Back to the Temple, Thanksgiving and Dinner with Temple President and his wife

This past week we served in the temple Tuesday, Friday and Saturday.  It was wonderful to be back in the Nauvoo Temple.  It is such a beautiful temple.  While the temple was closed, many more beautiful pantings were placed on the interior walls of the temple.  Some of the paintings can only be found in temples, others are well known.

We are missing the 30 temple missionary couples (who were here for six months) who left three weeks ago.  We love them and got to know them very well.  There are 8 more temple missionary couples coming next week and 11 couples are leaving this month.  This is the normal transition of missionaries at this temple.  We will miss those who leave but will grow to know and love those who are coming.

We ate Thanksgiving dinner alone this past week.  This is the first time we have ever done this.  We miss being with our family during this time but enjoy our service at this temple.

Yesterday we had dinner at our Temple President's house.  They (President and Sister Anderson) were very cordial hosts.  We had a very pleasant dinner (and discussion) with them and two other temple missionary couples.  It was wonderful to get to know them better.  Below are pictures of them (with us, and then with all of couples at the dinner).