Osaka

Food vendors outside the palace

The palace outside our hotel window

Temple

Back the Jennings from Pusan and us

Front Elder and Sister Choi & Pres. & Sister Lee from Seoul

This monk was just finishing reading his prayers

Shinto Temple at Nara

Members of the Area Presidency and staff from Tokyo I am standing next to Elder Stephenson, the Area President

part of the thousands of lanterns

Sister Jennings from Pusan. They will finish in July. She was realy fun to be with, and we plan on spending a day shopping in Seoul. Her son was the big Jeoperdy winner a few years ago.

Buddhist Temple

This covers a large wooden Buddha Most of these people are mission presidents, wives, and area presidency

Guards of the Buddha

Buddhist Temple Deer

The legend is that the emperor came riding into this area on a deer. They now keep herds of deer on the grounds. Elder Choi

They seel little waffers to feed the deer

Osaka, Japan

The palace by our hotel

This moat was to protect the palace. It is feed by four other rivers that flow in. We did a small river curise around this area Typical....Mom dressed as if it were mid winter.