Someone's turning 63!

Bob and I had a wonderful day together celebrating his 63rd birthday.  We spent several hours at the Guadalajara zoo.  It is such a well designed zoo, we've been several times already and really looked forward to another trip there.

We especially love the giraffes, as you will see.  Here are some of the highlights of our fun day together.

#favorite picture

great day.

Happy Birthday to my sweetheart!

Happy Valentines Day to us!

We had a wonderful day here in Manzanillo today.  We had our interviews with the Manzanillo zone followed by divisions with some of our missionaries.
We had a lovely dinner on the marina this evening, late and walked along the docks.
I love my sweetheart Bob.
Happy Valentine's Day to us!  :)
 Our view this morning!

On our way to our Manzanillo interviews

this morning

Our Mission Tour with Elder Pino

What a marvelous few days we have had with Elder and Sister Pino.
We have been so honored to have them accompany us throughout our mission, and greet our missionaries.
Elder Pino has been so kind in his remarks to us as he has observed us teaching and leading discussions with our missionaries.  We have traveled with he and his wife for many hours together in our car.  We have visited and enjoyed each others company as we have shared about our families, our children and grandchildren, our life's work, and experiences. What a treasured memory.  President and Sister Pino are from Venezuela and with President Clayton having served there during his first mission, they had much in common as they visited and connected together.
We have been very privileged to have him teach our missionaries.  He has been a dynamic and strong teacher and leader.  We have learned much.

Here are some pictures over the past few days.
We love these two!

Here we are in Colima with our Colima, Guzman, and Manzanillo zones

The next day, we drove to Tepic.

What a marvelous drive that was!

President Clayton and I will not soon

forget this experience!

Here we are with our Tepic, Santiago and Vallarta zones

Next, we traveled back to Guadalajara

and met with our Lomas, Union and 

Independencia zones

73 missionaries in all!

What a group!

I love both of these pictures, and couldn't decide 

which one to add..

A quick seat change to sit by and remember

sweet Sister Pino.

President Clayton and Elder Pino role playing.

President Pino's object lesson,

Where do we find ourselves in this picture?

Are we pushing or pulling the work along?

Are we sitting casually, or distracting others?

What is our goal moving forward?

Dinner together

And finally, our Mission Council 

with Elder and Sister Pino

(why did that gust of wind catch only my hair??)

Sister Pino snapped this picture of me teaching

in mission council and texted it to me.

Elder Pino's closing remarks

Elder Pino's goodbye.