April Wrap Up - Various Pictures from April 2011

Inori Tada with us in Kobe during General Conference. She is a college student and like one of our own daughters. She is from Toyooka.
Sunday Session General conference pot luck at the church and mission home.
More pot luck.
The Ebisu family at general conference in Kobe. The whole family was baptized the next week in Sumoto, Awaji Island.
The Gokokuji Temple next to the Mission Home with Sakura in full bloom.
Elder Moffatt with a birthday face cookie.
Kyoto - crouching tiger or sleeping dragon? Or maybe just a crazy mission president!
Byodoin Temple in Kyoto, Joyo area during Sakura.
River near Byodoin TempleThe Byodoin Temple is the image on the Japanese 10 yen coin.
President's transfer board April 2011 transfers. A lot of missionaries. 21 new missionaries arrived.
2 Assistants and 2 Travelling Assistants/Trainers this transfer, including Elder Guy from Tokyo. Sister McIntyre made them Fantastic 4 aprons.
This is what it looks like when you have 21 missionaries over for dinner.
With Elder Starks in Kyoto at the Hachimangu Shrine
Some of the Kobe Elders enjoying a trip to a Kyoto flea market on preparation day.
Found a great deal on used kimono!

General Conference Pot Luck Lunch in Kobe

Between Sessions of General Conference we have a tradition of holding a pot luck meal right outside the church. The missionaries bring their investigators to conference and we all meet them and get to know them at lunch time.
Conference is broadcast here in the local languages the week after live conference in the US. We have done this now at least 5 times. This time the weather was great as usually.

General Conference Broadcast Sunday

Here in Japan all stakes broadcast general conference the week following conference in Salt Lake City. Live broadcasts are not practical due to time difference and the week delay allows for language translation and DVD's to be sent out to units without satellite capability. So this past Sunday was conference week here in Japan. In between Sunday sessions the Kansai Branch and the missionaries held a potluck lunch with everyone just bringing something and setting it out on the tables the elders set up between the mission home and the church. Missionaries invite investigators to conference and then we talk to them over lunch in between sessions.

Elder and Sister Pyper dish up some lunch, but did not know they were caught on film.

Here are a couple shots of the line and tables. Above is James (on the right) and Sister Yamamura with her two children (on the left). Sister Yamamura was baptized later that evening in the Akashi Ward. Below is a picture of Sister Meyers. She is completing her mission this week.

After conference, we drove to Akashi for the double baptism of Sister Yamamura and Brother Yanase. They were both taught by Elders Fukui and Shinozaki also pictured.