Flooding the Earth with the Book of Mormon: Chinese at restaurant. Sat, Jun 16, 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.

Saturday, June 16, 2007

Chinese at restaurant. Sat, Jun 16, 2007.

06/16/2007. 832. I was on my way from Indianapolis to a church dance for Single Adults at another stake. I couldn't find any Chinese restaurants at two of the exits that I tried. I wondered which exits I should try next, or whether I should just wait until I got to the destination city before eating.

I got near this one exit, and received a very strong impression that I should take it, and go East. I took that exit, and stopped at the gas station that was right there. I bought something and asked the cashier if there were any Chinese restaurants nearby. Another employee knew of two and gave me directions.

I went to the first one, and sat down and ordered. It was a pretty nice place with good food. The family was from Taiwan, so they read traditional script Chinese. The mom of the family accepted a Chinese Liahona, but declined the English edition of the same issue, and she accepted both the traditional script Chinese Book of Mormon along with an English Book of Mormon.

The food was very underpriced for the quality, so I left a generous tip. If any local LDS members want a restaurant tip for this nice restaurant along I-65, send me an email.

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