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any unofficial non-Japanese. And though the persecution comes in many forms at
home,
I am DEEPLY GRATEFUL that you Brethren and Co-Workers of God's Church have deep
LOVE
for me, and you have certainly proved that. I love and pray for you
continually.
LATER: In flight back home, April 29.
I have now had private personal meetings with the last four Prime Ministers
of
Japan.
Perhaps the most important news that I can give you of this trip is that
definite
plans are now under way for me to make an official visit to COMMUNIST CHINA--
officially
the Peoples' Republic of China--in company with two or three of the highest
members
of the Japanese Diet. Two of the high-ranking members of Japan's law-making
Diet are
definitely working on arrangements. The trip will be made in our own G-II jet,
and
probably in August. Private meetings are being set up with the Communist Party
Chairman
and Prime Minister Hua Guofeng, and the Deputy Prime Minister Ding Xiaoping.
As you know, I have been waiting a long time for the HEAD of our Church,
Jesus
Christ, to open doors--IF He wanted His Apostle to go to the LEADERS of China
and the
Soviet Union. Of course, I can't know yet what Christ may have in mind, but He
is
able to open doors wherever He wants me to go as His ambassador and Apostle.
Plans are now being made for a visit with the government heads and many
other
leaders in a country I have never yet visited--Tunisia, on the southern shore of
the
Mediterranean Sea, east of Egypt. (I already have had a personal meeting with
President
Sadat of Egypt.)
Before leaving Japan on this present trip, I had further meetings with a
few
other Japanese leaders.
This has certainly been a very successful trip. We are now on the descent
for
a refueling at Cold Bay, Alaska--the furthermost western tip of Alaska, where
the
Aleutian Islands virtually join up with Alaska at its farthest western tip.
I close asking you to continue your earnest and fervent prayers for me and
the Work.
With deep love, in Jesus' name,