Leaving Calgary & The MTC Provo Experience




Elder & Sister Leary with a little luggage at the Calgary Airport



Mark & Chad at 6am at the Calgary Airport making sure we leave on our mission--Chad served a Mission in Guam Micronesia and Mark served in the Canada Halifax Mission

Sunrise from the flight out of Calgary on a snowy wintery day when we left.

Elder Scott Cook from Sandy, Utah dropping us off at the MTC in Provo after picking us up at the Salt Lake Airport.  Elder Cook, along with Elder Smith from Pleasant Grove, Utah and Elder West from Chelmsford Essex, near London, England, taught us the gospel in 1979 in the Parkland Ward, Calgary.  We have kept in contact with all three of our missionaries and their families over the years.  It has been a great blessing to us to have their continued association in our lives.

Our missionaries--Elder Cook on the left with his wife Sherri and Elder Smith on the right with his wife Kim

Cemetery in Salt Lake City with family plots where President Faust and his wife are also buried

The gravesite of President Faust and His Wife in Salt Lake Cemetery

Our daughter Joanna & her husband Russell and five of seven children at the MTC. Both Joanna & Russell served in the England Manchester Mission 

Sister Reece--a great trainer (morning) in our district at the MTC and Elder & Sister Moser called to Houston, Texas--MLS

Our MTC District & Afternoon Trainer--Elder Woods III, another great trainer
From Left to Right: Nielson's--S. Africa Johannesburg, Regional PEF Support; Leary's--India Bangalore (Chennai), FH; Cliffton's--West Virginia Charlston, MLS; Cook's--Massachusetts Boston--Church Archives; Moser's--Texas Houston, MLS

Elder & Sister Robinson will be serving in Canada Toronto Mission--CES. Out of 126 senior missionaries, only one other couple is going to Canada

Elder & Sister Leary and our destination--Bangalore & Chennai, Southern India

We did a session at the Provo MTC Temple after all our training had concluded--beautiful temple and celestial room with wonderful pictures of the Savior



 

 

Calgary Temple Open House 2012

Calgary Temple Open House: Between Sept 26th and Oct 20th 100,135 visitors attended the tours. We had good weather except for the last day with a little snow. Margaret and I were privileged to conduct several tours and it was an awesome experience. To see the expressions on the faces of the little children in awe and the many tears being shed by adults as they felt the spirit of the Lord in His House--especially in the sealing rooms, was an experience I shall never forget.

Royal Oak Chapel and beginning of tent walkway to the Temple. We had good weather except for the last day with a little snow.

The tent walkway again--useful if inclement weather.