Senior Missionaries Conference in April

Once a year we have a conference for just the senior couples in the mission.  This conference gives them a chance to know each other better and talk and share ideas.  We have 6 1/2 couples serving now in the mission.                      Yamanita Couple serve in Miyako

Tanaka Couple serve in Ichinoseki

Sakamoto Couple serve in Ishinomaki

Oyama Couple serve in Morioka

Noonchester Couple serve in the Office

Sister Kakuda and Sister Rollins serve in the Office

Elder Yamada serves in the office

 



(NOTE:  for some unknown reason, the pictures in this posting are not in the right order.  Could it possibly be the fault of the administrator/author??? )

 

L-R  Oyama, Tanaka, Yamanita

 



Yamanita couple singing with sign language.

 



Special music performed by Sister Tanaka, E & S Yamanita, Pres & Sis Sugawara.

(Sister and Elder Noonchester sitting in front)

 



Sakamoto couple training the group.

 



Gary training them.

 



Yamanita's training

 



Breakfast together.  Breakfast casserole and muffins & miso soup.

 



The wonderful Assistants helped with translation.

The Tanaka's training

Talent show--following instructions to sign a song.

Sisters Wright, Rollins, and Kakuda

Noonchester couple and Oyama couple and Elder Christensen

also following instructions to sign a song.

 



Gary was the MC for the talent show!

Elder Yamada plays the harmonica.  Who knew?

 

The Wrights gave everyone a large man handkerchief

and we were to all make something out of it.

Elder Tanaka plays the saxaphone very well.  He tried to join a band in Ichinoseki

but they always played their concerts on Sunday so he quit.

Pres & Sis. Sugawara sang a duet!

Elder Noonchester wore this mustache all evening.  He is so funny.  He keeps us laughing.

Elder Sakamoto can do a rubics cube really fast!!

Sister Sakamoto sewed dozens and dozens of baby doll clothes and gave each

of us several for our granddaughters age 5 and under.

Sister Rollins sang a solo.  She was Ms. Utah before coming on her mission.

 

Sister Oyama read a beautiful poem.

I described our (Gary's) talent of making videos of grandchildren.  (We only showed a short segment of the whole video so we didn't bore them with "home movies" that never end) 

 

Elder Oyama played an old Japanese instrament.

The Noonchesters played a duet on the piano.

(E. Noonchester played a note or two at the appropriate time. Awesome!!)

 

 

We had our group picture taken on the way to dinner.

 

This fellow next to Gary is the owner of the restaurant around the corner from our home.  He came into work on his day off just to serve dinner to the 22 of us.  We filled up his entire restaurant so he can't feel too badly about having to work!