Flooding the Earth with the Book of Mormon: Hindi, Punjabi at gas station. Fri, Feb 9, 2007.

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.

Friday, February 09, 2007

Hindi, Punjabi at gas station. Fri, Feb 9, 2007.

02/09/2007. 791. On my way home from a monthly social meeting downtown I took a route I haven't taken before. That took me past a gas station I hadn't been to. It's a brand that often is owned and staffed by people from the Middle East or India.

I stopped in to buy a paper and chatted a bit with the cashier. He was from India and spoke Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu. I'm out of Urdu Books of Mormon (and they are out of stock at the Salt Lake Distribution Center), but I retrieved Hindi and English copies of the Book of Mormon, and Punjabi and English copies of Gospel Fundamentals from the car. He accepted them and immediately started flipping through them.

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Flooding the Earth with the Book of Mormon

Friday, February 09, 2007

Hindi, Punjabi at gas station. Fri, Feb 9, 2007.

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