David's Adventures in the Japan Kobe Mission (Oct. 2015-2017)

World's longest suspension bridge in Kobe, Japan.

Sunday, October 18, 2015

Konichiwa,

I'm alive and well. It's been awesome today! I'm going to be able to email on Thursday which is my P-day. I love you guys!

David

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4-6-28 Shinohara Honmachi

Nada-Ku, Kobe-Shi, Hyogo-Ken

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Map of Mission Areas

Map of Mission Areas

Map of Mission Areas

Kobe Mission Mark (Symbol)

Kobe Mission Mark (Symbol)

Note: President Packer talked about the Kobe mark in Zone Conferences in late 1984. (Previous to that time, there had not been so much emphasis on the actual Kobe city symbol as the mission mark.) At that series of Zone conferences, President Packer discussed the Kobe mark and the scripture in Ether as described below. (It was also at that time that President Packer announced that the mark would be made into a tie tack or necklace available as a memento for returning missionaries.) Source: The Kobe Mark (from Paradigms, newsletter of the Japan Kobe Mission 83-86) -- Grant Denton ('85-'87, DGrantAmy@aol.com) and Todd W Furniss (tjfurn@juno.com) On the side of the mountains overlooking the city of Kobe is the Kobe mark or anchor. At night you can see it outlined in lights, and by day depicted by beautiful green shrubbery. For many years there were two ports in the Kobe area. One was Hyogo port, the other was the port of Kobe. Standing on the mountains above and between the two ports, looking down, the curvature of the shoreline and the ocean between the two ports resembles the joining of two "ogi" or fans, as symbolized in the joining of the two half circles depicted in the Kobe mark. Also, in ancient Japan, Kobe was called and pronounced "Kaube". The early configuration of the katakana character "ka" is the same as the Kobe mark. Ancient Japanese ships that anchored in the harbor at Kobe used an anchor shaped very much like the Kobe mark. This mark or "anchor" has since become a symbol of the city of Kobe. In Ether 12:4 we read the following: "Wherefore, whoso believeth in God might with surety hope for a better world, yea, even a place at the right hand of God, which hope cometh of faith, maketh an anchor to the souls of men, which would make them sure and steadfast, always abounding in good works, being led to glorify God." What could better represent the hope of each Kobe Missionary to become "sure" and "steadfast" to abound in "good works", and to "glorify God" than a replica of the Kobe mark? Its something to represent what one of the greatest groups of young men and women in the world want to become.

Map of Japan Kobe Mission

Map of Japan Kobe Mission

Mission Presidents

Mission Presidents

Phillip K. Welch and Julie Nelson Welch have five children and ten grandchildren. They moved to Kobe, to serve as Mission President and wife, in June 2014 from Tokyo, Japan. They originally moved from Utah to Tokyo in 1998 and have lived there off and on ever since. President Welch has served as a Stake President in Tokyo, a Bishop in Tokyo and at BYU, a ward Young Men’s President, a counselor in a bishopric twice in Orem, Utah, and as a former Counselor in the Japan Tokyo South Mission. He served a mission to the Japan Kobe Mission. He and Sister Welch also served together as seminary teachers. He was born in Provo, Utah to Keith W. and Veda Renae Reid Welch. Sister Welch grew up in Las Vegas, Nevada. She graduated from BYU in 2010 with a degree in literature. She is a former Stake Primary President, served twice as a Counselor in Stake Young Women's, various positions in Relief Society, and twice as Primary Chorister - regardless of her lack of musical ability. She loved teaching seminary with President Welch. She was born in Mt. Pleasant, Utah to Glen C. and June Allen Nelson.

Japan LDS Statistics (2015)

Church Membership: 127,635
Missions: 7
Temples: 2
Congregations: 267
Family History Centers: 63

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