Flooding the Earth with the Book of Mormon: Samoan follow-up. 2 coincidences.

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, October 06, 2007

Samoan follow-up. 2 coincidences.

10/06/2007. I talked to the elders at the chapel as we were gathered to watch General Conference.

It turns out the Samoan lady that I met at a store on Wednesday and her family live in the same ward where the full time elder from Samoa is assigned. They are in the other ward that shares the chapel that I go to. She did call the phone number I had given her (the wrong one), but the elders passed her info on to the right elders, and the Samoan elder called and made contact with her family. He said they were excited about meeting him.

I told the Samoan elder I thought it was cool that her brother-in-law was already a member of the church. The Samoan elder then told me that her brother-in-law lives in his home ward back in Utah! I can't believe all the coincidences that lined up for that! WOO HOO!

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