(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.
06/03/2006. Late at night. Two men who were already friends met each other at a gas station while I was walking in. I couldn't tell what they were speaking, but I asked, and it was French. I ended up giving them 2 copies of a French New Testament and a French Book of Mormon. (It's late, more later.)
posted by Bookslinger @ 12:50 AM
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Can you get out do more? I need the lift in the mornings. :)
There are still a couple hundred stories on an old hard drive I could transfer to the blog.
That hard drive is sort-of crashed. I can get the data, but it's a bit of work.
I just realized I haven't posted any stories from my trip to San Antonio in May of 2005, and there are several more stories from my trip to Colorado in Marh 2005 that aren't online.
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