Actually, the message, that you should do good because that is what God wants, is just the elders trying to frighten their followers to make them behave. My mother would say “..because I said so!”, but that does not quite carry the same weight as it would if it came from a mysterious supreme being.
The women on the couch are speaking about their respective roommates… Dez having to put up with Stef’s moaning and sobbing, and Betz having to put up with Tiff’s ranting. I was confused, too, until one of the comments here, and another look at the strip, made it all clear.
But she is an ideal procrastinator… time moves ever so slowly.