“Then I was so angered that I decided to dive and empty my machine funs, but I was really disgusted when my guns wouldn’t shoot. I felt a strange felling come over me. I tried to more times, but the bomb would not fall and the funs would not shoot.

“I began to fear that I

would run out of fuel, so I tried a desperate try, and I even thought I would suicide dive my plane into the building. But my controls would not work. They just were stiff (or frozen) and I could not dive.

“I then had great fear, and I realized A STRANGE POWER PROTECTED THAT WHITE BUILDING WITH BLUE POOLS.

“Less than two minutes later when I was out over the sea, I dropped by bomb and shot my guns, but I had hit nothing. I felt disgraced that I used my bomb for nothing, and I could not report my failure and strange story. So since my plane was not operating perfectly I though I would go back and try to empty my guns into the mysterious building with its magic power.

“But as I tried to turn around and go back, again my controls would not respond to my commands, and I felt a powerful influence and I felt I had angered God.”

The missionaries told him that the reason he couldn’t destroy the temple was because it truly was the house of the lord.

He said “It has a giant magic power that protects it. You two missionaries make me fell those feelings again. You must leave me along and not torment my mind and heart. Please excuse me, I am very busy.”

Elder Stout says he did not really understand what Mr. O Gawa had said at the door. (“Mo kekko desu”). He thought it meant “come in” but found out later that it meant “No thanks”. He was grateful he had not understood, or they would not have h3eard this marvelous testimony of how the Lord protects His Holy House.