Missionary Week #24
February 25 - March 2, 2019
We started off our week with beautiful weather – still a bit
chilly, it’s in the low 30s*F. It is lighter day by day. Last week you saw the picture of the sunrise
at work. The sun is now coming up while
we are on our way to work. If there are
clouds (which there usually are) it can be a real pretty sight.
Monday – We were at work by 7ish and worked until
12:30pm. We needed to get ink for the
printer and copy paper and a few other office supplies, so we walked into town
a little and found the Office Depot!
They had everything we needed but the ink! So we ordered it and the man said it would be
in on Wednesday. We found an Indian restaurant
close by and had Chicken Sambroal? It
had 2 chili peppers by the name on the menu- so we thought we might be ok! It was pretty good. It was hot – our noses ran – so it had to be
good! Back to work and then home at 4pm.
We went for groceries tonight
because we were out of a lot of things!
Tuesday – Normal day at work – we came home had a quick
dinner and headed to the Mission Office for our Senior Couple’s Family Home
Evening Group. This was our first
meeting and we had 3 couples there. The
rest were busy getting new missionaries settled in and missionaries leaving
ready to go home! Anyway, we had a great
time getting to know each other a little better – and a good lesson on Self
Reliance. We played a game and had
Gelato for dessert, and we will meet again next month!
Wednesday - We left
real early and made it to work before 7!
John walked over to get the ink from Office Depot – but it hadn’t come
in! So he walked around some more and
found what we needed. At lunch it’s been
fun to look out the big windows of the cafeteria and see all of the happenings
and the SUN! There was a “Baby parade” –
not really but there were 3 sets of 2 baby carriages – (they look like the old
baby carriage) Mom’s out walking with friends all in a line!
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| 2 washers one dryer |
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| Big Hanging Dryer |
Thursday – We had a normal day at work – and came home and
we lost our Friday Night slot this week for laundry – so we had to do laundry
tonight. We have the slot for next Friday
already set so we’ll be back on schedule.
(I miss my kitchen and my laundry room)
Friday – We had a good morning at work and downloaded our
files to send to Germany. We left about
noon, we had to go to the immigration office for our appointment to get an I.D.
Card. We thought our appointment was at
1:30 so we gave us some extra time to get there – walking – train- more
walking. Then we looked at the email and
it said it was at 2:30! So we decided we’d
go to lunch first! We wanted to try Lily’s
Café that we saw on our last trip – because we have a granddaughter named Lily. But when we got there it said it was under
renovation and should be open in November!
We’ll try then! We had passed an Ethiopian
Restaurant and it was close, so we went there.
We’ve never been to or seen an Ethiopian restaurant so this was a new
experience. They had a lunch buffet that
had 5-6 covered serving trays with 2 skillets in each of different food – and a
label on the table of what it was……in Swedish.
OR you could order Lasagna! We
chose the buffet!
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| Ethiopian Lunch Buffet |
They had a “tortilla”
like spongy bread (brown-gray) that people would put on the plate to put the rest of the food
on, so we followed. We took a spoonful
of everything that was offered. We were
surprised, it wasn’t spicy hot or curry, it was pretty bland but it did have
flavor. Lots of vegetables, I recognized
spinach, potatoes, carrots, green beans and one pan had some meat – not sure
what it was but there was a bone in it. We
were able to eat and rested in a warm place until it was time to go for our
appointment. We got to the office and tried
to sign in but we were 7 minutes too early! You could only sign in 30 min.
before your scheduled time – so we waited to sign in at the kiosk. Then we waited for our number to be up on the
board – but it was a smooth operation – we were at the booth with the employee and
it was 2:30! We had to show our
credentials and ID’s and Person number that we got and today they took our picture
and measured our height. Now we wait 2
weeks and the cards will come in and we will have to go to that office and pick
them up.
Saturday – We stayed in and enjoyed the morning – and then
in the afternoon we went to Jarfalla – where the Sister Missionaries from our ward
live. We met Sister Adams that just got
transferred in to our ward – she will leave for home next transfer in 6 weeks. We
have to check the apartments of 6 sets of Missionaries. We check for things in each room, anything
broken, or not working, they have a Shelter in place food box that we check for
outdated items and then they have to replace those items. Check the fire and
Co2 alarm and fire extinguisher to make sure they are in working order, are
they warm and safe basically. We had fun
talking to them and doing the check. When
we got home we got to watch Marco Polo’s of our 4yr old twins and 6yr old son of
Jennifer and JT (Jon’s son) was refereeing!
So cute to see each of them try their hardest! Wrestling is quite the sport! The things they have to learn are all tough
lessons – winning but not being too full of yourself – losing but not such a
poor loser – being a good sport – your fighting for your team but it’s only you
out there! Not to mention the starvation
factor (not at 4-6yr old stage). Your
body is worn out after a few matches but you have to keep going and the matches
get tougher as you go because your wrestling the winners!
Sunday – We woke up to SNOW! Went to Church and met our other new
missionary Elder Olson. We had a good
group in the English-speaking Sunday School.
We met Sister Adams after church and asked how her first day was and she
said – well I only need to learn Spanish, Mandarin and Russian and I should be
Good! Haha. I love our ward!
Swedish Language for this week is: Months
Januari
Februari
Mars
April
Maj – the j usually sounds like a y
Juni
Juli
Augusti
September
Oktober
November
December
We wish you a Happy March!
We have 2 granddaughters that have birthdays this month and my Brother
and Sister-in-law are Celebrating their 57th Wedding Anniversary today! Happy Anniversary Barry & Eileen! Their son Jeff is also celebrating his
birthday! Happy Birthday Jeff!
We hope you all have a wonderful week! Love you, John & Linda
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