Flooding the Earth with the Book of Mormon: Mongolian to friend of friend. Thu, Mar 22, 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 22, 2007

Mongolian to friend of friend. Thu, Mar 22, 2007.

03/22/2007. 806. I had lunch with the guy who joined the church in November of last year, and two of his friends who came to visit him from another city. One of his friends was already a member long before I met the guy who joined in November. The other was not a member.

After eating we stopped by an auto parts store so they could get something before they went on an out-of-town errand. I asked the one visitor who was already LDS if their non-member friend had a Book of Mormon in his language. He said no, so I got the Mongolian and English out of trunk, and gave them to him so he could present them to his friend.

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