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Orion Wood
August 5, 2007
Wade,
Thanks for the great work -- amazing! I have been browsing the site, and it is most interesting. President Andersen's Okinawa experience, the first parts of Dee Groberg's thesis, the letter to you from Andrus-Dendobuchou, etc., took me back to my mission days (1957-60). NOTE: (There is something wrong with the Shirley Yonemori letter; it will not display. All I see is your intro (at least in Firefox).)
I was in Provo for the Family History Conference last week, and am in Salt Lake until August 9. Wayne Summers sent the note on the Tatsui Sato biography, and I called Sister Sato about getting a book.
When we talked about me picking up the Sato biography, I told her I would get it on the way to the Family History Library on Saturday. She told me she wanted to go the Family History Library, so I took here there yesterday, and I am taking her and a Japanese sister at her retirement home to Dai Ichi Ward this morning.
It
was fun to talk to her in Japanese, but since she is totally bilingual,
we use either. I did not know about her, and that she was from Wyoming,
living there until she was fifteen, then going back to Japan. What a
trial it must have been learning Japanese as a teen-ager. She told me
it took her seven years.
I was in Japan for 12 days in May, and I wrote a journal of my visit. I
took my eldest son (inactive), and we had a great time. If you are
interested, I will send it to you. I was amazed that I was still fluent
at age 71 (I took my Ei-Wa and Wa-Ei dictionaries and hardly opened
them.)
Orion
P.S. Did you ever serve in Kanazawa? We visited there in May. And I served in Tokyo North, Tokyo West, Niigata, Nishinomiya, and finished in Okamachi. Companions I recall I had are Robert Hall, Garth Leishman, Yoshio Shigoka, Takahashi (Canada), Kenneth Orton, Colldene Morse, Norman Tong and Paul Holbrook. There may be others.
Orion Wood
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