Flooding the Earth with the Book of Mormon: Moment #509. Donation to Library book sale. Tue, Jan 17, 2006.

Flooding the Earth with the Book of Mormon

(One drop at a time.) My journal entries about offering copies of the Book of Mormon, the Bible, and other LDS church books, mainly to immigrants in their native language, mainly in Indianapolis, Indiana. With 106 translations, the Book of Mormon (along with the Bible) is a good "Rosetta Stone" for learning English or other languages, in addition to being a missionary tool.

My goals in keeping this blog/journal are: to encourage others to offer people copies of the Book of Mormon and the Bible, to illustrate the incredible number of recent immigrants who are eager for bilingual material, to illustrate the ease of encountering them and offering them material, and to make known the wonderful deeds of the Lord (Ps 105:1, Isa 12:4) in arranging many of these encounters. I realize that the concept of offering foreign language books to strangers is just plain weird to many people, so here are some hints if you are intrigued by this and wish to try it. Respectful comments and constructive criticism are invited.

The goal of the book placement effort is to provide, in a friendly non-threatening way, gospel material to someone who is willing to receive it in their native language and English.

To the recipients of these books who read this: I thank you again for allowing me to be of service to you. I encourage you to read the material, and pray to God that He confirm the truth of it to you. The Bible and the Book of Mormon are both the Word of God. Living according to their teachings brings happiness.

Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Moment #509. Donation to Library book sale. Tue, Jan 17, 2006.

01/17/2006. Today I mailed out a package containing some books to a libary in a neighboring county. A few days ago I read in an old newspaper that they had regular book sales, so I called to see if they were still accepting donations, and get their mailing address. I wasn't sure if it was a prompting or my own idea, but the idea impressed itself upon me to the point where I decided to act upon it.

I sent them a hardback Book of Mormon, an inexpensive used quadruple combination that I had purchased on Ebay, Gospel Principles, Our Heritage, True to the Faith, a "Joy to the World" DVD, and an English/Spanish "Finding Faith in Christ" DVD.

If nothing else, it put me at the Post Office at the right time to meet the Indonesian man.

3 Comments:

At 1/18/2006 07:04:00 PM, NFlanders said...: At every used book sale I go to, there are always a couple ratty Books of Mormon languishing on the Religion table. Now I know who to blame for this.
At 1/18/2006 08:52:00 PM, Bookslinger said...: That's why I always give away the hard-cover editions, good ones too.
At 1/19/2006 12:51:00 AM, NFlanders said...: That's good. The paperback ones just do not hold up well at all.

Flooding the Earth with the Book of Mormon

Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Moment #509. Donation to Library book sale. Tue, Jan 17, 2006.

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