Then our May girls had birthdays...
Baya Maree turned two and Brooklyn Marlee celebrated birthday #4!

BIRTHDAYS, BIRTHDAYS and more BIRTHDAYS!
Seems like ever since our return from Myanmar, we've been spending lots of fun time celebrating birthdays....

Noah Wayne turned 7

and Gwenyth Jean turned 7 too!

Two New Grandboys!!
In the past four months we've been blessed by the births of two beautiful grandsons.  The first was to Aaron and Ann in December and the most recent, was the birth of a bouncing baby boy to Kirk and Brynne.

 OH HOW WE LOVED OUR ADVENTURE IN MYANMAR!
We had a wonderful training class composed of 15 of the hardest working people on the planet.

 We attended the Yangon Branch and enjoyed the musical number presented by the Primary children and their teachers.

The darling girl in the red sweater, Olive, served a mission in Idaho and knew my cousins the Merkley's when they served their mission in Myanmar.

Our dear friend, Andy Schnebly, was Kim's co-trainer.











Sister Haymore was a good sport and helped with the "measuring" module.

We fell in love with this young man named Martin who helped us with translation and a myriad of other tasks.

 I celebrated my 59th birthday in the company of Kim, Andy, E/S Haymore and E/S Hobbs.  It was great!!!

We had just enough time to make a quick trip to see the Shwedagon temple in the heart of Yangon.  What an amazing and fascinating city.

What could be better than a Grandparents Day with our beautiful granddaughter Gwenyth?!

 She's such a smart little First-grader and we love her
so very much.   She's as sweet as she is darling and we're proud of all her accomplishments.

We enjoyed having lunch with her at the school cafeteria, browsing books at the Book Fair, then having her take us on a tour of her classroom.

The Philippines...Re-visited!
It's been almost two years since we've been in the Philippines and we feel blessed to have been able to return and work with Dennis and Donna Smith who were the Humanitarian couple here back in 2011.  We've just completed one training with a wonderful group down in Selang who were primarily Seventh-Day Adventists. They were wonderful to work with and we saw some extremely dedicated individuals who have a great desire to help the disabled and do God's work for the poor.

Training in Bangkok Completed

23 wonderful and enthusiastic people donated 3 days of their valuable time to come to our wheelchair training in Bangkok. 

Our translator was a beautiful young mom named Isrin O'Connor.

Sister Noorda getting the class members registered

Our darling co-trainer, Kristie Beddes

This elderly woman, a double amputee, was thrilled to have a new wheelchair.

 This sweet woman cried through the whole assessment process because she was so happy and grateful.

Three Trainings in Thailand

We're excited to be in Thailand again working with Elder and Sister Noorda to do three wheelchair trainings in ChiangMai, Bangkok and Ubon.  We've traveled here with Matt and Kristie Beddes from Farmington.  Matt is a PT who did a training with us in Malaysia last year and his wife is a PT Assistant.  Matt served a mission here 20 years ago and now he and Kristie will take over Thailand as the Wheelchair Specialists going forward.

Our first training was completed yesterday here in ChiangMai.  We were so blessed to have Elder and Sister Treasure join us from the Asia Area office and have enjoyed being with them tremendously!!!!

Love the Elders.  This young man is from Lehi.

Elder and Sister Treasure posing with President Ken who was

 our terrific translator.

Major Sirichai (center)and his organization is one of the LDSC partners for these trainings. 

A super happy wheelchair recipient.