Flooding the Earth with the Book of Mormon: Custom pass-along card, v2. Cheaper.

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.

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Custom pass-along card, v2. Cheaper.

I received a coupon in email from staples.marktheworld.com for standard-template business cards, black ink on plain stock, for only $10 per 1,000, even cheaper than the previous ones I did for $16.99 per 1,000 at www.officedepot.com/, and cheaper than the 2.0 cents per that the church charges. But granted, the church's are full color, with nice pictures.

They don't have the exact same templates, but it's close enough.
Here it is:

802-9650 was the Indianapolis mission office phone number (now the local mission office number is 317-580-0479), and 888-537-2200 is the toll free number from the church's English Book of Mormon pass-along card.

I used template "JB4" for the above, at staples.marktheworld.com, and a coupon code to get the $10 price. Without the coupon, the price is $19.99/1,000 with free shipping. So if the coupon expires, go to www.officedepot.com, for a better price.

See my previous entry for more about custom business-card sized pass-along cards.

Here's the Spanish version. The x'ed out numbers are the phone numbers of the apartments of the missionaries who speak Spanish. The missionaries gave me permission to use those since no one at the office speaks Spanish.