Picking up Äldste Sam Francis! July 4, 2019

On the morning of July 4, 2019, Mark, Nettie and Ben picked up Elder Sam Francis at the Sweden Stockholm Mission Home. 

It was a cool day with pockets of rain, the mission home was absolutely lovely, and the emotions we all felt were sacred! It was better than Christmas morning.

We spent over an hour at the mission home visiting with the other parents and missionaries going home and with President and Sister Youngberg.

We left the mission home and drove to the Stockholm Temple where we did a session - in Norwegian!

We then took the train all together back into downtown Stockholm and took a canal tour through the islands of the city. It was so much fun and very informative! After a dinner indowntown Gamlastan, we rode back to the car (parked at the temple) and drove south to Vastervik where we stayed for the night.

We spent the next 5 days traveling with Sam through Vaxjo, Stockholm, Lulea, Jakobsberg, Haninge, and Boden before we flew out of Copenhagen on July 11th.

A memory we will always treasure!

Växjö Week 24 - July 1, 2019

With President Peter Stokes, his wife, Glenda, and Elder Olson

Hello Everyone!

This has been a wonderful week! This will probably be the shortest email I have sent over the past two years, I am sorry about that.

With Thomas and Ewa Carlson and their daughter Jessica and grandson Vincent

I blessed the sacrament in Swedish for perhaps the last time yesterday. I really love the words of the sacrament prayer in English and Swedish, and I am glad that taking the sacrament is one thing that will not change when I return home. I got to give a talk on commandments in sacrament meeting yesterday and I was also able to bear my testimony to this wonderful branch.

We had the funnest fika ever after church and I took pictures with some of the branch memebers. Also! Elder Olson and I sang "Peace in Christ" in Swedish during sacrament meeting with a friend of ours named Diego.