Translating sentence help!

[CCSUCaboose]

Hey everybody, I just started my attempt to translate a Japanese Book Of Mormon today! And I got stuck at the first sentence. So, I think I have it correctly written, just not translated right. Here's what I think it is:
goran watakushi wa anata tachi ni sasume tai.
That's the best I could do (this is my first time, don't laugh I only started learning Japaanese 4 months ago).
Originally the symbols were like this: (watakushi was in kanji so I left it together)
go ra n watakushi ha a na ta ta chi ni su su me ta i
So PLEASE tell me if I got it wrong, thanks!

[MMM]

Where is the translation?

[KyleGoetz]

Originally Posted by CCSUCaboose

Hey everybody, I just started my attempt to translate a Japanese Book Of Moron today! And I got stuck at the first sentence. So, I think I have it correctly written, just not translated right. Here's what I think it is:
goran watakushi wa anata tachi ni sasume tai.
That's the best I could do (this is my first time, don't laugh I only started learning Japaanese 4 months ago).
Originally the symbols were like this: (watakushi was in kanji so I left it together)
go ra n watakushi ha a na ta ta chi ni su su me ta i
So PLEASE tell me if I got it wrong, thanks!

It'd help to see the English.

And did you mean Book of Mormon? Haha.

[CCSUCaboose]

Originally Posted by KyleGoetz

It'd help to see the English.

And did you mean Book of Mormon? Haha.

Oh crap wow, I did NOT mean to write moron, that's the most irritating joke ever. Sorry. As for the translation, it's different than the original english version, that one has more introductions so I don't have a clue where in the beginning it could be. If you want, I'll find an english version online.

[MMM]

I don't understand. Are you translating it, or are you just trying to pronounce the characters?

[CCSUCaboose]

I'm trying to translate it, I want to understand the meaning of the sentence. I'll explain why tomorrow, I'm tired. Thanks!

[KyleGoetz]

Originally Posted by CCSUCaboose

I'm trying to translate it, I want to understand the meaning of the sentence. I'll explain why tomorrow, I'm tired. Thanks!

From one amateur Biblical scholar to another (although I am Lutheran, not Mormon): you're wasting your time if you hope this gives you some insight. The original is in English, right? (Well, I guess technically the original is in some angelic language, if I recall Mormon doctrine correctly.) So just read the original. And if you're reading something from the Bible proper and not the Mormon Bible, then you're getting a doubly watered-down version (Aramaic/Greek/Hebrew->Japanese->English).

[CCSUCaboose]

You mean to say that it'd be translated into something impossible to understand without knowing the older language? Cause if that's it, the Japanese Book Of Mormon was retranslated in the 90's so that it could be understood by anyone who knew Japanese, and not the older Japanese that had the english equivalent of, say, thee thou, etc. ( I forget what that's called) So it should be translatable for anyone that can read modern Japanese, which is why I was hoping someone would translate it. Oh yeah, and I have read the English Book Of Mormon, It's just that (you don't have to read this whole explanation) I was told by several in my church (Mormon church) that if we're trying to learn a language, we should read the Book Of Mormon in that language the best we can, and we will learn it. I still do learn from books and stuff though, don't think this is the only thing I'm doing.

[MMM]

So is your goal to learn Japanese or your goal to read the Book of Mormon?

[CCSUCaboose]

Okay, I am trying to learn Japanese, but I am also trying to read the Japanese Book Of Mormon, not because I want too know what it says, but to help with my Japanese through reading it. I don't need to understand everything it, but I want to do this.