Flooding the Earth with the Book of Mormon: Hindi at restaurant. Fri, Aug 20, 2010.

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, August 20, 2010

Hindi at restaurant. Fri, Aug 20, 2010.

08/20/2010. 1248. I had lunch at an Indian restaurant. I put a Hindi copy and an English copy of the Book of Mormon on the table as I ate and read my newspaper. The waitress noticed them and started a conversation about them. I offered them to her, and she enthusiastically accepted them. Later, she gave them to one of the other employees and appeared to make a brief explanation of them to him. The other employee was not fluent in English, so I gather that she suggested he use them to improve his English reading skills. That was really nice of her, so I'll have to follow up to see if they want any more

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