200 copies?
In many missions, you have to pour your soda out of its original glass bottle and drink it out of this clear, plastic household item instead.
What is a plastic bag? (with a straw)
Mírame en cada pensamiento; no dudes, no temas.
What is 'Look unto me in every thought; doubt not, fear not?
Fill in the blanks: "Nuestros compañeros ____ cansados porque sus áreas ____ muy grandes" (Our companions are tired because their areas are very large).
What are estan y son?
While most people know the Book of Mormon is translated into over 110 languages, this is the total number of languages that the church's official website is published in, making it one of the most translated websites on Earth.
(Closest to the answer gets the points)
What is 188 languages?
Statistics show that the average language-learning missionary takes exactly this many months in the field before they can comfortably understand jokes told by native speakers.
What is six months?
(If you tell me a joke and I laugh, you get double points)