Week of 2 August

Happy Birthday Summer!

This week has been rainy and cloudy and we now really understand why these people worship the sun! It has been much cooler and we have even had some lightening and loud thunder.

Monday we ventured into Stockholm, with the Evensen’s, despite the rain!

It really rained hard and the museum we went to see was not open so we went on a boat tour called “Stockholm under the bridge”. It took us around the little islands and by some of the tourist places we might want to go see. The boat ride lasted almost 2 hours and it rained the whole time. Oh well, we made a wet day a fun day. On the way home there were train problems. The train was late, then it broke down and we had to get off and wait for another train. Instead of a 30 min ride from Stockholm it took us over an hour.

Our month as serving as Shift Leaders is over and it is wonderful to be able to participate in the ordinances again. The visiting group this week has been the Stockholm Stake and most days have been busy. Saturday was really busy with a lot of sealing’s and big sessions. This week we had a darling girl from Norway come for the first time. She will return in 14 days to be married.

We usually go out to dinner on Saturdays with the Söderquists and Evensens. This week the Söderquists were not home so we went in the car and went to the Grekiska Kolgrillen (a Greek restaurant. We get tired of the places around here to eat so it was fun to go someplace new. And it was raining!!

Our cultural class this week was taught by Bryan Söderquist from Denmark. He and his son have been here visiting with his parents. He talked about famous philosophers from Denmark. It was very interesting, and he is a good teacher. He has a PhD and teaches at the University in Copenhagen.

We are still having fun with indexing and each of us have done around 400 names now.

On Sunday we were invited for dinner with the Bautista family. Brother Bautista is an assistant engineer at the temple. He is from the Canary Islands and she is from Sweden. They have 9 kids and are very musically talented. They do concerts all the time and really are awesome. The youngest son, John, is going to the MTC on the 28th of Sept. He will be serving in the Utah St. George Mission. We had a great dinner and really enjoyed being in their home. We did not get back until after 10:30 (22:30). They are planning to do one more concert before John leaves and we are excited to go.

Well, that is about it for another week. Again thanks for Skype (what a blessing), emails, letters and prayers. We love our family and special friends and neighbors. We feel your love, concern and prayers in our behalf. Thanks!