Valentines & Weddings - Love Is All Around in Tromsø




I feel it in my fingers
I feel it in my toes
The love that's all around me
And so the feeling grows...

 In Norway, secret admirers send the objects of their desire funny little poems called gaekkebrev, the only clue to their identity being a dot representing each letter of his name. If the recipient guesses who the poem is from, they earn themselves an Easter egg on Easter. If she's stumped, she has to give the man an egg.....

 Traditions may vary but love still abounds, not only for each other and family but also this land.
This pin on Ingeborg's Bunad is Prillarguri about a girl who blows her horn to send messages to the people in the next valley. 

Anton & Ingeborg were married in the Stockholm temple in December.  We celebrated that event with them in Feb at a ring exchange ceremony







We love this cute couple!   


Ingeborg entered the room playing a song for their reception.

Their first dance. 

Good friends, good times.





Getting ready to throw the bouquet.

Ingeborg's Finnish bunad.






Ole Jensen enjoying ice cream.

Ole Jensen treated us to dinner for his birthday.  It was yummy.

We helped make the salad and a few other fixins.


Einar Tobieson who lives on Senya Island.

Visitors at church with Sisters Neal and Starkie.

Valentine branch party.  Elder Holyoak, Baughan, Mats and Alexander.

Janne and Chris Erno Hansen

Sister Starkie, Sister Neal and Ingeborg.

Erno joined Janne and Chris Erno.

Chris Erno actually had a lot of fun at this one



Mats & Dad


Juvy, Elin and Inger Elisabeth.

Janne and Me.


Matts and Dad



One of the evenings highlights was everyone attempting Dance Dance Revolution

Dance, Dance Revolution was a hit!













still a little boogie in this old couple

when Elder Baughan couldn't beat Alexander he tried to do with his hands instead of his feet.

kiss the frog 


Mats enjoying a plate of cheetos?

Friends and sisters in the gospel.


Bringing treats to Johanne.


a "kick" sled or Spark on Johanne's porch. 

Janne and Sister Starkie.


A troll in the snow at one of Johanne's neighbors

Sister Starkie and Neal and Elders Baughan and Holyoak. 

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