Temple Missionary Christmas Dinners

Our monthly Temple Missionary Conference was held on December 17, and as usual, we were in charge of the table decorations and dinner. We had a Christmas theme. Here Beverly finishes setting the last of the tables:

A close up of the Christmas table settings:

We had a great selection of food, including these salads:

... and desserts:

Seated at one of the tables were, from left to right, Brother and Sister Lloyd, Brother and Sister Duarte, and Brother and Sister Blesa:

And at another table, Sister Hernández, Brother and Sister Eby, and Brother and Sister Salas:

This is a picture of the entire group of temple missionaries at the dinner on December 17, 2012:

1 Sister de Schweinitz (California); 2-3 Sister and President Somoza (1st Counselor in the Temple Presidency; Spain), 4-5 President and Sister Tenney (Temple President and matron, Utah); 6-7 President and Sister Paya (2nd Counselor Temple, France), 8 Sister Rol (Holland); 9-10 Scott and Beverly (Utah); 11-12 Brother and Sister Alfonso (Spain); 13-14 Brother and Sister Conesa (France); 15-16 Brother and Sister Eastman (Idaho); 17-18 Brother and Sister Duarte (Spain); 19 Sister Hernández (Spain); 20-21  Brother and Sister Pérez (Spain); 22 Sister López (Spain); 23-24 Brother and Sister Eby (Utah); 25-26 Brother and Sister Salas (Spain); 27-28 Brother and Sister Blesa (Spain); 29-31 Daniel Gutiérrez y Brother and Sister Gutiérrez (Spain); and 32-33 Brother and Sister Lloyd (Arizona and Italy)

President Tenney prepares the ham for serving:

The Duartes brought this interesting and good-tasting mussel-on-the-half-shell:

President Tenney begins the dinner with a few words (to the right of him are Sister Rol and Sister Hernández and Brother Gutiérrez:

Beverly and Sister Eby pose in their look-alike outfits (a coincident):

The wonderful selection of food:

Scott's plate of food (he was daring and tried nearly everything):

A group of temple missionaries at one of the tables:

Scott and Beverly pose for a picture in their apartment on Christmas Day:

It was special a Christmas with our adopted "family" of fellow temple missionaries.