All of the American’s in the Guest House were invited to dinner at the Klarin’s. Sister Klarin served a delicious ham dinner and a yummy caramel custard dessert. I think they considered it a Home Teaching visit for all of us! We did have a delightful evening and enjoyed ourselves.
We have both struggled with a little cold this week. Mine has been worse than Chuck’s. Thanks to Vitamin C and Emergen-C, plus the hot rice pack for my head, we are feeling much better now and we were blessed not to miss any days at the temple.
It has rained some this week so a lot of the snow has melted. Most of the roads and sidewalks are wet and then at night covered with black ice so they are hard to walk and drive on. The days are getting longer. It starts to get light about 7:30 AM and is dark about 4:00 PM. We have about 6 more minutes of daylight each day. It is crazy how fast it changes.
There are two wards in Västerhaninge and they have combined the two for Sunday School, Priesthood, Relief Society, YM and YW and Primary. We go to church at 1:00 then they join us at 2:20 for Sunday School, 3:10 for RS, Priesthood, YW and Primary then we are through at 4:00 and they have their Sacrament from 4:10 to 5:20! See it could be worse than 1-4!! This Sunday was our first Sunday and Primary was crazy! I am sure it will get better as they work out who is in charge and where to help each other. I am still playing the piano, and I can still hear my mother telling me to practice.
Chuck has had the recommend desk at the temple three times this week. A ward group, including their youth, came for the later part of the week and had their own sessions. They were from Jököping and some of these people we will not see again before we go home.
One special family, the Nilsson’s, were here and we have grown so close to them. They are a marvelous family and their youngest daughter came for the first time. Just before they went home they were eating dinner together so we took their picture. It was very hard to say good bye to them.
There was a family from Finland here this week and I was blessed to work in the baptistry when two of their daughters were being baptized. We have known their oldest daughter for a while as she lives in Stockholm and just married a wonderful guy from Sweden. This whole family radiates the love of Jesus Christ. Another blessing to count in our lives.
Saturday we had an 8:00 AM Spanish session. There were 6 Spanish speaking people on the session, with 11 Swedish speaking people, and 1 English speaking person who used headphones. Then the 10:00 session was in Swedish and the six Spanish people used headphones. I have now done all the women ordinances in Swedish. I still get tongue-tied sometimes but I have been blessed to attain that goal.
Saturday after the temple we took our walking sticks and walked through the Viking cemetery. It has been a long time since we have taken that walk and it was nice to do so. The snow is so high you cannot see the rock-headstones but it was exercise. It started to rain/snow before we got home so we were a little wet.
The kids sent me a necklace for Christmas and it is named “Ima”. They found out that Ima in Hebrew means ‘mother’. I am proud to wear this necklace bearing the name of this wonderful mother that I love.
The kids sent Chuck a puzzle that is a goggle map of our house and the area we live. It incorporates about a 2 mile radius and looks like it will take a while to get it together. Hope we can finish it before we come home. We might be eating dinner on the couch as the puzzle is on the table.
We certainly do want to thank you for all the Christmas cards, letters, packages, emails, Skype time, love and support we received during this wonderful season of the year. May this New Year fill your homes with many blessings and a greater determination to live the gospel.
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