STOCKHOLM

  We put Rich and Natalie on the train to Paris last Wednesday, then hopped in the car to fill an assignment this past weekend in Stockholm Sweden.  We made it to Copenhagen Thursday night. taking the ½ hour longer land route up Denmark to avoid the cost of the ferry, but found we had to take a toll bridge which was about the cost of the ferry anyway (sometimes being cheap backfires).  Then we let the Garmin pick the route out of Copenhagen on Friday and it took us straight north to another ferry instead of across the bridge to Malmo, the land route.  I think a Rick Steve’s Denmark book may have been worth the price.  We made it to Stockholm Friday night in time for the 6pm endowment session.  Elaine and I got to be the witness couple as there were only 2 others on the session.  We are staying at the temple apartments which are much nicer than our Frankfurt apartments and have met the couples serving here. Interesting they are Johnsons and Hansons who served Sweden or Norway missions in their youth!  We felt the spirit of Spence and Joyce Jenson here.  They presided at the temple back in 2000.  Our Sweden PA director’s daughter was sealed by President Jenson and Sister Jenson is still remembered for her unusual sense of humor and for being a card cheat. :) We spent Saturday with Sister Ingrid Nilsson as she trained her stake PA directors and they made their plans for 2013-14.  We shared with the group some of the presentations made at the Brussels seminar in April.  On Sunday we attended church and Elaine took photos in the meetings for use on Sweden’s newsroom website to illustrate stories that appear there.  After church Sister Nilsson invited us to her home for a wonderful dinner.  As it was Mother’s Day in Sweden, 3 of her daughters came with their husbands and children to honor their mother and grandma.  It was a beautiful site and made us long for our own family back home.

Public Affairs Team Sweden at the Stockholm Temple