Happy New Year, From Japan!!

Hi, all. As always thanks for all the help and support. We spent New Year’s Day with members and investigators Japanese style. We visited, played games, and took turns making a special O-Mochi using the ancient method of pounding a special South East Asian kind of partially-cooked, sticky rice, then forming the resulting paste into cakes using rice flour and/or soy-bean flour, and optionally including sweetened bean filling. The stone bowl weighed a ton. Delicious. Another tradition is to visit the local shrine. A bell is sounded with 108 gongs to conquer 108 sins listed in Buddhist writings.
Love, Keith (Dad, and Grandpa)