Norway- Part 2

Well, hopefully I'll get farther than last time:) I just wrote a huge long blog and my computer died, so I'm sorry ahead of time for not going into as much detail now. lol. I really hate computers sometimes!

Anyways, we traveled for 13ish hours and arrived in Kvitsund Saturday night. It was really nice to hang out with Christian, Autumn and their 4 girls! They loved it too because they dont have a whole lot of English speaking friends who are solid in the Lord.
They were such a blessing....Autumn cooked some amazing food for us too.

Sunday- October 12th was my birthday and it was a great day.
Before we left we had a big Italian dinner. Some ladies from the church came over and cooked a huge meal for all of us, their families, and the pastor and his family. They all suprised me with Tarimasu*sp?, turned off the lights, and brought the lit up tarimasu as they sang happy birthday.
My family sang me happy birthday on the phone also.
So, after church at Christian and Autumns house, Christian took all of us on a hike up Kristoppen. We had to canoe across the lake. It was intense I'm not going to lie because I have to say, Christian was previously a snipper in the Austrian army! lol.
Plus! Laura and I were the only girls so we had to be tough:) I almost felt like passing out a couple times, but we made it to the top to a beautiful view! We signed a book at the top of everyone who had climbed the mountain and we took plenty of pictures:) As we were getting ready to head back, everyone started singing me happy birthday:)
So we headed back down...some of us slid down at times on the leaf covered trail. It was quite funny.
That night, for the first time, we had supper(which is their 4th meal) with some of the students in the cafeteria. As we were eating, someone decided to sing happy birthday again for the 4th time! lol. So before I knew it I was surrounded by a ton of students that had never met me and I them, but they were all excited to sing because they are all really into making everyone feel loved.

All the students got back on Sunday or Monday. We pretty much had something planned every night, which was nice. Monday morning they introduced us to all the kids and opened it up to them as, we are here for you...if you need to talk...need prayer....we wont tell anyone, but we're here for you:)
Little did we know that would open it up for so many opportunities in the future week. There are too many to even say, but we were able to really encourage so many students. Kids were coming up to us and confessing sins, asking for prayer, and really wanting to hang out with us as much as they could. We loved it!

Here is what we did
By the way, there were also about five devotionals that we taught before different classes. They have devos before each class, which is cool. I taught a devo for the Nowegian class on Joshua 24.

Monday-dodgeball -a bunch of kids came and played a game of dodgeball in the gym till 11ish?

Tuesday-I sang with Paul for worship and then I also shared, along with 2 other guys, my testimony of how I was saved and how my life has been changed by Jesus. By the way, a lot of these kids have never decided to make Jesus Lord. Most are just saying that they are Christians.

Wednesday-concert in the coffee shop. Paul played the guitar and sang some songs he wrote and then I played a Phil Wickham song and one of the songs I wrote.

Thursday- more worship and Matt gave his testimony
-we extended the worship because the kids asked if we could play as much worship as possible because they loved it! They told us that they never have worship like that*its very conservative Lutheran-* They said that it seemed so personal and real:) Praise the Lord!

Friday- Candlelight walk to the stone church and sleepover

Ok I'm again going to have to go, but I will finish soon I promise:) There is just so much:) lol. Anyways, part 3 coming soon to a blog near you:) Also, if its annoying to check back randomly on here, I think you can subscribe to the blog so then it lets you know when I update it. Alright, Keep lovn Jesus!
Agape,
Bethany