Missionary Week #22 - February 11 - February 17, 2019

Missionary Week #22 – February 11 – February 17, 2019

We hope you all had a Fantastic Valentine’s Day!  We saw a few heart shaped boxes of candy…but no big displays – no hearts – they don’t really make a big deal of it!   I was lucky enough to spend the whole day with My Valentine! 

Monday – We went to work and for lunch we went to the Military Archive.  It was a nice walk especially because it wasn’t raining!  The book we ordered was on the shelf waiting for us.  The lady got it and told us to go into the reading room.  The book was in a box for protection.  I started looking through the book – page by page – I found a couple of Carl Johan Carlsson – but they weren’t mine – they didn’t have the right birth date.  I decided since I got more familiar with the book as I went through it, I thought I better go back through the beginning again – and I’m glad I did.  I found him, with the right birth date and place of birth.  So we took the book out and asked to make a copy.  The man helping us turned on a camera that was set up and showed us how to make the copy – but then he did it for us!  We took a copy of the page but it wasn’t close up so we couldn’t really read the writing, so he turned the book and made another copy!  There were two pages that went together – one was the information on the soldier and the next page was a ledger of payment.  So when we had the copies, we asked him to translate the pages for us!   

Spine of the Military Roll Book

Front Cover of the Military Roll Book

Carl Johan Carlsson born the 3^rd of May 1863 in Smedby, Dörby Parish, in Kalmar County.  Father, Jonas Gustaf Carlsson and Mother, Augusta Elisabet (there are some words I’m not sure of and will have to have it re-translated for me – I think it gives the parish where the mother was from) it then mentions a Sister Jenny Elisabet who resides in Germany. The next column is his height 5’ 9.2” The next column is his occupation – and his is “shoes horses”.  

The next column “Gift” says he is married – something I did not know and will have to do more research! The next column says that he was recruited on the 7^th day of March 1883 for 4 years contract.  He has completed that contract.  The next column is his payment in Kroner – Total of 76.66.  Then under his name – there is more – On the 27 of October 1887 he was turned over to the civil authorities (not military) for theft!  Again, something I did not know and I’ll have to look through some court records to see if I can find out why.  It never fails in research you start looking for an answer to a question and you end up with more questions! 

We returned to work after about a 2hr lunch.  We will make that up during the week.  Monday night was the going away “party” for The Whiteheads that we worked with.  It was a great dinner and we got to chat afterward and took pictures and exchanged e-mails!  They were to fly out at 6am to Paris and then after a couple hours layover then straight to Salt Lake City.  We will miss them!

Tuesday – Not to much exciting – Work, lunch, work and we left at 5:30, lots of people on the trains.  Got a couple of Marco Polo’s from two of our daughters and were able to talk to them later that evening. 

Wednesday – We went to work, John and Elder Borg had to move more boxes that showed up! 

Thursday – As we were walking up the sidewalk at work John was able to capture this! 

It was Valentine’s Day and so he surprised me by taking me to lunch!  We went to the “Good Burrito” that we found when we went with the Whiteheads.  It’s like Café Rio only you choose from 3 choices and you get a burrito or salad bowl!  But they are fast, and it is yummy.  We were back to work in 30 minutes.  

Friday – The weeks seem to go by so fast!  We download our folders that we have captured all week and send them on shuttles to Germany – they have to be packaged and UPS has to be called to come pick them up.  Then they are evaluated and then they are sent in to FamilySearch.  We quit work and walked to the Tax place, where we have to get an appointment to get an ID card – with picture.  Then we will be done with our papers to live in Sweden for another year.   Friday 7pm – laundry.  Yeah!  

Saturday – We drove into the Mission Office to pick up a package and get some other errands done.  Then we came home had lunch and got ready to go to a concert at the Stake Center in Gubanngen.  Savannah Stevenson came to Sweden from London to speak to us and have a mini- concert.  Those of you who have seen the Bible Videos put out by the church she is the actress that play’s Mary – Mother of Jesus. She plays in Theatre in England – she’s played Mary Poppins, and Glenda in Wicked. Her voice is beautiful.  If you ever get a chance to see her – you must!  Then we – 4 Senior Couples walked into Gamla Stan – the Old Part of Stockholm and went to eat.    It was a great evening and what was amazing it was about 60* during the day!   

Have a great week - Those in the USA get a holiday on Monday!  We'll be at work!  Love you and miss  you!  John and Linda