This is the couple that remembers Zach when he served in Lappeenranta and Helsinki. They are wonderful people and they do speak some English!!We have been called to be Shift Leaders for the month of March. It is much different than being a shift coordinator at home. You are the day shift leader on Tue, Wed, Thurs and Fri with different workers coming every day. It is a challenge but we are glad to take our turn! This month we will have different wards and stakes from Sweden plus a group from Norway. This past week we have been receiving some training to be shift leaders. I think the February shift leaders are glad to have us out of their hair and to have their turn over. The Ensign’s have set a good example for us to follow.
We have really enjoyed watching the Olympics. Go USA! It is obvious what events the people like as we have seen a lot of skiing events and curling. The opening ceremonies were marvelous.
Syster Nilsson (waiting for her visa to come to SL and work in Family History) came one night and helped us know more about the New Family Search program. We did look at some Swedish records and found verification of families and birth dates for some of my relatives. However, we did not find where our name changes from Jansson to Nyman. She said it probably occurred with something to do with the military. But it was thrilling to see what I did see. We could enjoy doing genealogy!
Enjoy our Skype with each family and we were surprised to see that CJ has now become the BIG brother! They all looked so sharp in their Sunday clothes; sorry we made you late for church.
We went into Stockholm and purchased our tickets to go to Copenhagen in April. It will be a little costly to stay in a hotel and eat out but we need to go see Vera (Chuck baptized her when he was a young elder in Denmark) as her health is failing. I guess we could just not eat!
This is the picture of our late Valentine dinner when the group went to Nynäshamn.
We really had a fun evening and the atmosphere could not have been any better. The Kroken was down on the harbor plus it was snowing.We had a good Skype visit with the Tobler’s and it thrills us to see the kids be excited to see us. Janey just keeps waving her hands.
Chuck’s did a marvelous job in giving his talk in church. There were several people from the temple who are not in our ward who came to support him and hear him speak Swedish. Syster Dahlö, from Norway, said she could understand him better than most Swede’s! The American Couples also sang a song and they said our song was beautiful too. I received a ward calling to be one of the Primary pianists. Their song books have been used so much that my book starts on pg 17. I will have to find time to practice, and I am sure that my mom is saying “now you know why you should have practiced more”. The other pianist is Syster Parker from Provo.
Sunday evening we had a night of singing put on by the Bautista family for the guests of the Guest Home.
Bror Bautista is one of the engineers at the temple and his whole family sings. Two of the daughters are involved in the music profession. They are marvelous. It is the same family that we were so impressed with when we went to one of their concerts at Christmas time. They sang two of my favorite songs, Be Still my Soul and A Child’s prayer.Hope all is well with everyone. We will gladly ship you some snow.
They have been on the roof of the church clearing snow off all day.We love the Lord and are so thankful for all our blessing. We are thankful for the gospel and our knowledge of how to be a forever family. We give thanks for your support, your emails, prayers, packages and letters. We can feel your love.
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