Week of January 26th

On Monday we caught the train and went into Stockholm to do some walking. It was so cold but we walked and it was good. We stopped in a sports store and purchase a set of walking sticks for each of us. We will get a better workout and we can also know how many steps we took! I used them in the hall but not outside yet!
We have had traveling (visiting) groups from several different places and it is amazing just how quickly you become attached to them. It is such a testimony of the importance of the temple when they come and come for a week. They spend their entire day in the temple and are thrilled to do so.
We had another snowfall and so everything is sparkly and white again.
It has been cold but the walk to the temple is not long. Had our Swedish lesson here in the guest house because of the snowstorm and Oscarson’s would not be home.
After our lesson Kaye Soderquist and I went to the church for the tell end of their RS activity. Kaye is a scrap booker and wanted to see if they had any new ideas. As I was talking to Kristin Brockman Kruss, one of the new counselors in RS and her husband is in the bishopric, I discovered she grew up in Kennewick and tended Bryan when he was young. Wow what a small world.
Sister Ensign went to the library and brought dad and me a book to read. Dad’s is called Agent Zig Zag and mine was The Guernsey Literary ad Potato Peel Pie Society and we have been doing a lot of reading.
Saturday, our one Saturday a month off, and we left at 10:00 with the Soderquist’s to go in to Stockholm and see a couple of museums.
The weather was beautiful, clear blue sky, slight breeze but cold! We went to see the Medieval Museum that is under the parliament building. It is full of things they found when they were going to build a parking plaza. There is part of the original wall that was around old Stockholm. Also we went to the Natural Historical Museum and we were there three hours and did not get finished. We will go back again. It just blows my mind when I see things dating back to the 1300! During the day I bet we easily walked over 5 miles. We caught the train home and went to eat hamburgers at the Pub.
Sunday’s talks were on covenants. “Covenants are to strengthen and help us to know Christ and Our Father”
Great week and we love where we are and the people we associate with.