Flooding the Earth with the Book of Mormon: Punjabi at gas station. Fri, May 29, 2009.

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, May 29, 2009

Punjabi at gas station. Fri, May 29, 2009.

05/29/2009. 1152. I stopped at a gas station to buy a newspaper on my way home. The cashier was someone I had met at another gas station (same brand) in another part of town. I had given him some Punjabi material before. I followed up by asking what he thought. He said he read part of it, and seemed to want another copy. I'm not sure if he left the previous one at the other gas station, or wanted one to share with another Punjabi-speaking employee. Anyway, I didn't have the material in my car, since I had to remove some of the containers, so I went home (it wasn't too far) and retrieved some material, and went back. He accepted another Punjabi Gospel Fundamentals and Punjabi Joseph Smith testimony pamphlet.

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