Flooding the Earth with the Book of Mormon: Missed opportunity. Wed, Apr 8, 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.

Wednesday, April 08, 2009

Missed opportunity. Wed, Apr 8, 2009.

04/08/2009. Missed opportunity. I had just left an investigator's home with the missionaries. They were about to pull out of their parking space in their car, and I was about to pull out of my parking space too. A man walking his dog passed by. I felt some sort of desire or need to speak with him. As I pulled away, I felt my attention drawn back to him, and I looked back. In that moment I realized I was fighting a prompting of the Spirit to stop and speak to him. Instead of going back and talking to him, I chickened out and disobeyed. Oh, how much easier it would have been had I just turned off the car and got out before leaving the parking space when the idea first came to mind. Ack. I was handed an opportunity and I blew it.

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3 Comments:

At 4/12/2009 11:09:00 PM, Inland All Cycle Cycling Club said...: Hi :) Been reading all of your different experiences. You are an inspiration thank you for sharing.
At 4/13/2009 04:16:00 PM, Chas Hathaway said...: Wow! Thanks for your amazing blog. I've been reading for awhile now, and just want you to know that your experiences are helping me feel a greater desire to share the gospel with people I meet.

I served a mission in Africa, and though I've been home about 9 years, it seems like just yesterday. But somehow sharing the gospel is the scariest thing in the world to me - but your blog makes me want to try harder.

Thanks, and PLEASE keep doing it!

- Chas
http://popcorn.willowrise.com
At 4/13/2009 11:43:00 PM, Bookslinger said...: Chas, I know that scary feeling. That's why I don't think of it as sharing the gospel. I think of it as: offering people a free book in their native language.

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Wednesday, April 08, 2009

Missed opportunity. Wed, Apr 8, 2009.

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