Hello everyone and welcome to the Girls Camp podcast Patreon, Girls Camp After Dark. You know who I am. It's your host,

Haley Rawl. Before we dive into the topic today, I need to give you some context because something

that Mormons do on the first Sunday of every month is they have a testimony meeting. Testimony meeting

is essentially an open mic day for members of

the congregation to get up, go to the pulpit, and share pretty much anything, though the idea is that

they would get up and share their testimony of the Mormon church and of Mormon doctrine, etc.

For some reason, this has really stuck with me, and it must have happened when I was

maybe a tween at the oldest, but there was an announcement made before testimony meeting

that I believe came from church headquarters. So I think this was announced in every single word,

although it could have been regional, but it was essentially cracking down on what people were

sharing in their testimonies. And one of the things that they said, you should not do is share a

travel log. They were really encouraging members to only get up and share essentially that the

church is true and how they know that and why they know that. And they were finding that members

were using their time at the stand, using the open mic, oftentimes to share about their recent

travels and then, you know, probably connect that to some sort

of testimony. But I just got back from Stockholm, Sweden. I went on a trip with my husband Bentley,

and I am going to share a travel log with you today. I want to talk about what we did,

some of the highlights of the trip. There were some travel mishaps, which always

make for some good stories in retrospect. And I'm going to be bearing my testimony of many

things along the way, of Stockholm as a place, of non-Mormon weddings. We were out there for a wedding,

of alcohol at weddings, of the Abba Museum,

of the importance of leaving your children sometimes. I just have a lot that I feel like I experienced

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