Flooding the Earth with the Book of Mormon: Cambodian at Asian restaurant. Tue, May 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.

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Cambodian at Asian restaurant. Tue, May 15, 2007.

05/15/2007. 822. I stopped for lunch at an Asian restaurant that I haven't been to before. I gave some books to a friend to take there, and I think she placed them, but I don't remember exactly. So assuming that they already had the Book of Mormon, I took in some Liahona magazines in that language, along with the corresponding English issues.

I got there towards the end of the lunch rush. There were a lot of people in the dining room, and the one waitress was moving pretty quickly to serve everyone.

By the time I finished eating and paid, all but one other table had emptied, so I had an opportunity to ask if she liked to read in _______. She said that she didn't read _______, so I asked her where she was from, and she said Cambodia. I offered her a Book of Mormon in Cambodian. She agreed to see it, so I said I'd get it from my car. I went out and got it and an English copy and brought them in.

She seemed genuinely glad to see something in Cambodian, but she kept calling it a Mormon Bible. Maybe the word for "book" that is in the Cambodian title of the "Book of Mormon" is the one used for Bible, as is the Chinese. Anyway, she also accepted the English copy to go with it.

Labels: Cambodian, restaurant