Missionary Week 42 July 1, 2019 – July 7, 2019
Happy July! We hope you all had a wonderful Fourth of July, wherever you are! We had a great week and we saw fireworks in Sweden! It wasn’t on the fourth but the Sixth! We have no idea what they were for, but we figured better late than never!!! This week was way out of the ordinary and that is a good thing…. keeps you on your toes and awake!
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| Fireworks down the street - by Alvik on July 6, 2019! |
Monday- Happy Birthday to our daughter Jennifer! And Happy 2nd Anniversary to our daughter Janell & son-in-law Joshua!! We didn’t set an alarm for this morning because we had not received an email from our supervisor here in Sweden – Sven – they are trying to get us a new contract so that we can capture the boxes that are now here at the archive from the Military archive. So, we had no work to do…. John had ½ box left. We had breakfast and headed into work around 10am. We started to get to work, John on the box that was left, and I had Apartment check reports to turn in…to my dismay, I had forgotten the report pages that I needed to scan and send! I created a draft email so that when I scan the reports I will only need to attach and send. Then I was done! I took the opportunity to go work on my own Family History.
I headed up to the main lobby and asked assistance to find the court record for my Great-Grandfather. The librarian was very helpful and knew which book to order first so that I could trace the court records. It is so interesting and amazing that they kept such good records.
They give you a desk number in the reading room for you to sit at as you await the retrieval of the book. The first book was an index and you find the name of your person and find what book and page his information is in. I went to get the librarian and with his help I found that Carl Johan Carlsson was in another book and the item number was 372.
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| Index page |
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| The case listing |
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| First page of court minutes |
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| This is the Report from the victim |
The librarian ordered that book and I waited and when that book came, I knew to go directly to item #372.
Long story short, Carl Johan Carlsson, a Korporal [Corporal] was arrested along with a buddy – Erik Wilhelm Engstrom a guard and accused by “an office worker” Johan Emil Sandstrom of stealing money from him. I won’t give you the full 8-page transcription here, but I will shorten the story and I will send the full story to my brother, cousin and children – when I get it all done! The record begins with the “victim’s” side of the story, and the individual interviews from both accused. So, they do get to tell their side of the story.
The next librarian to help me would read a paragraph and then interpret for me as I wrote it down and I could ask questions as we went along. The date of this event was the week of 17 October 1887 – my great-grandfather was 24 years old. The two military buddies were out drinking and met this man about 7pm. They drank until midnight and had talked the man into going back to the barracks with them to drink some more. The man was drunk but agreed and they all went back to the barracks – the man fell asleep. The man had a coat and in the coat was his wallet. Carl went through the coat, found the wallet and gave some money to Erik to go buy more Brandy and food. When the man woke up his wallet was on the floor by the bed and the money was gone. The two men had similar stories but said that the man had told them to take his money and go get more brandy. In the verdict, the judge decided that Carl was the instigator and was sentenced to 2 months in jail to hard labor which was crushing rocks and he lost his rights as a citizen – he couldn’t vote, and he couldn’t work for one year. He was sent to the military prison. Erik, the other guard was fined and sent back to work. When arrested both Carl & Erik admitted they were guilty. The librarian told me that this was Carl’s first offence – so that was a good thing. If they were caught a third time for theft, they lost a hand!!! Carl must have learned his lesson well, because he stayed in Sweden for another 3 years until he arrived in America on the 8th day of September 1890 in New York. One mystery solved.
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| Dinner! |
We left work about 3:30, the trains were packed and didn’t get a seat for several stops. We picked up dinner at the little shop by the train station – ASAP Wok and Grill
Tuesday- Our supervisor Sven came to the archive today, and we had a meeting with him and the Borgs about our projects and we awaited the new Project number, it came in somewhere around 3-4pm. He took us all out to lunch at the Hong Kong restaurant and it was good food and he is a native Swede, so we were able to ask a lot of questions about Sweden’s history – and current events We worked until 5:30 and then walked Sven to T-central where he caught his train back to Örebro – where he lives! We were just there last week and didn’t know it.
We got to catch up with some of our kids – so good to see and hear from them.
Wednesday – Today we got to work before 7am and I went and finished the apartment reports and sent them to Sister Clouse….funny story…I went to my contacts and searched for Clouses and 2 emails showed up and I knew that the wife would probably be the one that needed the report so I sent it to Margot instead of Elder Clouse. Glad to have that done. Then Thursday – John asked me if I was able to send the report off and I said yes, I sent it to Margot, that’s when it hit me that Margot is Elder Clouse’s Sister-in-law and not his wife! OOPS! She and her husband were in Sweden on their mission a couple of years ago and my friend Elynn had given me her email to write to her and find out about the mission. I hurriedly sent a new email to Kari and told her what I had done. I found out later at our dinner on the 4th of July that Margot was so thrilled to get an email and be reminded of her mission!
We finished up work at 4 and stopped in Kristenberg for groceries – we have been asked to bring a fruit plate to our Senior Couple dinner at the President’s home to wish the Kelly’s a fond farewell. They have been here for 2 years with the Young Single Adults down south in Goteborg.
Thursday- Last night there was construction going on from 10pm – 4am. That’s when the crews show up, they are putting in new asphalt around our intersection. We went and worked until 2:30 and headed for home to change and pick up our food and the Borgs picked us up to go to the Mission Home. We had hamburgers and hot dogs, beans, chips and fruit and salad. A real American dinner! With Strawberry Shortcake for dessert!
Friday – This morning we had a couple of cute Marco Polos from the 4th of July Celebrations from home. All the kids from St. Johns got together up at the hangar and had dinner and games and watched the fireworks there. Spencer & Greta Baker were able to come up to St. Johns from Eagar too!
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| Grandkids +1 |
Jenn said all of a sudden, there was this little boy hanging around and playing games with them. They played Red Rover, and he finally said to them…” Um My name is Howard in case anyone wants to call on me!” so funny and cute. Before the sun went down, they got a picture for us of all the grand-kids there – in birth order – because that’s how Gramma does things! And Howard even stepped in for the photo-op! We are glad he did! The mom came over and said, “I guess your party is more fun than our party!” They live up the street from our house!
Saturday- John did the laundry, I cleaned and made breakfast and then we went to the movies in Kista – we found out today you pronounce it Shista! K’s are sometimes Sh and sometimes k’s depends on where the vowels are apparently. We went to see the Avengers: End game. It was a great movie – wish we knew who more of the people were in it, but it was fun. Then we rode back to Alvik – one train stop away from ours and walked to an Italian restaurant we had seen before. It was wonderful! John had a seafood pasta – with shrimp, mussels, calamari, scallops and oyster’s and I had Lasagna with artichokes, zucchini and red and green peppers – and cheese. Then we walked home. Nice and cool today – with a few scattered showers.
Sunday – We went to church and had more visitors today. A girl who was on her mission here last year came back with her family today. The family of an Elder that was released on Thursday came over to pick him up and see Sweden and visit our Ward in Jacobsberg and visit Denmark where their other son served 2 years ago. Great to visit with them and say goodbye. He was the missionary in our ward right before we got here – but he was transferred before we got to meet him. We have a new Sister Missionary now, we saw her but didn’t get to meet her we were in different meetings. It has been a cool day again; the clouds can be beautiful – gray but then bright white with them.
We hope your week ahead is a marvelous one, of good health, safe travels and enjoying your family.
We think of you often and miss you! Love hearing from you! Love, John & Linda, Mom & Dad, Gramma & Grampa
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