Flooding the Earth with the Book of Mormon: Stocking up the Chinese Sunday School teacher. 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

Stocking up the Chinese Sunday School teacher. Thu, May 31, 2007.

05/31/2007. Journal Entry. My errands were going to take me near the office where the Chinese-speaking Sunday school teacher works. He learned Mandarin while in the US Army, and had been stationed in Taiwan. He teaches an investigators' class (Gospel Essentials) in the ward where I used to live, and teaches it in Mandarin.

I stopped by his office and dropped off a couple Chinese copies of the Liahona magazine, a bilingual Chinese/English New Testament, and some Chinese language newspapers that I picked up at a North side Asian market. He reimbursed me the few dollars for the material.

The Asian markets near where the investigators live don't all have the newspapers, so I thought it might be a good gesture for him to give them to the investigators in case they haven't seen those newspapers before.

Labels: Chinese, Sunday school