Flooding the Earth with the Book of Mormon: Chinese at restaurant. Thu, Mar 15, 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.

Thursday, March 15, 2007

Chinese at restaurant. Thu, Mar 15, 2007.

03/15/2007. 801. I had lunch at a Chinese strip-mall restaurant that I hadn't been to before. This is in the NE section of town, and is located in my new ward. I probably could have gotten the ward mission leader (WML) to go with me for lunch here on his day off. Maybe we'll do a follow-up together. One of the cooks, probably the owner's wife, brought my main plate out first. She was polite, but was so quick I didn't have time to say anything. When the owner/cashier brought out my egg roll, he glanced at the books I had on my table (Chinese/English bilingual New Testament, Simplified Chinese Book of Mormon, English Book of Mormon, and Traditional Chinese Book of Mormon.) I used that as my opportunity to make a presentation, and he was both polite and showed genuine interest. One of the cooks was out front, and also expressed interest. The owner/cashier accepted the Simplified Chinese/English New Testament, the Simplified Chinese Book of Mormon, and the English Book of Mormon. I gave the cook the "Finding Happiness" DVD. I asked the owner/cashier if the cook wanted some books too, but he indicated they were all one family and could share. The owner/cashier seemed genuinely grateful and interested.

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