This is a group picture of those attended this 50th year anniversary commemoration of the first missionaries coming to Kagoshima who stuck around at the end to get into the picture. President Sano, 1st Counselor in the Fukuoka Mission Presidency, kneeling in front, was the one who pushed the timer button on the camera and dashed from the back of the pews to get into the photo.
The above photo was some of the food at the commemoration. Original plan was to serve peanut butter jelly sandwiches. What kind of commemoration would that be? Common sense prevailed resulting in more festive dishes. Sister Lee made those ham and cheese sandwiches on homemade tomato bread baked with various herbs.
People loved the food and mingling. Couple of our English class students even came to the commemoration.
Yes, that's me in the photo. Most of the photos of the commemoration was taken by someone else. I was busy passing out plates and chopsticks. OK, I admit I was busy eating too (you can see a bulge in the midsection of mine).
We missionaries were tasked with singing a song while people were eating and chatting. Here we are getting organized to sing "I am a Child of God" in Japanese. Good thing Sister Lee is singing next to me to drown out my poor Japanese pronunciations.
Good thing too is people are far from us so they probably wouldn't hear my mistakes.
Oh by the way, I don't have a copy of the video yet but Sister Lee and I made our acting debut by participating in a video, which was shown at this commemoration. I'll post it if I get a copy. We reenacted a scene as mission president and wife to open the proselyting effort in Kagoshima. The original mission president and wife were Japanese so the video producer casted the parts on us because we looked the part. Believe it or not, it took only 1 take to do our little scene. Either we are natural at acting or the skies look ominous, ready to pour down on us.
No comments:
Post a Comment