Reconnecting a Missionary with His Convert from Many Years Ago

Though Grandpa and Grandma Sugawara did not attend church anymore, you could feel their testimonies.  They lived in the same home with their wonderful son and his wife and family (very common in Japan.)  Ken was their home teacher.  One Sunday we went to visit.  We referred to a scripture in the lesson, and she opened her scriptures to find it.  We noticed a picture- a wedding announcement inside.  She said it was the missionary who brought them the gospel many years before.  She said she had not heard from him since receiving his wedding announcement about twenty years ago. 

I suggested that we might be able to find him on facebook.  So we went home and did some looking.  Even though he had a somewhat common name, with information she had given us, and with this picture, Ken found who he was pretty sure was the one we were looking for. So Ken sent a message through facebook to him.   It took quite a while, but he eventually checked facebook and was overwhelmed and delighted to find Ken's message.  He wrote back, sending pictures of  his time in Tsuruoka and the baptisms and the conversion story as he remembered it.  He sent pictures of his family now and a message to the Sugawaras.  Here are some of the pictures he sent:

Brother Sugawara's baptsim

Brother Sugawara bearing testimony

Sister Sugawara's baptism

Their son's baptism

The missionary's happy family now.

Though his version and  Sister Sugawar's versions of the conversion story were slightly different, their conversion was a true miracle.  Sister Sugawara had seen two young men in a dream and felt that they had a gift for her and that she should accept their gift.  Shortly thereafter, this elder and his companion stopped by and she said they could come back later and teach her.  She listened to their message and knew it was true. 
It was a sweet experience to reconnect a missionary with their convert from many years ago.