GOOD NEWS!

Okay okay.. it has been a while since I posted last time so I thought it would be time to catch up a little. Wow times has really gone by so fast again.. it keeps on surprising me all the time. so here comes some news!

First of all : for the spring 2009 I will be located in a YWAM base Grimerud,Norway!! I will be joining some prayer and worship ministries and travelling with a team around Norway. so from January until May I will be living back in Norway. I will send you guys a newsletter soon so I can tell you a bit more what is happening and how I ended up with a decision like this. I am so super excited about this coming spring and looking forward to see what God is up to and to go deeper in my relationship with him through prayer and worship! What an amazing opportunity God gave me!

Many things have happened these days! Annika, Lenneke and the rest of the Borgen DTS were here for 1 week in the beginning of November and that was.. SO good! it was so special to get to spend time with my best friend and have Lenneke over at my place and just be able to talk and share and laugh together again. I felt like God really spoiled me during this week and gave me these wonderful people for this time. there is also a person God has given into my life lately and that has also changed my life a lot and I keep praying for God's guidance and wisdom when it comes to this. :)

I am happy! It feels like things are just going wild all over me and so many things happening but still there is peace found in Him. and only Him. I am happy to get to spend Christmas home with my family before leaving again. It's amazing how God also organized someone to stay in my apartment for this coming spring.. I just couldn't believe it! Everything has went so smootly so far when it comes to preparing for the coming spring. For the ones who wonder about my studies.. so yes, I will be away from school this spring. I am going to try to do some courses online and some "distant assignements" as we would say in Finnish. But we will see. I must admit that everything (like EVERYTHING..) is open in my life and no clue what is gonna happen but.. I don't even need to know. He has it totally under control. for now it is enough that I take the first step.

.. so yes.. winter is totally here and it is snow and cold and I am liking it. it is so good. most of the December I will be only working, not doing so much school stuff. I try to finish my school things now before December and get them done. then I can just focus on working and being with family and getting ready for the new move.

Stay blessed.

SPECIAL PEOPLE.

I started to look through some old photos tonight and then I just had to post some here just to tell to all these people how special they are.
Here comes BEX.. you are such a bold woman of God. I am proud to be your friend and what you are going to do now is something that gives joy to my heart and even greater joy to God. Wow girl.




and here comes MELODIE! and she is getting married so soon!! I can't believe it! she is one of kind. I got to spend those 7 months together with this girl and she amazed me day after day. She is a gem.




The Highway 2006 with BARBARA and ANNIKA. It always brings smile to my face when I think about this week and how Barbie made it all the way from the Faroe Islands for the conference.. and it was stinking cold and not much sleep but so much fun.



My DTS outreach team 05-06. I love this picture (Turid and Oyvind are in the front). We had just incredibly good time together and so much joy in this team. and laughter. What an awesome outreach we had to Canada and Alaska.



.. and then comes this girl. and I don't know what to say about her. She is the best friend I have ever had after Jesus. :) she is really a girl I have learned to know and love and we have spent some amazing years together. ANNIKA is her name.
you remember this evening?! haha. oijoijoi. good times, good times.I miss her and all the weird things we did together. it's funny how I actually was scared of her when we first met on our DTS and it took some time to get to know each other ;) but well well, what happened.






LENNEKE is such an adorable girl from Holland. I think I have had so many enjoyable conversations with her. the first one coming to my mind is last winter in Mali when we were both sick and we had to stay back from church one Sunday. what an encourager she is!! this picture shows pretty well the picture I have about her in my heart :) she is so excited about things. and this picture was taken on our trip to Sweden together.


... oh and there would be so many others!!! Turid also. and Bea!! What a wonderful woman. Well I think I am just missing my Borgen years so much at this moment that I had to do this and I hope this encouraged you. What a blessing it is to have so many awesome friends!!


AND then this movie. after our powerful prayer walk! Kautokeino was awesome.

NORWAY TRIP COMING UP!!!

I forgot to mention, that..

.. the children choir my sister is leading here in Rovaniemi (www.jippiimissio.fi) is doing a little tour in Norway this winter like they did last year! This time I am able to join them and it gets me really excited!! We have been practising the songs in Norwegian now and it is amazing to hear how excited those kids are to go again and be able to tell about Jesus to other children their own age, and even in another language. I am so proud to go with them. So I will be helping out my sister with practical things and some little translation and we will see what comes up.. it's a lot to do with 40 kids :)

so from 14th of November until 18th of November we will be going to all the way to the North of Norway, to these tiny places called Båtsfjord, Berlevåg, Vadso and TanaBru. I am just too excited to see what God has for this trip.. how He is going to use all of us. And the songs are amazing, I am loving them already :) okay I just had to write it now when I rememberd it so you guys can also remember us in prayer when we go!



" La meg få väre i din närhet kjäre Jesus, la meg bli overrasket av din herlighet.
Du er min Gud, himlenes Konge.
I hjertet mitt er navnet ditt alt skrevet ned."

BEAUTIFUL FALL.

... and my school has started! It has been 1 month now since I started studyin in the University of Lapland. I must say it has been pretty much different than these past years of my life but also interesting in a way. I have to admit right away that I still don't know if I am gonna keep on studying this subject cause everything in my life is still so incredibly open. But one thing I have been able to understand.. God can use you no matter how small and "not important" you feel yourself. and it has been kinda crazy, this whole fall, struggling back and forth if I am doing right or wrong and if I am telling what God tells me to do and what really is my calling and all these things. and you so easily forget that there are actually people around you, YES, and that maybe God wants to use you right there with those people! and I know this is something that everyone knows and I have know it also, of course, but never really understood it before these days. and it's pretty amazing, it amazes me every day. that no matter how bad I struggle and try to find the way and go back and forth, still God is the same. He does not change. and oh man it is so good to know!! so I must say God has done some pretty incredible things and I am sure He is up to something even greater. Wow.

I miss Borgen and miss those familiar faces around me. But there is time for everything and actually I think it's time for me to be here and go through these things. Sometimes I feel myself a little lonely after those YWAM years and having people around me constantly :) But God is giving new people around me all the time and why should I be sad.. He is with me anyways! and Annika only a skype call away ;)

Well well.. what else. I am still very excited about future and my heart is full of joy and happiness! I am so looking forward to see and wait what God has in store for me. I am greatful.
... and I am planning some trips here and there and hopefully I will see some of you very soon.
Now I think I gotta keep on making pan cakes. My parents are stopping by soon. They just back home from their trip to Norway and they spent 3 nights at Borgen and I can't believe I could not go with them.. but oh well. Soon soon, I will get my chance! Okay.. pan cakes calling me. (Bex and Lenneke : the thought of you two teaching Leivur how to make pan cakes makes me smile every time I hear the word "pan cake" :)

Bless bless friends.

DADDY TURNED 65!

CRAZY DAYS.

God is kinda cool.
I am living this life and trying to figure out what God wants me to do and where to go.
And He KNOWS. He knows where He wants me. It's kinda mindblowing every time I think about it. I am loving this kinda life.

It has not been always just easy days here. Some days go by and I am not happy, not where I would like to be, not excited about anything and doubting if this is what I am supposed to do. Some days I am happy, enjoying my life, and pretty satisfied what is happening. My school starts next week and I have decided to start the school and see until Christmas (fall lecture) how it goes.

Some things have changed in my life during this past month and in one way I am happier and more excited than I can remember, I am so excited to see what God is up to! Even though there is still SO MUCH confusion inside of me and things I already mentioned before, I could say that the word of this month is EXCITEMENT. For sure! My heart is beating and it tingles everywhere when I think about my future and all the things God will guide me through.
Seriously.. it TINGLES! :) it's scary and it looks like I have no control over the plans I made years ago about my life, but I can tell you.. it feels good! Just the fact that I don't know is something I have never really gone through before.. or not at this level at least. And it just makes me so excited cause I know God is doing something in me. Something new.

I know this might just sound like a one big mess.. and I can tell you, it surely feels like it almost every day. But then God comes and pours out His goodness and peace as always. His faithfulness. Wow.. what can you say? I am enjoying praying more and more. Just chatting with God. What a Daddy we have guys! Oh well..

..I have forgotten to tell you about The Higway and all the other things! :) it was such a great weekend and I enjoyed having Annika, Lene and Katya here! Milka and Hilla were also here so we had a little DTS reunion. It was really busy so I did not have as much time as I wanted to spend with the girls and that was sad :/ I believe God really touched people during these days and it was such a priviledge to be part of that. I enjoyed playing in the worship band which my sister was leading. Okay I think it's time for some photos.. so here they come!

CONFUSION IN THE AIR.

WOW..
what a trip I had.
Now I am back home and even more confused than before.
There are just tons of options I could do.. there is so much I want to do. I feel I could run to 5 different directions right now. And the thought I should start studying soon is so far away from me and my heart. I think I just really need to sit down with God and have a talk.

There is one new thing I was challenged last weekend and more than anything right now I would like to go for it and be part of it. It's just something I've always dreamt of and my heart is just bumping when I think about it and how much I would love it. But God has his timing and He will let me know when to go and where. Oh it's just so difficult to wait!!

I had such a good trip. This was a God-trip. God-planned trip 100%. Just they way things went even before leaving, that I got so many days off from work, was a miracle. and then Friday night when I was almost going back home and having hard time, God was up to something and told me to stay. And I am so happy I did.

Okay anyways.. if I pop up into your mind one of these days, shoot a little prayer that I would know what to do and decide. It's kinda funny, I've never been in this kinda situation.. every year it has been quite clear for me where God wanted me to go and be. and now it's like.. WHAT? I have no clue! I honestly don't have a clue where I should be and what to do. I know I will start my studies in September but that's all I know.. that I'll START.

Gosh it's difficult to stay away from YWAM I tell you! :)
and here comes some photos from the trip.
Bless.