Week of July 12th

I started the week out with a haircut! I actually found a lady I liked and she did understand some English. Most of the ladies in the guesthouse have this lady cut their hair so I gave her a try. Sister Evensen walked to Jårdbro with me (45 minutes) and waited for me then we bought an ice cream and ate it as we walked back home. It was a very hot day and my hair was straight and wet when I got home. Oh well, I like the cut!
The weather has been VERY HOT with high humidity and they say it has not been this hot since 1880. Wow, how lucky are we to be here during the coldest winter in 130 years and now the hottest summer. We have no air conditioning but we manage with the fan and it cools down on most nights so we can sleep. We get up at 5:30, when it is still cool, and do our power walking. About the only thing you hear at that time of the morning are the birds! We usually go walking in the woods by the Viking Burial grounds.
The missionary couple, Raymond and Christine Sheen, from Canada finally got their visas so they arrived on Thursday afternoon. They will start at the temple tomorrow and we are thrilled to have them. On Sunday we had a fun dinner to get to know them. They are having problems with jet lag!

(Chuck & Brother Höglund)

The Family History missionaries that live in the guesthouse taught us how to do ‘indexing’ and it is very addicting! Chuck and I have both signed up and he has done over 150 names since Thursday and I have done over 100. Maybe if we help in this way we will be blessed to find some on our own lines!
Our Swedish culture class this week was on Swedish art and writers. Dr Chip Oscarson really knows his subject matter and it is really interesting to be in a class like this.
We enjoy the 3rd concert of the series in celebrating the 25th anniversary of the temple in Sweden. We have one more next week. This week Pres Jan Evensen talked and a wonderful Norwegian concert pianist, who is also a member of the Church, played the piano for about half an hour. Sister Anneli Rebecka Larsen was absolutely marvelous and it was exciting to watch her perform. She will perform next week too.
This week the traveling group has been from the Oslo Stav (stake). They had so many people come that the guesthouse was full and there were at least 25 families camping at different campgrounds. The youth did almost 5000 baptisms this week. They had double sessions, two ‘init’ booths busy and three sealing rooms full. What awesome people they are to spend a week’s vacation here in The House of the Lord.
The Swedish people have gone on vacation so the number of workers on our day shifts were low. But we did have some good sessions and there were some wonderful people who
Chuck & Brother Höglund
attended. Oh how we love the temple and the peaceful spirit that is there. I was blessed with a wonderful tender mercy on Saturday. I love when the spiritual help comes.
We have enjoyed the weekly emails this week and our skype time with the Tobler family. Thanks for all the prayers and thoughts and support.