The missionaries in our mission are finding investigators who speak neither Dutch or English. With refugees pouring into Europe this will happen much more often. President Bunnell gave us an assignment a few months ago. We are to gather the names of members of the Church in our mission who are fluent in languages other than Dutch and English. The missionaries then contact us with their language needs and we connect them with a translator. It has been amazing! We have gathered the names of about 50 people who speak 24 different languages. We have had requests for Arabic, Farsi, Portuguese, and Mongolian! We had translators for all but Mongolian. With Pres. Bunnell's help we were able to contact the Mongolian mission and arranged translation via Skype for a lesson with an investigator.
“ For it shall come to pass in that day, that every man shall hear the fullness of the gospel in his own tongue, and in his own language, through those who are ordained unto this power by the administration of the Comforter, shed forth upon them for the revelation of Jesus Christ.”
We had a famous LDS Instagram/blog woman come to our stake YM/YW and share her conversion story and love of the gospel. After her talk the stake president got up and shared this same scripture and told the kids they had just heard the gospel in their own language: the language of millenials. Elder Nelson gave a talk in Hawaii about being Millenials. So cool!
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