Decorating the Church Administration Building

And of course the day after Thanksgiving means Christmas is in full gear! Some things are the same the world over. And so we decorated the CAB the day after Thanksgiving. The employees were off at 4pm so that they could help. The facilities group brought all the decorations over ahead of time and delivered them to the different areas to be ready. They not only delivered everything, they actually set up the big nativity scene the day before and had it ready to be simply carried in through the front door and set up.

Left to right - Forever, Tony and Leo.

Moving the nativity into place.

Many hands make work light and that is exactly what happened. The biggest jobs were the nativity scene and the main floor tree. We had about 12 white shirts with black badges all working on it at one time. Many of the decorations had broken hangers and someone actually had a glue gun and several of the employees patiently glued new hangers on them.

The Oakes and Sister Ferguson making a plan.

Most of the hard work was finished by 7:30, but a small committee of sisters decided that the tree on the 1st floor was not quite up to snuff and needed to be changed. So after a little measuring and a lot of un-decorating, we took the 6th floor tree down to the first floor and traded trees. We spent way tooo much time working on the lights, but finally it was finished, and was much prettier than it had been.

Elder Smith supervising?

After a quick dinner at the new Burger King (yes, it’s finally open, and only a block from our apartment) we finally made it home - at 9pm. And we thought decorating our house was a lot of work!

Elder and Sister Hallstrom directing traffic.