SHARING CHRISTMAS SEASON

Sunday evening we took Bill and Esther with us for the Cantata at Calvary Baptist Church.  We got to enjoy some good music with a great message, as well as a cookie and fellowship afterward.  We got our Associate Pastor to share a look at his pictures from his recent Elk Hunt.  We will share that picture with you later after he sends us a copy.  I am sure that it will help feed his family of eight nicely all winter.

A very nice presentation of piano Christmas music,
with some awesome pictures.  I wish I had been
fast enough to get some of the mountain shots.

Our interim Pastor Bauder is in the back on the right.
He is a very knowledgeable teacher.  That is what kept us
at this church when we were church hunting.
The regular pastor retired because of some serious
health issues recently.

Regular pastor's wife who also plays organ each Sunday.

Then last evening we all went to the LDS Temple for their Christmas Light Display and some wonderful music.  They have done this for the community for 36 years now.  And they have a different music group to perform each evening of December.  Last evening was the Mesa High School Choir.  They were awesome!!  We just may have to go back another evening to hear another group.  It is a thirty minute presentation which is just right for the cold weather that we are having. Gary had to go get some towels that we keep in the car to cover things to keep them from view.  They worked well to help keep us warm.
They also have a display of Nativities from around the world inside their Visitor Center.  We did not get to see those as we did not want to wait in the long line.  So we will do that another evening also.
Enjoy the lights as much as we did.

Their Temple built in 1924 - 1927
One of the very early buildings in Mesa,
which was founded by Mormons.

Visitor Center in front of the Temple

The clusters of lights made this so awesome!!
Notice the Palms.

Camel display on the front lawn by Main Street

I will have to look for these lights in the stores.
Very pretty clustered this way.

I think that the clusters in these trees were strings
of twenty lights.

We saw this display at Holy Land Experience
in Orlando on a larger scale.
It makes it so much easier to understand the
descriptions in scripture about Jerusalem.

We need a closer picture of this statue of Christ.
It is a copy of one that stands in Denmark.

Guess they get snow this far south here in Arizona,
occasionally.

The three girls in the center were very gifted sopranos
and the gentleman to their left, your right,
was also a very good soloist.

You can see what I mean about the lighting.

The drummers were great in their part also.

We were at the back of the crowd, so our pictures were quite a stretch.  The lighting, of course, always makes the people too light most of the time.  But were happy with our few good shots.
Hope that you enjoyed them as much as we did!!
MERRY CHRISTMAS to all of you this wonderful season!!