Flooding the Earth with the Book of Mormon: Chinese at restaurant. Mon, May 21, 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.

Monday, May 21, 2007

Chinese at restaurant. Mon, May 21, 2007.

05/21/2007. 826. This is the second time I've been here. The first time, back in March, I didn't have any material with me because I had emptied the car in order to move stuff. But I did chat with the owner about the videos and other stuff the church has in Mandarin and Cantonese.

I stopped there for supper tonight, and recognized the owner/hostess, and she recognized me too. I guess I was over-anxious and talked to her about the material as soon as she showed me to a table. I offered, and she accepted a couple of multi-lingual DVDs, Together Forever, and Finding Happiness. She also accepted a Simplified Script Chinese Book of Mormon and an English Book of Mormon.

Later on, I saw her husband flipping through the Chinese Book of Mormon.

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