Nativities

Right after Thanksgiving we were assigned to set up 2 life size nativities, one at the Palmyra Temple and one at the Hill Cumorah.  The nativities are stored in one of two huge barns the church owns on the other side of the Sacred Grove.  The stables are heavy and awkward, but not to worry.  The church has all the equipment that these guys need to move anything.  Here we see the second stable being "carried" by this piece of equipment in order to be placed on the "tippy trailer" and transported to it's display site.

 

Didn't take too much time to get both stables loaded.

 

Here you see the "tippy trailer" and truck moving on down the road in front of us.  The Smith Family Farm is in this picture on the left.

Once the bases and stables were in place, we put down a sheet of "lawn" and lots of straw.  We put netting over the straw because the wind here is so strong that the straw could be gone in an hour or so.  Here's Elder Poulson spreading the straw.

 

So many statues of such sizes took a few trips.  Here we see 2 Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus statues on the "tippy trailer".  Just one goes here boys.

 

I took lots and lots of pictures, but too many to put on the blog.  Here's the final picture for the nativity on "The Hill".  It was bitter cold with a biting wind that day.  Can you tell that I'm determined NOT to be cold?