Missionary Week #35

Missionary Week # 35         Date:  May 13, 2019 – May 19, 2019

 Seemed like our week went fast again!  I don’t have a lot of pictures this week unfortunately!  

 Monday – We got to work a little before 7am and started to work.  Today John’s computer hit the 0% left. So, he could not capture anymore pictures.  He moved boxes, and made new title pages for the new boxes, so he stayed busy.  He even listened to a Webinar on the Viet Nam War.  After work we headed to the YSA Center.  We stopped by the Muffin Bakery [YUM] to get some muffins to take to the kids for their Home Evening Treat.  No one was at the center when we got there so we found a park around the corner and enjoyed sitting on a park bench watching all the people go by!  Then we headed back to the YSA Center and we had a really good turn out – probably 11-12 kids came for tonight’s presentation from a guest speaker “Josef” His power point was on Creativity.  Course it was all in Swedish – but the speaker would come over and fill us in on what he was having the kids do.  They had several group activities and then one with everyone involved.  It was fun watching them use their “Creativity”.  When it was all over, we started home and found a “Grillin” shop – they have hamburgers, salads, pizza etc. We ate a late dinner and then headed home.  We got a Marco Polo from Janell who is in Hawaii – we are exactly 12 hours ahead of her -so it’s easy to do the calculations for the time difference! 

Tuesday – We got to work and called Janell – because we kept missing her last night.  It was good to catch up on all the things happening in their life in Hawaii!  John still has no room on his computer – Germany is getting files ready to delete but no word from them until after lunch.  We came home and went to the grocery store for staples – milk, eggs and juice and then headed to our Family Home Evening with our 2 other senior couples.  We have a good time together – we’re all from Arizona and I think I’ve already told you there are connections with people we know, and they know.  Small World stuff.  While we were driving to the Mission Office – we saw this Lamborghini sure sounded good! 

  Wednesday – We got to work and worked hard and left for home about 4pm!  Great weather – nice and warm.  The sun sets after 8:30!  We didn’t have to do anything or go anywhere!  It was a nice change!

 Thursday – Happy Birthday to my Sister-in-law Eileen!  We were suppose to have a conference call at home from 3 people from Salt Lake City today – but we didn’t get the call.  Then we found out we were suppose to sign in to a “go-to-meeting”…. Not good communication… Hopefully we’ll hear from them next week! 

 Friday – This is our 8^th month anniversary of being on a Mission!  Hard to believe! 

We got to work early and got the shuttles ready to ship them to Germany.   The moving company that the archive has hired to move items to their new archive – have been on our floor this whole week!  They have “cages” on wheels, taller than the men, that they roll through our room and they are pretty noisy!  John helps them roll the cages in and out of the room – they have so many to move in and out that our “automatic doors” close before they can get all the cages in and out!  The movers were leaving the door open while they loaded up the cages and then bring them out.  We were freezing!  There is a lot of COLD AIR inside a mountain!  So, John is able to close the doors, so we don’t freeze! 

 Saturday - John did all the laundry  - he says he likes this schedule rather than Friday Night – so for a while we’ll keep this slot, and I agree it’s great!  We went to the Temple today and saw new sights along the way – we’ve never driven in the car – we’ve always taken the train!  It is beautiful in Sweden right now with all the shrubs and trees in blossom.  After the Temple we headed to a bakery in the little shopping center close by.  It was pretty good – they have a lot of desserts – and then they also have salads, sandwiches and more desserts!  We met 2 of the ladies from our Jackobsberg Ward and had them sit with us. It was fun to talk to them and get to know them better – they both speak English and we got to ask a lot of questions.  Then we all headed to Stake Conference and had a good meeting with one of the Area 70’s was the guest speaker.  When it was over, we took them home, so they didn’t have to walk to the train stations.  They were so happy!  When we first asked them if they’d like a ride home, they said “Oh no! That’s too much to ask!” We told them it wasn’t a problem, they continued to say no, but then the one little lady said, “But if you ask us one more time we won’t say no!” So, we asked them one more time and they thanked us and said “YES”!  

 Sunday – We went to the Sunday Meeting of Stake Conference and picked up Elder & Sister Borg on our way.  When we came out it was raining!  It’s been cloudy and cool all day!  Really feels fresh.

We are sure thinking about all of our grandchildren who are closing out their school year soon!  We have Rylee - graduating from High School!  JT is graduating from 8th grade!  Congratulations you've worked hard this year and we're very proud of you!   Have fun, and we're looking forward to all the fun things you will be doing during your Summer. 

Have a great week 

Love you, John & Linda - Gramma & Grampa - Elder & Sister Richardson