Missionary Week 40 – June 17, 2019 – June 23,
2019
Hello Everyone, We had another great week, we
celebrated our Half-Way Mark of our Mission, and had another Holiday to
Celebrate the Mid-Summer.
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| Daisy's |
Monday – June 17, 2019 – We
hit our ½ way mark today – we have been out 9 months! It has gone by so fast. We went to work and I
had 17 minutes of “Capture Time” – because my computer was full. I finished more of our training video’s on-line,
dusted, did some Family History and called it a day at 4pm! We sent emails last week to our supervisor
and told him that we were low on space – they have to make sure all of my old
files are accepted, before they can send me the ok to delete those older files.
So I had a great day, but felt like I was goofing off!
All of our kids are at Roosevelt for our Family
Reunion – without us! We started getting
Marco Polo’s from them showing us how high the lake has risen with our good
winter that we had – the Water was about 6” above the “Wamp Monster Wall” - It is an old irrigation – water way duct
work, we usually are much further down in the cove and can see the big holes –
when the kids were much younger and the lake much higher – they would walk
across it and it looked like they were walking on water! This year they were able to sit on it and
fish from it! They said they missed us
but they all had a great time together. (More
on this story as the week progresses)
Tuesday – We
headed to work, and John suggested that we both go a different way and see who
gets to work first! We really wanted to
know if there was a faster way to get work since the Fridhemsplan Station is
under construction. We made it to
T-Central, John walked to work from there, I rode another train and then got
off at our old Rådhuset and walked to work.
I got in the front door with my key fob and entered my pin#, got in the
door and had one more key pad – I didn’t get my pin# right the first time but –
on the second try the door opened. I got
to the office door (another key pad) and made it to the elevator and saw that
it was on M6 and I had to wait for the elevator to come up to the top
floor. It stopped on M3 and then came up
to me and I went down – we work on M3 – so I knew John had beaten me – but just
barely! We learned that either way – we get
to work about the same amount of time!
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| This is just one shelf |
For work, since I still haven’t received the okay to
delete – I worked on information about our Military boxes so we could have a
meeting at lunch with our other Supervisor.
I took information from the boxes such as the Information on the boxes –
the men’s birthdates – how the box was in order by birthdate or military enlistment
number or date. That took me until lunch
time to gather it all up and put it in a spreadsheet. Anyway – we had lunch and had the other
couple with us and were able to have a meeting on the phone with our
Supervisor. The issue is that we can’t capture
any records where the men are born after 1940 – due to privacy
restrictions. So the way the boxes were
labeled – all differently – we had to verify that we were still meeting those rules. We finally got our email with the file to
delete both of our computers – old files so this afternoon I was able to
actually work!
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| Right behind the huge semi are the workers fixing the drain - the truck has the lighted arrow to show traffic to move to the right |
More Marco Polo’s from all the kids having fun on the pontoon
boat, in the cove and Rec Hall.
Wednesday - We
had a great day at work with a lot of space to work with I’m back to 22%. We look forward to seeing our Marco Polo’s –
kids having fun, a little smoky there because there is a wild fire going on south of the lake.
Thursday – Went
to work and got our shuttles ready to be shipped off today – because tomorrow
we are off work for MidSommer’s Holiday. We were invited to dinner at a lady’s
house from our Ward. She has been alone
for a while and she wanted to celebrate with us so The Borgs picked us up and
we headed to her house. It was a lovely
evening – we enjoyed our stay – and there was another lady from our ward that
she invited to be with us and we all had a great time talking and eating the
most delicious Salmon, vegetables and a “pressed cucumber salad – with dill and
vinegar – it was nice and had a nice crunch and I’m going to have to get her to
show me how she did it! They were sliced
really thin. She didn’t think we’d like
it! It was a Swedish traditional
dish. The other lady had brought a
chocolate cake – more like a brownie – but the “icing” she called a chocolate
truffle….it was wonderful – it had raspberries on top and then she had made a raspberry
sauce. We stayed until 10:50! (We didn’t pay any attention to time - It’s
still light!)
Friday – We
went to Skansen again today – and bought a year pass this time. There was a huge crowd in line to get in at
all three entrances! We walked around
for 3 hours and enjoyed the sites. There
was a Blacksmith working in the middle of the square – so we stopped and
watched him work. There was one other
man with him, they had made door hinges, drawer handles, earrings, rings, animal
traps, tools, hatchets, anchor, hooks etc. My Great-Grandfather and Great-Great
Grandfather were Blacksmiths’. So besides shoeing horses – I bet they also made
all of these things for people for the farms and homes in their area of Smedby,
Kalmar, Sweden.
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| May Pole |
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| Weaving machine in one of the houses |
Meanwhile back home, the kids were told to evacuate
the houses. The fire was still headed
their way so the Hot Shot crews from Texas were there creating a fire break and
they informed them, that they weren’t in danger of the fire – but breathing
would be harder because of all of the smoke – so they all had to pack up,
gather up and get the boats out of the water and all headed for home. It was a first to be Evacuated! We've had power outages, rainstorms, Boat almost sinking – but this is a big memory for them
now. It was good to hear they all got
home safely.
The fire is still burning
and the last pictures we saw was a picture that had fire coming up over the
mountain by the marina. TOO CLOSE!
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| Interesting Wood Piles! |
Saturday – Today,
after the laundry was done (Thank you John) we headed out to ride the train to
somewhere we hadn’t been!
We ended up at
Taby Centrum. It’s a huge mall but most of the stores were closed because of
the holiday – but we found a McDonalds and ate there! It looks like a great
place to go walking in the winter! We
talked with several of the kids to make sure they were all home, so good to get
caught up.
Sunday – We
went to church – fewer people there because of Summer vacations! To stay cool, there is a couple of fans in
the chapel and they have a door that opens up in the back that they open for the breeze!
Have a wonderful week, enjoy your family vacations,
stay safe and healthy!
We think of you often
and miss you! Love hearing from
you! Love, John & Linda, Mom &
Dad, Gramma & Grampa
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