Flooding the Earth with the Book of Mormon: Follow-up to #595. Pashto. Sat, Jul 1, 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.

Saturday, July 01, 2006

Follow-up to #595. Pashto. Sat, Jul 1, 2006.

07/01/2006. I was in the neighborhood so I stopped by one of the middle-eastern stores. I had given an Urdu Book of Mormon to a cashier there on June 15th. He had told me then that his wife spoke Pashto, but I didn't have any Pashto material in the car.

I've been back a couple times since then, but was never able to catch him there.

So today I stopped in, and he was there so I gave him Pashto and English copies of Gospel Fundamentals. It was just a quick in-and-out.

2 Comments:

At 7/03/2006 10:32:00 PM, Anonymous said...: Do you attend the _____ Ward in Indianapolis? If so I may know you! I'm very impressed with what you are doing here and I commend you...keep up the amazing work!
At 7/03/2006 10:34:00 PM, Bookslinger said...: Yes, I do attend that ward. You can email me at: Bookslinger \aat\ IndyMormon -d0tt- /org/

(If you can decipher my anti-spam encoding. :-)

Flooding the Earth with the Book of Mormon

Saturday, July 01, 2006

Follow-up to #595. Pashto. Sat, Jul 1, 2006.

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