Christmas at our casa (house)

We received a very special Christmas card from the First Presidency.
This painting was new to us, we love it!

Flowers and flower vendors abound everywhere.
Elder D couldn't resist this unusual and beautiful arrangement, it stood 3 feet tall.
We enjoyed it all through the Christmas holiday.

Christmas Festivities on the Temple Grounds and at the Area Offices

President Amado gave the key note address opening the week long Christmas festivities on Temple Square.

Sister D played for this delightful children's choir from wards throughout the Santiago area.

Nativity scenes were placed all around the Temple grounds. Elder D took advantage of this still, real life nativity scene. Literally hundreds of nativity scenes were loaned from people all over Santiago and were beautifully displayed in rooms on the second floor of the meeting house. They represented traditional Christmas nativities from all over the world.

These are some of the special Hermanas who were trained to take tours of the temple grounds during the holidays. Four of this group were from our mission. Their homelands were USA, Dominican Republic, Colombia and El Salvador.

Elder D and I wanted to bring a Christmas treat for everyone.
We worked together to make enough "dulces" for everyone.
They made a pretty favor, too!

Senior couple from Texas, the B's

177 of us!

Yumminess everywhere!

Los Asistentes

A few of our wonderful missionaries!

Here are some of the dessert options at the
church office employee's Christmas luncheon

The church cultural hall is turned into a beautiful dining room.
The food was not only beautiful, but delicious. Yummy appetizers, salad, salmon, beef, pork and chicken; veggies potatoes, and bread.

Every Monday morning at 8am there is a church offices employee devotional. I play the prelude and the opening hymn every 3rd Monday. This particular day was the Christmas devotional held just before the employee Christmas luncheon. I had been practicing with an office choir of about 12 voices, a quartet. They sang 3 lovely numbers, two of which I had never heard: Night of All Nights, and a Polish lullabye, Lulajze Jesuniu, in polish, for which I had to make a piano accompaniment.

Doing my job.

The chapel filled completely eventually.

Chatting with the choir director, KM

Setting up for the summer evening Christmas concert
in the parking lot of the stake center in JC