offered while serving a Mission
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| Zaylie's Blessing Day |
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| Roz and Andrew's Baptism Day November 6th, 2010 |
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| Christmas Without Family and Snow |
we were able to make the Holidays
A Fun Time for All
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| Before the Tejada's left the mission to return to Arizona and after the Cook's had arrived to take their place We took a city tour of Veracruz atop this bus. |
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| It was fun cruising around the heart of the city |
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| We spotted a Burger King |
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| We saw some wonderful Christmas Decorations This tree was solid poinsettias |
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| Nativity Scenes IN PUBLIC PLACES are everywhere. This one in front of the World Trade Center |
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| Nativities are displayed in almost every store and business |
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| Some of the Obreros got together for a farewell breakfast for the Tejada's at this hotel located near the temple |
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| The Tejada's will certainly be missed |
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| The hotel had a lovely pool overlooking the Gulf |
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| We had seen this walkway across the highway many times, but this was our first walk over it. It is called the "La Puente de Amor" |
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| The Bridge of Love. |
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| We had 164 in attendance at our Obreros Christmas Party. We started by taking group pictures at 3:30, a temple session at 4:00, dinner at 7:00 and program at 8:30. |
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| Presidente Bickmore's 67th Birthday. He loves Peanut Butter, so I made him this peanut butter cookie |
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| Every inch of the temple grounds were decorated. The Garden outside our front door was accended with pink, white and red poinsettias |
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| The Temple's Nativity is very detailed and elegant |
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| It made the decorations on a house near the temple look pretty humble |
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| We were invited to three families homes for Christmas Eve, we made it to two of them. A lovely dinner at 3:00 at Monica's and 7:30 at my best (Mexican) friends casa. Janet (in red), her sister Susie and their mother and father. |
The Yanez's had never been to El Tajin and had a great desire to see the ruins, so as a Christmas present to them, we left after Sacrament Meeting on Sunday the 26 and traveled north. Stayed in a nice Hotel and spent all day Monday at the ruins,(See: December Continued-El Tajin). Returned home Tuesday just in time for the afternoon temple sessions. The temple was open three days, then closed Fri., Dec. 31st until Jan. 18th for its semi-annual cleaning.
We (Hilton's and Bickmores) re-packed our bags and left early Friday morning for the road trip of a life time, thru' the Mountains and into the Jungle of southern Mexico to visit sites inhabited in ancient times by the Jaredites, Nephites and Lamanites. (See: Jan. 2011 Blog)
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| This past year in the Temple has made us feel closer to Heaven (Robert took this picture from the front door of our casa) |
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