Flooding the Earth with the Book of Mormon: Chinese at restaurant. Tue, Nov 11, 2008.

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.

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Chinese at restaurant. Tue, Nov 11, 2008.

11/11/2008. 1083. I was travelling out of town, for a 2 day trip, and figured on having a late lunch or early supper some place along the highway. I found a Chinese buffet that I had scouted out on a previous trip in this direction, but hadn't patronized yet. I wasn't even thinking about it when I passed the first exit at this highway interchange, but felt that I may have been inspired to take this exit. The feeling to get off the interstate here was stronger as I approached the 2nd exit at this interchange, so I took the exit leading to the cross-highway in the opposite direction. It was then that I remembered the Chinese buffet, so I had to turn around and go the other way.

At the buffet restaurant, on one of her trips to my table, I offered the waitress a Chinese simplified script Book of Mormon and a "Finding Happiness" DVD. She accepted both. After paying up front, I offered her a Chinese Liahona magazine, which she also accepted.

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