Missionary Week 51

Missionary Week 51 – September 2, 2019 – September 8, 2019

We had a great week at work and a Wonderful weekend. Hope you did the same.

Monday – Off to work in high hopes that Fridhemsplan would be open and they did not disappoint!  They are still working on it, but people can walk around and get to the other trains and exits. It sure saves us a lot of time!   We had to remember how to get to our other train – but it came back to us pretty fast! 

It was a cool walk to work but still did not need a sweater.  A lot of people wear jackets already and ask us if we aren’t cold! 

It took us only 20 minutes to get home today and we went to the grocery store tonight.  We got calls or Marco Polo’s from our kids telling us about their Labor Day weekend.  Everyone is safe at home and had a good time.

Tuesday – We got to work before 7 this morning.  Work was fine, getting 2 boxes done a day. At Lunch, the sun was shining and darker clouds when we left a little after 4 p.m. 

Wednesday –HAPPY BIRTHDAY to ALYVIA!  She is 10!  Hard to believe that.

Left for train a little early.  While we were waiting for our 2^nd train, a guy that we have seen before there, was going through the garbage (This is an everyday occurrence, lots of people look in the bins and pull out pop cans and plastics  to get the rebates), but this guy picked out a coffee cup, took the top off and poured it into his coffee cup! AARRRRGHHH!  That is not an everyday occurrence!  

Tonight, John took me to Relief Society – Game Night.  What a hoot.  We played Bingo! 

You know the game where they call out numbers in rapid succession?  In SWEDISH!  So, the Relief Society President tried to translate for me, she is from Arizona and she does know Swedish – and she knows her numbers except 7’s are really hard to say and so is 70’s and so she’d yell out a number and somebody down the table would say NO it’s 73….. instead of 48…. It was hilarious.  I’ve gotten my numbers down pretty good to 10. BUT as fast as it was going I was not getting it and I’d never branched out to learn the teens or any other numbers…but, I did win once!  They are a great bunch of ladies and we did have fun and great fika…. Snacks.

There was a group practicing several songs, in Spanish for a funeral on Thursday, in another room.  They sounded so good. 

Thursday - HAPPY BIRTHDAY to MATT!  It was raining today as we left for the train.  We had to use the umbrella!

 John had to go to T-Central to buy more ink for our printer, right before lunch and he said it wasn’t raining then. 

Friday – We left at our normal time and got to work at 6:45!  We don’t need to leave that early anymore!  We got all the files transferred to the Shuttles and ready for UPS pick up.  We worked until 2:30pm. Laundry is done. Got Marco Polo’s from Jon and Jenn – Our Apache County Fair has been going on this week, we really miss it!  The kids have so much fun entering their drawings, crafts and hobbies.  It’s right up the street from Gramma and Grampas’ house.

Saturday – HAPPY BIRTHDAY to LUCY!  She is 8 years old today! She got a bunny! We also got a Marco Polo while her family was up at the Mud Bogs at the Fair.

We got ready to go to the Temple, picked up the Borgs and headed for the Stockholm Temple.  It was a nice day there and then we left about 1:30 to head to the Stake Center in Gubbängen for the David Archuleta Concert!

We were able to get a parking spot right across the street – unheard of – and we got great seats – because we were there an hour early.  He is very talented, and he had some great stories from his life – before “stardom” and after and how he stays grounded. It was fun to have 4 young girls in front of us loving his songs, taking pictures and mouthing the words to their favorite songs he sang, they were so cute.  He sang and talked for 1 ½ hours.  He stood up front and you could get in line to shake hands; he couldn’t speak because he was saving his voice for the 7 o’clock showing and we got our picture taken with him. 

I know a few of our granddaughters would’ve liked to have been there!  Grampa sent several Marco Polo’s so they could see him in action. 

We took the Borg’s home and ran to the grocery store and topped of the car with gas to hand over the car to the Borg’s tomorrow.  It was a fun day, felt like several days rolled into one!

Sunday – We picked up the Borg’s for church and they sustained a new 2^nd Councilor in the Bishopric today.  Several weeks ago, they announced the 2^nd Councilor, Brother Mitchell was being put in the Stake Sunday School Presidency. So today they replaced him with Brother Bendixen, who is from New Mexico but working here in Sweden at one of the Universities in Genetics.  Young cute family.  They came to Sweden a couple of weeks before we got here last year.

I thought I had some great pictures of the concert and I was going to update you on the rebuilding of the house across the street that burned.  But Alas, I lost my pictures off my phone for this week.  Luckily, we used Johns phone for our picture with David Archuleta!  I don’t know what I did different than any other week, but I did something wrong!  Glad John sent the Marco Polo’s at least we have those to look at!

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