Missionary Week 62

Missionary Week 62– November 18, 2019 – November 24, 2019

This was a fast and busy week, as we got our car out of the shop, met our new Sr. Couple that replaces the Borgs and had a Welcome/Farewell party at the Mission Home.

Monday – We left for work when after breakfast and go to work at 6:45!  We didn’t realize how early it was!   We were able to get in, so somebody was already in the building and working!  I still didn’t have room on my computer, so I did more Genealogy – taking the time to look at the Swedish records and translating with Google Translate. 

After lunch I got an email from Germany with a file so I could delete old files and I was good to go.  I now have 56% free space!  Tonight, after dinner, we watched the “Face to Face with Elder Gong” on the new Children and Youth Program of the Church.  We were excited to see Hunter Ober – MarjAnn (Baker) Ober’s son in the program.  He did an awesome job and is growing up to be a fine young man! 

We talked with Jennifer tonight, but the service was so bad we ended up using Marco Polo to finish out our conversations! We also heard from Jaylen that they did arrive home safely from Disneyland!  

Tuesday – Today we walked in a light mist going to work and rain when we left at 4pm!  Work went well, John left about 10 to go pick up our car out of the shop.  The new Senior Couple Elder & Sister Salls flew in today from Salt Lake.  We called to welcome them to Sweden and told them we’d see them at work on Thursday.  They get a day to re-coop from travel and settling in. 

We went to the Mission Office to pick up some pans and kitchen items that the Sisters in our Ward needed. We will be visiting them Saturday.  Then we went to the grocery store to re-stock after 2 weeks.  We were having some pretty strange concoctions!  But the fridge and freezer got cleaned out! 

Wednesday – Work was fine today; at lunch we saw some blue skies behind the clouds!  My camera started screeching at me when I would take a picture.  We called our Supervisor in Germany so he could hear it and since he is coming next week to do some training with the Salls – he’s bringing me a new camera! 

Tonight, I made a dessert Swedish Kladkaka – a chocolate cake – it’s pretty good – how could it not be – it’s mostly butter!  With a little flour, sugar and 2 eggs and cocoa.  I was asked to bring a dessert for Friday’s party at the Mission Office.  I’ll just double the recipe on Friday. 

Thursday – We went to work in what we now call FOG.  You can see, but you just get a mist on your glasses, hair and clothes. I calibrated my camera and tried it out, it is still screeching. I don’t have to work until we get the camera changed out on Tuesday. 

I worked on the Hallmark line today – Johns’ Grandmother’s line.  He got a message from another lady who is related to us on this line and she asked him if he knew he was related to Jennifer Garner?!  Nanny’s mother was Carrie Garner, that is why Janell’s middle name is Carrie. 

When the Quist’s brought the Salls to work today they came up to meet us.  It was great to finally meet them- we’ve been emailing back and forth for a while.  Today was the Borg’s last day at the archive!  We were able to sit and chat at lunch with everybody, that was fun.

Friday – A little misty today going to work.  I didn’t even calibrate the camera – but I had to have the light on in order to work on the computer.  At lunch it looked like it had rained a little. 

Came home and made the Kladkaka (they pronounce it gladkaka) for the party and we made it to the Mission Home safely with it!  We had 2 new couples; The Rudd’s from Utah are going south to work with the Young Single Adults – they came in today!  We had to keep waking them up – but we’ve all been there!  The Salls are the other new couple so they all got to meet almost all our Sr. Couples.  We said our farewells to the Borg’s, they leave at 10 tomorrow morning – they’ll get to Denver with a 3hr layover and then on to California. 

 

Saturday – After breakfast we headed for Örebro, we texted the Sister’s there – we have to do their apartment check and because we would be arriving about noon – we wanted to take them to lunch.  They were excited with that – they picked a Thai restaurant they’ve wanted to try.  It was beautifully decorated, and the food was excellent. 

Sister's Adams and Jensen with
Elder Richardson

We had fun getting to know them. Then took them back to their apartment, they had a lesson scheduled and had to be to the train by 2:15, John had to oil their bike chains and we drove them to the train station. We had texted the Elders, but they never responded. 

Längbro Kryka -Church

Beautiful Marker

Front Door

Längbro tower

We went to the Längbro Church and Cemetery - It’s beautiful.  The cemetery is huge.  We could see lights and people in the church, but it was locked.  I’ll have to call the Pastorate office next week and get some more information.  We took a lot of pictures and I was glad to see where Augusta Elizabeth Carlstrom Carlsson was buried in 1912.  Don’t know if we’ll ever find a headstone, but it’s the right place.  We will go back.  I will have to dig into her children’s records to see if one of them might have been living there and that’s why she was in Örebro.  We tried to get John’s phone to work and it was acting crazy – no internet- we had no way of calling anyone so we headed back and went right to the Mission Office to have the Elders fix the phone – then we figured out why the Elders never responded to us – because they never got our message. 

We went to Ikea for a few things and then to the Sisters in Jakobsberg – our ward to check on them and get their kitchen items to them.  We had a good visit with them.  End of a great day.

Sunday – We went to church today, and it was our Primary Children’s Program.  They did so good.  Few in number but sweet children.  It’s been a great day.  We’re looking forward to a new week.

We hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving Week.  We are Thankful for our Family and Friends, for being able to be here in Sweden and doing the work we are doing and for our health.  We are grateful for all our blessings we’ve been given and continue to receive. 

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