French, Hausa at laundromat. Sun, Oct 19, 2008.
10/19/2008. 1077. I was pulling a late-nighter at the all-night laundromat. A family, a mom and five children ranging from teenagers to a newborn, came in speaking a foreign language. I waited until they had put all their laundry in the washers and I had my laundry in the dryers, then I went over and spoke to the mom.
They were from Niger and spoke French and Hausa. I offered them a French Book of Mormon and a Hausa Sunday school manual. The mom accepted and agreed to receive them. So I went out to my car and retrieved them, plus the English copies.
When I presented them, they were definitely interested, and the mom asked where the church was. She started flipping through the material right there. After I went back and was folding my laundry, the mom was still reading the Gospel Fundamentals Sunday school manual.
Later on, I gave them a multi-lingual copy of "Together Forever" that has a French audio track.
Labels: French, Hausa, laundromat
posted by Bookslinger @ 12:10 AM
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A few of your stories have made me wonder if people receiving Hausa (or other non-english language) material assume the local services are performed in Hausa (or other non-english language). What do you think? Do you mention to them that the services are in English?
Sometimes people ask if there are members who speak their language. Usually, I have to tell them "Not any here, that I know of. But back the church does have congregations back in ______."
There was a member who spoke Hausa in the ward that shares the building with us. But I don't know if he's still there. I'll have to ask about him next week.
There are French speakers though.
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