Flooding the Earth with the Book of Mormon: Punjabi at gas station. Sat, Apr 30, 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, April 30, 2011

Punjabi at gas station. Sat, Apr 30, 2011.

04/30/2011. 1280. I was out of town on a trip and stopped to get gas. I paid at the pump, but went inside to buy something. The cashier was a native English-speaker, but a couple of other guys, who seemed to be the owners or managers, were behind the counter speaking a foreign language. They were leaving just as I was done, so I asked one of them if they spoke Punjabi (just a guess on my part.) He said yes, so I offered him some free material from church in Punjabi. He agreed to receive it, so I went back to my car and retrieved a Punjabi copy and an English copy of the Joseph Smith Testimony pamphlet. I wrote my name and number on the back of one of the pamphlets, and the 888-537-2200 central missionary number (from the Book of Mormon pass along card). He was going to his car, so he stopped near my car and I presented them to him.

I was all out of Punjabi Gospel Fundamentals; and the church distribution center was out of them too, last I checked.

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