Happy Birthday Zach!!!

This has been the last week of Swedish vacations. It seems the whole nation goes on vacation. Stores have a sign in their window saying ‘gone on vacation’. Because of vacations some days at the temple have been slow and others very busy.

We have both enjoyed doing ‘indexing’ for family search. We have both entered close to 300 names. It is easy to do and needs to be done and we are working on marriage records from Utah. It does not take very long to do a batch and we feel like we are helping someone!

The last of Aug we are going to attend the Swedish National Family History Convention in Örebro. We are going to help Elder and Sister Merritt with the church booth and we will NOT be allowed to wear our nametags, since the convention is not affiliated with the church. We will be gone for 4 days. We will tell people about indexing and how important it is. We will try to encourage others to get started doing it. Maybe some of you would like to do it. We are excited to go help but I certainly hope the Lord will help me with answers. They will have 8 computers set up to teach people.

Our Swedish class this week was on the Vikings and Rune Stones. It was very interesting and knowing that the Stockholm Temple is built on a Viking Burial ground made it even more meaningful.

This has been our last week of being Day-Shift Leaders at the temple. The shift leaders have the responsibility for scheduling all the work assignments in the temple. It does involve many hours of extra work. This past week we had the group from Göteborg and they were very helpful and wonderful to have. They did not have enough people come to have their own sessions so they were included in the day shift. They had a man’s shift leader but not a woman’s shift leader. We had a great week with some great people.

The sessions this week have been big. For three days we had 2 or 3 sessions going at the same time at 10:00, at 13:00 and then a large session at 15:00. We were very busy in the other ordinances also. One day we had two Swedish sessions and an English session going at the same time. We had a Slade family group who came from the United States and wanted to do their own session. Then on Saturday we had two sessions with one session being in Spanish.

Dad got to use his Danish this week as a couple came from Denmark. In talking to them we discovered the man is the 1st counselor to Benny Jensen in the Branch Presidency in Silkeborg. Benny is the husband of the last person Dad baptized before leaving Denmark. Vera and Benny had sent their greetings but the couple could not remember our names. Small world!

There was also another young man here from Denmark this week. He had been doing his own family history names. I kept calling him ‘the guy from Denmark’. Finally I asked his

name so I did not have to call him ‘the guy from Denmark’. His name was Hans Christian and he said he could tell I loved the temple.

We have had some very spiritual experiences this week and we are so grateful for the kind hand of the Lord and His influence in our lives.

We enjoyed our Skype turn with the Owen family and hearing about Scout Camp, seeing the wood projects, Summer’s poses and Addie’s smiles. It was good to talk to Zach this time and we always enjoy talking to Ginet.

Thanks for your prayers, letters, emails, love and concerns. We love you!