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About Dendo: One Year And One Half In Tokyo
Product Description "Dendo" is the Japanese word for "missionary work." This daily journal of an LDS sister missionary in Tokyo, Japan, was kept entirely in comic pages. Sister Long spent 18 months teaching and serving among some of the most amazing people in the world, but it wasn't always easy. Read the story of her service teaching English, helping people follow Jesus Christ, and making some of the best friends of her life. Review "A wonderful blending of the modernmissionary narrative mixed with a traditional comic style, humor, andfeel-good moments throughout, Dendo by Brittany Long Olsen is thefirst-of-its-kind autobiographical Mormon missionary graphic novel.Visually engaging, Olsen brings to life her missionary service withsimple and elegant illustration in a unique and transcendent experience. We witness her journey from the ups and downs of the MTC, struggleswith companionships, and burgeoning bike skills to the inevitabledenouement of her time as a sister missionary; all while helping uslearn a little Japanese culture along the way." - Association for Mormon Letters Winner of the 2015 Association for Mormon Letters Award - Comics "...One of the most unique, humorous and genuinely insightful glimpses out thereinto what it means to be a full-time missionary for The Church of JesusChrist of Latter-day Saints...Panel by panel, page by page, each little vignettebuilds on top of the last to show the daily trials and triumphs thatcome with being a missionary assigned to a country where they usebackward syntax, eat mayonnaise on spaghetti and are predominantly notChristian. That includes all the unfun bits, too, because life in the mission field isn't always sunshine and baptisms. That said, Olsen manages to keep things light. Heroptimism, self-deprecating wit and ability to always find the spiritualsilver lining are just a few reasons this book is a joy to read." - Jeff Peterson, Deseret News About the Author Brittany Long Olsen is a cartoonist and illustrator. In 2008, she decided to start making autobiographical comics every day as her own way of journal-keeping, and she hasn't missed a day since. Her daily journal comics can be found at comicdiaries.com where she posts cartoons about adventures with her husband and their dog named Jetpack.
