New car

We drove to Oslo on Tuesday and picked up a new car which we drove back to Trondheim on Wednesday. Unfortunately, the new car is also a VW Polo and although new is still small. I was hoping for a Passat or someting in the large sedan class, but no such luck. The trip was beautiful and uneventful.

 On the way back we stopped to look at an old church (1767) that was near the roadway. The door was locked, but as I was preparing to leave the front steps, a man came up with keys in his hand and I asked if he was the priest here. He said no, he was the organist and was coming to practice, but if we wanted to look around we were welcome to do so. So we went in and looked around while he practiced a bit. Mom climbed the stairs to where the organ was, watched him for a few minutes, then when he finished the piece he was practicing, she started talking with him about the organ. This of course led to "may I play it", which he allowed her to do. She struggled a bit playing the piece he had been playing then he asked if she knew "abide with me". He found that hymn for her and she played it.  It made her day to be able to play this organ. The church is old, but the organ was installed in 1995. A beautiful pipe organ.

 When we were getting ready to leave the Johansen's home (MIssion president) yesterday morning, some men came to clean their carpets. After showing them in, Pres. Johansen came into the kitchen and said, "the carpet cleaner is from Denmark and when I told him I was from the US, he asked where and I said, 'Salt Lake City'.  He said, 'I am from American Fork'."  Mom saw one of the fellows and he had red hair, she asked if he was from America and he said, no, but my grandfather is, he just went to move the truck. She asked what his name was and he said, "Ken Andersen". She said, "Is your grandmother Marian?"  He said, "Yes". We knew them at BYU, Ken graduated in Mechanical engineering with me. We had a nice reunion when he came back in. It is amazing how small the world is. Ken was from Denmark and after graduating worked for about 5 years in the US, then went back to Denmark. He has had a Chemdry franchise for many years, and it is now in the 3rd generation of his family. He was there yesterday because someone else was sick and could not make the trip.

Here is the new car and the new organist for the Sør-Fron Kirke. 

love, 

dad