Flooding the Earth with the Book of Mormon: Punjabi at gas station. Fri, Nov 9, 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.

Friday, November 09, 2007

Punjabi at gas station. Fri, Nov 9, 2007.

11/09/2007. 914. I was on the other side of town visiting friends, and on my way home stopped at a gas station to buy a newspaper. The cashier was from Punjab in India, and spoke Punjabi. He accepted my offer of Punjabi and English copies of Gospel Fundamentals, and Punjabi and English copies of the Joseph Smith Testimony Pamphlet. I had them in the car, so I retrieved them and presented them to him right there.

Labels: gas station, Punjabi

4 Comments:

At 12/15/2007 11:59:00 PM, KC said...: Elder Ballard quoted from this post!

http://www.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/news-releases-stories/using-new-media-to-support-the-work-of-the-church
At 12/16/2007 12:15:00 PM, rudi said...: You should know that you were recently quoted by Elder Ballard in a BYU-H commencement speech. If it wasn't for that talk I would have no idea the good things people like you are doing.
http://www.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/news-releases-stories/using-new-media-to-support-the-work-of-the-church
At 4/05/2010 09:11:00 AM, Bookslinger said...: Here's the video of Elder Ballard's BYU-H December 2007 graduation talk, where he quoted this blog entry. (Flash viewer).

Or view it here with Winamp. This link may also work with Windows Media player if you're patient. It's better to copy/paste that link into Winamp or Windows Media Player, so it will stream and play immediately. If you just click on it, it will have to completely download before it will start to play.

The quote is from 23:41 through 25:07.
At 12/21/2010 10:53:00 PM, Bookslinger said...: The links are broken due to the new LDS web site.

Here's the new link to the transcript of Elder Ballard's talk.

http://beta-newsroom.lds.org/article/using-new-media-to-support-the-work-of-the-church

Flooding the Earth with the Book of Mormon

Friday, November 09, 2007

Punjabi at gas station. Fri, Nov 9, 2007.

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