The odds of our being called to return six months early from our two-year mission were certainly not on our radar – especially and definitely not in the beginning when we arrived the year before in October of 2018. Neither did we expect on March 12 a phone call from our mission president with the…

There is a saying here in Sweden that whatever you find yourself busy at doing on New Year’s day, it will be what you will be doing the rest of the year. So, with that philosophy in mind, many make sure they get their housekeeping done well before Jan 1st! Never one to let good…

Swedish Christmas… In Sweden you ‘feel’ it when Christmas is here. All around you see the lights of the season in all the windows, in stores, and holiday places! But you have to listen softly to hear the message of the Holy birth of the Savior and what it means for each of us in…

Settling down with a good book…or attending a show performance is exciting and relaxing. Giving yourself permission to simply enjoy being taken wherever the music or the story line takes you is a wonderful feeling. Sharing the many talents of others is inspiring! So often we remark to ourselves how much we wish we could…

Last year when we arrived in Sweden the leaves were almost at the height of their glorious display – this year we have watched the performance from the beginning until almost now, to the end. What a show! Just amazing. Every day it takes your breath away to see the blending of the leaves in…

And guess where ours just moved to?! Stockholm! 17th September we packed our gear, saddled the horses and hightailed it to Hägersten…a slightly southwest suburb of Sweden’s capitol city of Stockholm … It is a little hard to move after spending the first part of our mission – 11 months – in the special Shangri…

Questions of the soul…everybody has them! They are wound around your heart most likely hovering because it’s pretty confusing trying to figure out the answers…especially when life as we know it offers us multiple choice answers that are anything but satisfying. The good news is that we were sent down here on earth for each…

We’re so glad that Heavenly Father decided to add families, love, music, color, flowers, trees, and birds and so many other wonderful reminders of how much he cares for us when he created the earth! The list of ‘sub-categories’ would be endless! In actuality, Sweden is as typical as any country on the planet, as…

Christmas was seemingly never going to come…and your birthday was forever away and not getting here fast enough….remember? When you think back about when time was only good for telling you when school was over, you have to shake your head as you think nowadays about the irony of time flying past so quickly that…

In case anyone ever wished to know just what it is that we do as missionaries every day, we’d like to share a little information to give you an idea of how extraordinarily ordinary people as ourselves function and serve as missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints here in Sweden. To…