The Morris' arrived on the train at 10:30 PM and were very tired. The AP's, Thomas' and Jahana's came with us to welcome them to the Japan Sendai Mission. Afterwards, we all came to our home where I served them a bowl of soup and bread and sent them all to bed.
The next day after the Morris' were trained, fed and ready to leave for Kooriyama.
The Tsuchidas are from Fukuoka, Japan. He has been a Mission President, a Temple President (Fukuoka Temple) and President of the Japanese MTC. They are in their mid to late 70's but wanted to serve a mission. They will be fabulous. The day they arrived--after feeding them and they had gone to bed, we got an E-mail from the Area President telling us that the brethren in Salt Lake had decided that NO missionaries, young or old, should be placed in Kooriyama, Iwaki and Fukushima. We had just placed the Morris' in Kooriyama and the Tsuchidas were leaving the next day for Iwaki. That is a moment of panic. Now where do we place them and where will they live? How do we tell the Branch members in Kooriyama and Iwaki that they will not be getting missionaries after all? Will they feel like they are not loved or cared about by the mission or the brethren in SLC? Lots of thought and prayer went into that night but by morning the decision was made to move the Morris couple to Yonezawa, an area that was in the Red Zone that has had no missionaries since the big Earthquake. The Tsuchidas would go to Morioka. They would live in a hotel until an apartment could be rented.
After a morning of training, we invited the Thomas' and Jahanas for lunch and picture taking before the Tsuchidas left for Morioka.
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