Flooding the Earth with the Book of Mormon: Tagalog DVD's to delivery guy. Sat, Feb 19, 2011.

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.

Saturday, February 19, 2011

Tagalog DVD's to delivery guy. Sat, Feb 19, 2011.

02/19/2011. 1271. I was doing some volunteer work at a local church office on a Saturday. Right after I exited the door, a delivery guy showed up with a package that needed a signature. I was the only guy there, and had a key, so I offered to sign for it and take it inside, so as to save him a trip on Monday, or save the office staff from having to go pick it up.

He appeared foreign-born, so I asked where his family was originally from, and he said the Philippines. I asked if he still spoke Tagalog, and he said yes. But he didn't read Tagalog any more, so I offered him some DVD's from church with Tagalog audio tracks. He was interested, so I got three DVD's out of my car and presented them to him. I think they were The Restoration, Heavenly Father's Plan, and To This End Was I Born. He gratefully accepted them.

(Note: Case prices are not shown on the church web site. But if you phone your order in, and order a whole case, these DVD's cost only $1.19 to $1.50 each. The old ordering system had case prices online, but the new store does not.)

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