More on Zone Conference

Here's a little more information on Kagoshima Zone Conference.  Since we share zone conference with Kumamoto Zone and Kumamoto is about an hour drive from Fukuoka, it is less travel to hold conference at Kumamoto rather than Kagoshima.  To help keep costs down, I get to bus as many as can fit in a vehicle.  With only a regular license, I am only allowed to drive a maximum of 8 people.  Normally, that means taking the Taniyama Sisters, Kagoshima Sisters, and 1 of 2 Kagoshima Elder companionships.  The remaining Kagoshima Elders and Taniyama Elders would take a bus.  To take 6 passengers in addition to Sister Lee and me, we have to rent a 8 passenger van.  We pick up the van the night before conference and park it at the teaching station.  In the morning we walk over to the teaching station and drive to pick up the missionaries at a parking lot of a grocery store near the Kagoshima Sisters' apartment.  With the announcement of a new church building, the teaching station will eventually be replaced by the church building itself.  When that happens, it will probably mean I'll park the van in a paid parking lot just across the alley from our apartment building.  The gathering place to depart will probably change as well because no doubt there will be efforts to find apartments for the young missionaries closer to the new church building.

Remember one of my earlier posts where I showed a photo of our active volcano.  Here is a link giving more information about it.

https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e4601.html

I mention the volcano again because Sister Lee just the night before checked the wind direction and noticed that the wind is projected to blow toward us from the volcano during the morning.  Sure enough, as we walked to the teaching station to get the van, a speck of ash got into my left eye.  Thank goodness, it was not hot but it was a nuisance for a number of minutes.  When Sister Lee and I occasionally ran our hands through our hair, we noticed black specks underneath our fingernails.  As long as it stays this way of constantly letting off steam / ash, I am OK with it.  Don't want any major eruptions.