We have spent the last week in Tokyo training for our assignment as Family History Area Advisers with Keiji Sugimoto, Area Family History Director. Here is Keiji in the Tokyo Temple FHC.
One of our favorite things about Japan is the food Keiji introduced us to, like sushi, ramen and shabu shabu sukiyaki.
He also took us to several historic sites. Here is a Shinto Shrine at Mt. Tsukuba, "Tsukuba-san-jinja"
and the Great Buddha (1252) at Kamakura.
Combining the cultural with the culinary, we snacked on warm little custard-filled Buddha cakes they were selling just outside the temple.
We finished our week in Japan today with an Area training meeting where we met with five other Area Adviser couples, the Asia North Area President, Elder Michael T. Ringwood, Keiji's staff from the Area office and Craig Miller, vice-president of Family Search International along with three of his colleagues from Salt Lake City. We fly out to Guam tomorrow and are really excited to finally be there and get to work!
Goodness, you have had an adventure! How neat for Gena--where is she going?
ReplyDeleteI am sure you are more than anxious to get this thing on the road. The "hanging out" just makes it harder to say goodbye! I guess the Lord, in his wisdom, knows where we need to be. I am still wondering why I am in Washington DC---it was 9 degrees this morning--- but we just keep moving forward! BTW--my email is slerickson1972@gmail.com
Good luck to you--I will keep checking on you!
Shauna E.
Hi!! Sorry things didn't work for India, but maybe this will be better. Alice came by the library yesterday. She hadn't visited since you left. She said her radiation treatments are doing her in. Lack of energy. She said she'd been visiting with her cousin in Canada and wishes she'd known her years before. She said her cousin actually lived in England at one point and met family while there. Miss you so .... Dianne
ReplyDeleteI miss you guys too. We are enjoying our work here. Tell Alice hi for me and to figure out her mother's siblings (the one's we couldn't) and put them on Family Tree so I can see. I am dying to know who Uncle George and William were--and who their fathers were.
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