Missionary
Week 76 February 24, 2020 ~ March 1, 2020
We
finished up our trip to Gotland and got back to work!
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| Large Viking Burial Ground |
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| The Salls at the Sea Stacks |
Monday
– We are still in Visby. Met Salls for breakfast at 8am. Then got ready for our day. We are heading south today.
The Salls were our guides and we used our GPS
– but sometimes we came up empty! We had
visitor maps – road atlas – and still couldn’t find a few things.
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| Inside |
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| In Visby |
We saw some really cool churches and Viking
Burial Grounds – in the ship formation. Found the Sea Stacks – Rocks that have
been formed by erosion.
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| Deborah & 1 of her projects |
We
traveled to Klintehamn, to find the Weaving shop owned by Deborah that we met
at church. It was a large corner store
front and it was jam packed with looms.
She had a class in the afternoon, and some of the ladies were leaving – but
we got to see 2 ladies still working. It
was very interesting.
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| Kläder or Clothes Shop windows |
When
we came back to town, John and I walked back to see if the Souvenir shops were
open – and found that they were still closed.
We found out later that the children were out of school for some reason –
so a lot of people were on a vacation.
They also said – they depend on tourism and that’s in the months of May-August. Gotland is “THE” place to go for Swede’s
summer get-ways. We continued to another
street and found a toy store and found a couple of things there.
We
then met the Salls for dinner at Taco Tequila – we all had 2 tacos – they tasted
wonderful – but they are not fried – it’s a small round soft tortilla with your
choice of fish, chicken, carne asada etc.
We ate them so fast I didn’t even get a picture! We also tried their guacamole and chips – and they
were good – and were the best chips we’ve had here.
Tuesday – We had breakfast at 8am again. The dining room was crowded today, there was
some sort of a convention going on. John
packed up the car and we went up North again to see another Viking burial
ground.
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| If you see a pile of rocks - it's a grave |
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| Inside one of the little houses |
She works there when they are open in the summer. She saw Johns name tag and she said “Oh – are you the same as the Mormons?” He told her “Yes” and she thanked us for what we are doing. She has been researching her family that went to Illinois and was so thankful that we were saving the records.
On our way back to Visby we saw
an historical sign and turned in to go see a cave. It was closed for winter, but the sign showed
stalactites and stalagmites! We went back
to Visby and walked the streets again, took the Salls to the toy store and we
had lunch one last time at the Bad Wolf and said our Goodbyes.
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| Leaving Port of Visby |
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We went to the Information Center,
and then found Gotlands Fire Station so John could get one more patch. Then we
went to the Ferry and waited a little while and then loaded up – we were drove
up a ramp this time and went and found our seats on the side of the boat. It was snowing/raining. It got dark pretty quick so we couldn’t see
anything on the way back until we were coming into the Nynashamn port.
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| Our Seats |
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| Storra Mossen at 6:30 a.m. |
Wednesday – Off to work, it’s getting a little lighter in the
morning. Today, it was cloudy and
spitting snow off & on. Didn’t look
like any snow at lunch time.
Thursday – We woke up to
Snow! Saw the plow clearing off the
sidewalks early. Tonight, we went to the
Mission Office – Club House for our Senior Couples Family Home Evening. It
was our last Family Home Evening – kind of sad.
The Ashby’s will be leaving soon too.
The
Torries – our new Office Couple had a slide show of their Mission to Nairobi, Kenya. They showed us food, people, animals, way of
life and some pretty impressive stories.
If you’d like to see a YouTube video, they showed us – this is from the Office
Couple that took the Torrie’s place – their daughters were visiting and as they
are touring around a lion opens their car door!
The Torrie’s had pictures of driving around with the animals this close to
them too…
Lion opens car door
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Did you know lions could open car
doors? My sisters were visiting our parents, while serving a mission in South
Africa, and had an experience of a lifetime.
We got home and Jon called, making
sure we had a way to get home from Phoenix!
They have room!
Friday – Heading to work the temperature was -1*C, lightly
snowing, fewer people – we think because it was Friday. We had a good day at work, came home at 2:30
to do our laundry.
Saturday
– Happy Leap Year!
Blaire sent us a Marco Polo that our package arrived intact! Yay! Got
to hear from Janell via Marco Polo.
Always good to catch up. We went
to a Baptism at our Jakobsberg Ward for Unix.
Great service and there were a lot of people. Great Fika afterwards.
Brother Bendixen asked
if we could talk next week instead of the 15th! I guess its High Council time – 3rd
Sunday.
We heard that our replacements are a couple
from Washington State, they won’t get here until June.
Sunday
– John was not feeling well, he was cold and achy. So, we didn’t go to church today. John talked with Elder Salls to teach his
Sunday School Class – the Salls were called to teach the youth Sunday School – so
they will be fine. We have not heard of
any Corona Virus happenings here so – he is taking it easy and we shall see how
he feels tomorrow. 16 Days Left! We hope!
We think of you often and miss
you! Love hearing from you! Love, John & Linda, Mom & Dad, Gramma
& Grampa
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