Elder and Sister Yamishita Mission Tour in May

Waiting for the train to come in from Tokyo with the Yamishita's on it.  Not very many minutes go by without a phone call to Gary.

Elder Yamashita interviewed the office couple and the AP's before dinner.  Sister Furukawa prepared a Japanese dinner that they loved.  They have lived in SLC the past year and real Japanese food is the thing they missed the most.

Elder Yamashita is a member of the Seventy who was recently made the 1st Counselor to the new Area President, Elder Ringwood.  He and his wife were so nice and kind to us.  We enjoyed our days with them.    After dinner, we loaded into the van and drove to Morioka where we spent the night and prepared for the Mori-Mori (Aomori and Morioka) Zone Conference the next morning.

As we arrived at the church, the missionaries were singing in their places ready for the group picture to be taken.   After the picture was taken, each missionary filed by to shake the hands of the Yamishitas and Elder Nishihara, our Area Authority.

Sister Tanabe

Elders Fukuta, Saunders, and Fitzpatrick. (Elder Fukuta graduated from High School at Westwood in Mesa.  He lives in Japan, however.)

Elder and sister Tsuchida, who are serving in Morioka,  are good friends of the Yamishitas.  They are all from Fukuoka where Elder Tsuchida was the Temple President.

Elder Chipman

Elder Squire

Elder Dick

Elder Takase

Elder Shaw

Elder Mizoguchi

Elder Dowdy

Elder Juchau

Elder Ikeda

Eating an obento lunch

The next morning we met with the Sendai and Niigata Zones .

Again the missionaries were waiting in their assigned place for pictures and were singing hymns when we arrived. 

  

Sendai and Niigata Zones



The line for handshaking one by one.

Sister Tanaka

Sister Tada

Sister Thomas

Elder Thomas

Elder and Sister Sakamoto

Elder & Sister Jahana

Elder Elkins

Elder Cannon

Elder Lay

Elder Sanders

Elder Carter