Week of February 21st

I started the week with doing a deep cleaning of the apartment. I even got rid of the dust bunnies under the beds! We went to Pizza Hut and had the buffet for our lunch on Monday. We went to SIBA and bought a cord to connect the computer to the TV so we can watch what is on the computer over the TV.
The beginning of the week was very cold -19C but it did warm up some and we received some snow. Saturday was a beautiful day with mostly sun and temperatures around +3C.
We did exercise three times this week in the exercise room. Once in the morning (5:30), once while we were waiting for our clothes to wash and because we worked the Friday night shift we exercised on Friday morning. Saturday we did a lot of walking but it was all outdoors.
We served Friday night in the temple so it was a little later when we got home. We had not eaten since breakfast so we were a little hungry. I had crackers and cheese and some hot chocolate and Chuck had a dish of cold cereal. It reminded me of Shannon and how she survived on cold cereal while she attended BYU. Knowing we did not serve on Saturday we watched some skiing on TV and then a movie. After the movie a concert by Rozanne Cash came on and we watch it until 1:00am. It was so fun to hear western music we even took off our slippers and danced! Crazy? Yes, but it was fun.

After sleeping in a little on Saturday morning and after breakfast we took the train into Stockholm to do some gift shopping for the grandkids. We walked and walked and walked some more. We could have taken the bus or trolley but we saved the money and got our exercising done in the sun. When we got home we were very tired and a little stiff.
I was released from my calling in the Primary on Sunday and then we were asked to talk in church (again) in two weeks.
The visiting group has been from Skein, Sandvika, Tönsberg, Romerike and Hamar all from Norway. They had plenty of people to have their own shift and they had a lot of youth come for baptisms. They had rented a bus and 65 kids were on the bus for 12 hours. They came to the temple in three groups on Tuesday then some of them returned Wednesday morning. They got back on the bus about noon on Wednesday and traveled for 12 hours back to Norway. Great kids and they were so excited to come and spend the time in the temple. It amazes me that they would give up half of their winter vacation from school and travel that far and be so excited to come to the temple. What an example they are to everyone.
They changed our Shift Leader calling and now we will only do it the last two weeks in March. Bro and Syster Mattsson are going to be the new shift leaders. They have been here at
the temple for six months and have not had this opportunity so they will be the leaders for the first three weeks of March. They go home to Göteborg the first of April. They will do a great job and it would be just fine with us if they did it for the whole month.
Thanks for Skype time, emails and letters. Thanks for your love and prayers, your support and concerns. We love you and we are so thankful for the blessings you are in our lives. Have a great week!