I am not sure what all the criteria are to qualify as a stake. This area is supposedly fairly close to getting big enough to become a stake. So instead of a stake conference, this was a District Area Conference. The conference consisted of a leadership meeting at 3 p.m. Saturday, November 1, 2019, and a 6 p.m. general meeting the same evening. On Sunday, there was another general meeting at 10 a.m. Being the only person in the area with a car provided by the mission, chauffeuring Mission President Mack and Sister Mack is one of my responsibilities. When I talked with President Mack, he said he had a meeting with District Area President Funakura at 1 p.m. so they were going to be arriving between 12:15 to 12:30. Sister Lee checked the shinkansen schedule and determined the most likely shinkansen they are on will arrive at 12:35. We drove to the usual pick up spot and waited. 12:45 p.m. came and still no Macks. I phoned and found out they missed the shinkansen. I asked if they need me to contact President Funakura to let him know that they'll be late for his 1 p.m. appointment. He said no need because Pres. Funakura is standing right next to him at the Fukuoka train station, who had also missed the train. Since Pres. Funakura was there and he had his car near the Kagoshima train station, they can ride together up to the church so I was free to go straight to the church. To the parking attendants at the church parking lot, boy were they surprised when I pulled up and there was no Pres. Mack with us. The 3 p.m. meeting started on time without the Macks and Pres. Funakura, knowing that they would be about 15 minutes late. The photos below were taken at the end of the Sunday session by Sister Kanai Johnson, who is a very good friend of Mayumi Kwok, mother of our daughter-in-law Marsa. She is from Kagoshima area and was visiting from Seattle, WA.
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