Sunday, November 19, 2023

Nov 19 - 4 in 1 and Sweden memories

 Today at First Baptist it was 1 service instead of 4 as the 8:30 Traditional, 9:55 & 11 Contemporary & 1pm Hispanic all met together at 10am. It was a beautiful service with all groups sharing in leading in worship, partaking of communion at the close of the service plus commissioning a couple headed to the mission field. 

Tonight while Kris and Laurie headed to handbell and choir practice I stayed home and Damos and I took a couple of walks and I looked through some old pictures from Sweden and found the pictures of the blacksmith shop my grandfather, great grandfather and great great grandfather worked in which I saw during our 1977 and 2006 trip. Both times the blacksmith shop was just as it was left the last time it was used! Pretty amazing! I also found my journal from that trip and have so enjoyed reading it tonight! It is 17 pages long, I’ve only read 3 pages but it comes alive as I read each entry! Such incredible memories! I’m so glad I have the written text! Maybe for fun I’ll include a couple pictures from that trip!


My dad’s Uncle Richard in the blacksmith building. Uncle Erik was my grandpa Aronson’s brother. Taken 1977

Blacksmith building in Falun Sweden. Below random pictures of the inside of the building from 2006.






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