We arrived back in Calgary on August 20, 2018.  Friends and relatives were there to greet us.

We left our apartment on Sunday, August 19 to spend the night in the Hotel Jen, close to the airport.  On the way we stopped at the Mission Home and took pictures with Pres and Sis Hughes.

This is a beautiful souvenir of our mission.  It was given to us by

 Pres and Sister Hughes on August 15, 2018.

This is our Novaliches Zone taken today Aug 14,2018. It is our last zone/ district meeting. We will miss all the wonderful Elders and Sisters.

Even though this is the rainy season, there has been a surfeit of rain in the last week.  Flooding has occurred in many areas of the mission.  This is a video that Ken took at the front of our apartment.

   

Security guards are stationed in many places here.  They inspect your purse and person at every entrance to a mall.  They're stationed in a "guard shack" at the entry of every housing development. 
Since we've been here for a year we've made friends with many of them. 
This is Pathricia Pondug, a security guard for The Redwoods.

The guard at MacDonalds, where we buy our Monday breakfast of Egg-de-sol.

The guards at the entry of Redwoods

The regular way to describe people you graduate with from schooling, go with to the MTC, go with into the mission field is to describe the groups as a "BATCH".  Thus the missionaries who left on August 8 were the August Batch. We were included with them, even though we're leaving on the 20th.

This is a photo of the August Batch, taken the day that they left.

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Elder Bryan, with whom we have worked closely was also transferred on that same day.