Our Outreach activities are in this month's Liahona

Hi all. Thanks for the news and support. The items and support for our Primary kids have been particularly wonderful. We made this month's Liahona, and are pushing and pushing. During our Sunday School genealogy class, today, our teacher, Brother Miyase, was helping prepare some genealogy for temple work by computer-entering Shinto Shrine records dating ~740 a.d. He was working on the 43rd generation back. The Shinto records were in beautiful brush-based kanji, some of which have expired and now take specialists to read and understand. When one joins the church, it can mean several hundred go through the temple. Pretty neat. Love, Keith
The couple standing with us in front of the bushes are the Oyama's. They were called to work with the outreach center and with us right from the first meeting in January. They are both retired school teachers and incredibly wonderful to be with. They seem to know just the right thing to say to help investigators to feel at home. They help teach missionary lessons and are a tremendous asset to the young missionaries. ("How was the lesson?" "Brother Oyama was terrific. He talked to him like a dad and really helped him see things in just the right way.") They are both very athletic. Br Oyama is an expert in ping pong and Sister Oyama's speciality is 'soft tennis'--an indoor sport. She is also very good at badminton and makes our badminton nights a lot more fun for everyone. Br Oyama is very protective of the ping pong table. We can use it for other purposes than ping pong if we put a tablecloth down and also trays under anything hot. He had the YSA running back and forth from the kitchen bringing trays and saucers and whatever else they could find so that the ping pong table was protected at our Thanksgiving dinner last week.
I really can't say enough good things about this couple. Sister Oyama has been a member about 18 months, so we were able to go with them when they received their temple sealing. We hope they can visit us in Utah. We hope many Japanese saints get to visit us in Utah, actually.