Flooding the Earth with the Book of Mormon: Chinese at restaurant. Thu, May 31, 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, May 31, 2007

Chinese at restaurant. Thu, May 31, 2007.

05/31/2007. 827. I had lunch at a restaurant on the Northeast side of town that I haven't been to before. I put out some of the standard stuff on my table, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, and English copies of the Book of Mormon, a bilingual Chinese/English New Testament, a "Finding Happiness" DVD, a Chinese Liahona, and I was reading the corresponding English Liahona.

Once when the waitress came to refill my drink, she noticed the material, but didn't say anything, and didn't stop long enough for me to say anything.

On another trip when she came to remove a used plate, I struck up a conversation. I forget how I started, but probably asked if she spoke Mandarin or Cantonese. She ended up accepting everything, the Simplified Chinese and the English copies of the Book of Mormon, the Chinese and the English Liahonas, the bilingual New Testament, and the DVD. She was enthusiastic in accepting them too. She asked where the church was, so I showered her the flyer in one of the books, and circled the address of the nearest chapel.

She took everything over to some of the other employees, who were likely family members.

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