Missionary Week #29

Missionary Week #29     April 1, 2019 – April 7, 2019

Hello Everyone, Happy APRIL!  Another week has flown by again!  We received an Email from our team in Germany that checks our Quality – and they sent us a huge sheet of problems – which we don’t normally have.  Of course, we got the email on Thursday night and it would’ve been fine because we would have been able to find out on Friday – but we got Friday OFF!  So we had to wait for 3 days to get back to work to see what in the world happened!

Monday -  We anxiously went to work, we printed of the email and looked it over and found that the problems weren’t matching what we were seeing …. A little explanation…..we work on military cards – which also comes with a lot of medical papers – we have to mark the medical papers – so that they won’t be put on-line because of privacy issues.  So our email was telling us we hadn’t marked a bunch, and on the other side of the coin we had marked too many in some cases! We went through John’s work and then my work.  We then were ready to call our Friends in Germany and find out what was going on.  After a while they were able to see that they had a new program that they were using that wasn’t catching everything it should have!  That took us all morning to figure this out.  We were glad we were able to get it straightened out and get back to work.  We worked for an hour and got to go to lunch! We worked until 4 and then headed home and had to take the car to the Mission Office to take back 2 boxes of curtains that we had taken to the Örebro sisters last week.  We stopped by the grocery store to stock up and came home.  We were able to get a Marco Polo from The Baker’s who are on a Mission in San Fran/Oakland but got permission to go to Eagar for a new Grandson’s Blessing!  So, they were able to give our kids a big hug from them and US!  We got to see them at the luncheon afterward. So grateful for technology.   

                                  

Tuesday – We went to work, it was chilly, but the Sun was out.  We noticed at lunch that it was getting windy.  Went home and got a call from Jaylen – trying to figure out our sprinkler system!  It’s so nice to have them there in our house and taking such good care of it!  We hear they have fixed our lumpy front yard – and replanted it, and they are repainting the house – they asked if we would have a problem with them painting it….ARE YOU KIDDING??? GO FOR IT!  But he won’t let us see it until it is done! 

Then we headed to our church to meet with Sister Westerlund who is going to help me with my Family History!  She was there and waiting for us.  So I explained my Grandmothers story and she took notes and we got on the computer to check out ArkivDigital – and of course – there was a new version coming out TODAY April 2^nd and it had not been installed – so we couldn’t get to the website!  So she was going to go home and do some research for me and then call the guy – who lives in Örebro – 2 hours away – and he’ll have to come and fix it.  But I feel we had some headway – just getting her filled in on trying to find my Nana’s Mother.  We gave her a ride home – she lives a couple of train stations away from us.  We were able to get a call from Janell when we got home, and catch up on her Spring Break trip.  Jaylen called and he was ready to show us the house and garage!  It looks fantastic, and we didn’t have to get dirty! 

Wednesday – Went to work – it was still cold – high 30’s with more wind.  Had a good day at work. Came home – had dinner and headed back to the Church for our Relief Society Activity.  John goes with me and sits out in the foyer and reads.  While all the ladies were chatting and making little tags to go on candy bags to hand out to whoever you’d like to brighten their day.  The Young Sister Missionaries were there and about 10 other ladies – we got to laughing pretty hard just talking and hearing about their days. 

 Thursday – Happy Anniversary to Jon and Rachel!  16 years, it’s hard to believe it’s been that long ago. Their son JT is in 8^th grade and in Social Studies they are learning about the Viet Nam war.  So he has written email’s asking for more information and he told us that he had told the class a couple of stories that John had told him about that he wanted to share.   We did go to work – normal day – and back home and we didn’t have to go anywhere – Whew! 

Friday – Went to work, we sent off our shuttles to Germany had lunch and worked until 3 and went home, had dinner and headed back out to Stockholm to go to the YSA (Young Single Adult) Center for their Home Evening – they found they didn’t have a lot of kids that would come out on Monday so they change it up and sometimes have it on Friday – so we went to support them – The Johnson’s were having their farewell party at the Mission Home – so we missed that but we were able to substitute for them – they leave for home on Monday.  It was fun meeting all the kids – they are 18-30 yrs old.  They had 2 talk about their mission. They showed some pictures and talked about their mission the girl had gone to London England and the boy had gone to Spain.  The hard part was that they spoke in Swedish the whole time!  So with their hand gestures and body language – we made up our own stories!  We did get to meet a High Councilor from the Stake that was there – he just had to make sure they locked up the building.  So we sat and talked with him until the kids were ready to leave.  We had a good evening. 

Hotel/Restaurant

Saturday – Since we had to change our date night  – Laundry to this morning – the alarm went off at 6:45.  After the laundry – we went for a drive out to find the airport.  We came into the Arlanda airport but we were picked up, we were walking zombies from the 10 hour flight and we didn’t remember much!   We saw an airplane right before the airport and they’ve turned it into a hotel/restaurant! 

Entrance to Airport

We then headed for Stockholm to deliver some supplies to the Elders there.  Managed to make it through all the traffic and pedestrians!

Old & New Buildings

We tried to read all the Road Signs!

Rolls Royce - Sorry I missed the White Ferrari in front of it!

So Many Signs!

Moose carved into Entrance

It was a beautiful day – Sun was out and shinning and the people flock outside when it is like that!  

Prada - Gucci right down the Street

Then headed to the grocery store to pick up items for Tacos – the YSA are meeting Sunday afternoon to watch General Conference together – and in between sessions they are cooking Tacos.  We asked what we could bring and they told us to get lettuce 3-4 balls, 4 yellow paprikas, and 5 red paprikas.  They really meant bell peppers and lettuce heads – language is so funny. 

We watched Saturday morning session at 6pm here…..in Utah it was 9am.  We are looking forward to seeing the rest of Saturday’s and Sunday’s session this afternoon and Monday. 

We got a Marco Polo from Jenn and Jody – all of our girls and their girls were in the Valley to see Wicked!  It was so good to see them all – Janell missed out because she lives in Hawaii – and Avonlea was missing – she’s 4!  We hear that JT had a track meet – we are waiting to hear more about that!  

Sunday – We woke up to a cloudy rainy!  We will be headed to the YSA Center a little after 1pm to get there by 2pm.  We should be home tonight about 10.  We’ll tell you how it goes!  We’re just hoping to hear Conference in English! 

John calling "Promise" to let us in!

We wish you a great new week!  We have faith that Spring is coming – we are seeing little flowers popping up and some green starting to show up on bushes – at home we see trees blooming and green trees already!  Happy Spring!

John & Linda