Flooding the Earth with the Book of Mormon: Road Trip. Tip to Nigerian member. Sun, Nov 22, 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.

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Road Trip. Tip to Nigerian member. Sun, Nov 22, 2009.

11/22/2009. Journal entry. While visiting the ward in my destination city, one of the ladies in the Gospel Doctrine Sunday School class spoke with an African accent. I spoke with her after class, and found out she was from Nigeria and spoke Igbo. She didn't have an Igbo Book of Mormon, and I had given out the two that I had brought with me. So I gave her the phone numbers to the Distribution Center, 801-240-3800, or toll free 800-537-5001, so she could order one.

(If you have free long distance, use the 801 number, and save the church a buck.)

(PS. The Sunday School president in the ward looked like he was the exact model for ventriloquist Jeff Dunham's dummy. He looked exactly like "Walter", also here. No, the SS pres wasn't all frowny, but if he had been, he would have looked like Walter.)

Labels: Igbo, members