Despedia (Goodbye)

Felix Gil, Legal Coordinator, Karina Moscoso, Legal Coordinator, Elder and Sister Pratt, us and Gordon Foote, Areal Legal Counsel.

Saying good bye and going home is not an easy thing to do. This is the legal department at a going home lunch in our honor at a very nice restaurant with great Peruvian food.

Another picture of the legal group following a reception for us with the area office employees. We were grateful to those who put these events together!

There were some other tender good byes with friends from Pathway and the temple (of which we failed to get pictures, but people we care for dearly and will never forget).

As a parting gift Felix Gil, the legal coordinator, and Gordon Foote, the Area Legal Counsel,  on behalf of the department, gave me the original title document for the temple property in Quito, Ecuador, a project I had worked since the day I arrived in Peru and which was finally completed the month before we went home. It was a very nice and much appreciated gift. It meant a lot to me. (While it is the actual, original title, not a copy, don't worry, there are more than one original and what is important is what is shown in the title records).

Back home (photo and sign courtesy of Daniel and Syndee).  Leaving our mission in Peru was hard.  There were just lots of details to take care of -- like packing and getting rid of the stuff we didn't want to bring back.  But more than that it was hard to say good bye and to leave a life we were so intensely involved in with so many people we were so closely connected to.