Missionary Week 64

Missionary Week 64 –December 2, 2019 –December 8, 2019

This has been a pretty wild week.  We’ve had some pretty high HIGHS and some pretty Low LOWS!  We are fine, we love our Mission but there are times when we wish we could be at Home with our Loved Ones!  Hug your family Today!

Monday – Cold between 21*to 23* this morning heading to work – no rain or snow.  We are both getting about 1 box a day completed at work.  We got to talk to Nelly on a video call this morning. She was trying to help a friend get her car started. 

Mission Pres & Wife playing a piano
duet of Christmas Music. They are
fantastic!

Tuesday – DEC 3^rd: HAPPY BIRTHDAY to our Daughter-in-law LARISSA!  We hope you had a wonderful birthday!

We got to sleep in a few more minutes today, had breakfast and headed to Zone Conference in Handen today.  It was a great day, we found out that 2 of our Elders were mugged at knife point recently.  Scary situation – but they complied with all the muggers (3) requests and were not injured.  The bad guys wanted all of their credit cards and one of them took them and got money out, they asked for their phones and when they saw they were Samsung phones – they said they didn’t want them!  The boys got to a grocery store and called the Mission President and he and his wife went and got the boys and took them to the police.  There hasn’t been a mugging for over 100 years in our Mission. 

It was our Christmas party at Zone Conference so after lunch we got to watch “It’s a Wonderful Life” and ate popcorn!  When we were all cleaning up, we found Elder Fuller for the first time here in Sweden.  We were in the MTC together and he and Elder Olson got here several weeks after us. He has been North and South, this is the first time he's been in the Stockholm area.   Then an Elder came running over and said, “I heard you guys were from St. Johns!”  “My brother lives there!”  He was Elder Nosker – and yes, we know his brother – they are even in our ward!  Small world!!!  We got a picture with him and sent it to our daughter Jennifer to get to Leroy & Kate Nosker-Tanner! 

We got Marco Polo’s from Jennifer & Porter, Jonathan & Titus – JT was wrestling his first High School matches in Winslow.  He had 3 matches and won all 3 – 2 with pins. Great Job JT!

Wednesday – Back to work today.  We found out that some of the cards we are doing don’t have to be redacted or (marked private) so we have been re-checking our last box to be in compliance. 

Tonight, I did some Family History – still working to find out which Johanna Nilsson is OURS!

I looked on the Stadsarkivet website – (where we work) they have a data base of anyone that lived in the Stockholm area – where they were living, who was living with them in their household, birthdate and where they were born.  I started looking into every page of Johanna Maria Nilsson – and found that her address was at Östermalmsgatan 15 & 19 – I’ve seen both of those addresses on “Nana” Elvira Ashburn’s records!  So, I still want to show it to my Family History Consultant Sister Westerlund – but I’m pretty sure we’ve nailed it.  Johanna Maria was 30 years old at that time and lived at the right address, as Elvira’s birth record states. 

She has 9 brothers and sisters.  It appears she did marry a Viktor Emanuel Edberg and had at least 4 children with him.  Edit Maria Victoria in 1892, Adolf Fredrik Emanuel in 1894, Viktor Ejnar in 1898 and Agnes Linnea in 1900.  That research will have to continue!  Pretty Exciting! 

Thursday – We were up early, normal day at work, we left at 4 but I did stop at the desk and asked an attendant to verify what I was seeing on the website – and she said yes the addresses were where they were living within that parish – which was Hedvig Eleanora. 

Tonight at 8:13pm John and I were both on computers – I was looking at Johanna’s records and the power went out!  First time since we’ve been here that we’ve had that happen.  The streetlights were out too, and I don’t think the Swede’s know how to do a 4-way stop!  We took several pictures – of near misses but we heard no crashes!  We went to bed and saw the light come back on about 2 ½ hrs later.  The building across the street was not affected. 

Had Marco’s from Matt & his Dad Martin, they are visiting from Iowa. 

Friday – We were so happy we got Marco Polo’s from Jenn who was at the Ward Christmas Party – we saw her kids and Jaylen’s family at the party, talking to Santa and in the Nativity Play.  Lily played Mary this year.

It was raining going to work, we left at 3 to get home to do Laundry at 4pm. 

Saturday – We fixed breakfast, cleaned a little, went grocery shopping and went to a Secondhand store.  Wish I had found them earlier! 

Then we headed out to Stenhamra for a wrestling match that Brother Mitchell from our Ward coaches.  It was very interesting.  All sports are Club Sports here – nothing from Schools.  The girls wrestle Free-Style and boys Greco Roman.  Brother Mitchell’s team has won the last 2 years and if they win today, they get to keep the Big Trophy.  We noticed a lot of teams from Sweden and one team from Finland and one from Estonia!  (The saddest match I saw- was a boy who was already crying when he got into the middle to meet his opponent, his head was down – no confidence at all.  He lost – I wish someone could have told him – that there is a chance – but you have to try!)

We got more Marco’s from Jon at Avery’s volleyball games in Snowflake.  So fun to watch.

Sunday – We went to church; it was raining when we left.  Good day at church. We learned that Brother Mitchell's Team did Win and were able to take the Big Trophy Home.

We have some sad news from our Friends in the Valley Rod & Sandy Seagle.  Rod has been diagnosed with ALS or “Lou Gehrig” disease.  He has been bed ridden for a little while and is now in his last days.  We would ask for prayers of Peace and Comfort for them at this time.  We Love You Seagles!

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