Missionary Week 48

Missionary Week 48 – August 12, 2019 – August 18, 2019

Hello Everyone!  It’s been a nice cool week here in Stockholm, with a few rain showers occasionally and some beautiful sun.  We have had another good week and hope you have too.

From our lunch room at work
The clouds are so pretty!

Monday – Work was good, the train ride is cramped…meaning we were standing most of the time.  As we get closer to home, we finally get seats.  We got some pretty cute Marco Polo’s from our grandkids with First Day of School pictures with their new back packs.   

Tuesday – Today we got to the train and it was back on a regular schedule, so we were able to have seats together and got to work at our normal time at 7am. (They must have more trains running again)

Work was good, the boxes still have a lot of medical papers so that takes a lot longer. Elder Borg was tasked with doing a box of the military cards and medical papers but timing it.  Then he had to do the same box over again without doing the medical papers.  Very interesting, it took him 4 hours to capture with the medical papers/envelopes etc. and when he did only cards it took him 55 minutes! 

We were able to talk to 4 of our kids throughout the day.  It’s always good to catch up.  We got an update on the first day of school.  Everybody had a great day, only one confessed to getting into trouble…. for “Blurting” she told us that the teacher didn’t want them “Blurting” out an answer and she forgot and “Blurted” out an answer to a question.

Wednesday – Today was my birthday – Facebook, Emails, Marco Polo’s and phone calls were very much appreciated. Thank you!  You must remember when you get this old…. you try to forget that another year has gone by! 

We made it to the train with 1 minute to spare, got seats together and work was fine.  It was a bright & sunny day today.  My husband bought us dinner to bring home so I wouldn’t have to cook tonight! 

Thursday - Went to work, our Supervisor in Sweden came today for a quick visit, he had a meeting with the Military Archivist this afternoon.

 

Friday – Got to work and got our shuttles ready to send off to Germany and we were able to leave at 2:30 today we had over 40 hrs.  Laundry was at 4-7 pm and yes, I helped!

Saturday – We had a lazy morning and then at 1:30 we were picked up by the Borgs to go to our Ward BBQ party. There was a good turn-out too. It was amazing!  They had 2 BBQ’s going, with steak, chicken legs, breasts and Hot dogs!  Potatoes and green salad, watermelon, chips, pop, and Popsicle's for dessert!  They had tables outside in the grass, and the weather co-operated, it was cloudy but no rain til later tonight!   Only a few flying insects joined the party.

Sunday – HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO JOSHUA TODAY!  The Borgs picked us up for Church and it was a great meeting.  We learned that the kids here in Sweden start school tomorrow. We had a visitor from Sierra Leon, Africa he has been in Sweden for 3 years.  He fit right in with our English Sunday School class and we had some great discussions. 

I didn’t take many pictures this week, but I will leave you with one.  On our walk to the train station we noticed these teeny-tiny mushrooms in the grass on Wednesday – by Friday they were all black and shriveled up!  My take is - watch for tiny miracles around you today, they may not be there tomorrow! 

Have a Great Week!

We think of you often and miss you!  Love hearing from you!  Love, John & Linda, Mom & Dad, Gramma & Grampa