Two-year Anniversary of being in El Salvador...
    Saturday, July 20, 2013

Yes, we arrived July 20, 2011...

Presidente Jaime y Hna. Gladis López met us at the El Salvador Airport and Hna. López handed me a bouquet of flowers...it was raining...  I just now checked my planner page for that day.  I have we got to the Salt Lake City Airport that morning at 6:30.  I think we landed about 6:30 that evening and it was an hour drive into the temple grounds.  I also have written on that page: 
"Day 1 of 1,198 days or 170 weeks, or 39.5 months."
    ...and now we're down to 15 months.

They took us and our luggage to our new, beautiful temple president's apartment on the second floor of the temple complex building...

Then we wanted to go see  the temple even though we were tired from our full day of travel.  I didn't get a photo that night of the temple but here is the one we took our first Sunday night in this beautiful Central America country.

Our view of the new San Salvador El Salvador Temple the next morning from our terrace patio...

We got in on the last three days of the Temple Open House...

I'll have to ask Walt how many visitors came to the 3-week Open House. (Later) He told me they published that 160,000 came to the Open House.

We have had wonderful temple missionaries to work with...
The Walls, Kitleys, Thompsons, and Gibbons arrived Aug 17, 2011.
Kitleys y Gibbons finished their 18-months on Jan. 25, 2013. The Walls finished their 22 months on May 18, 2013. The Thompsons finished their 23 months on June 25, 2013.
   We miss them but know they are on to other callings in their lives now.

Elder Gibbons must have been taking the photo above...
Here are Gibbons at the first breakfast they cooked of homemade biscuits topped with strawberries 'n whipped cream for all of us in the seven apartments in the temple complex building.

We've also had great counselors in the temple presidency and their wives to work with during these two years...
Presidente y Hna. Majano and Presidente y Hna. Alas... (They are standing on the right--The Alas together in the middle, and The Majanos on each end.)

And now we have new temple missionaries who have come to help carry on in the temple here...
The Clarks...arrived Feb. 28, 2013

The Winters and the Haroldsens...arrived June 13, 2013
The Caballeros are scheduled to come from Canada on Aug. 15, 2013. They are originally from El Salvador.

Hope you have had a peaceful Sabbath Day.
We are thankful for this beautiful earth that Heavenly Father has created for us to live on.
We pray that we may be good stewards of places we live at on our planet.
      We are thankful for life and for being together in this calling in the San Salvador El Salvador Temple.