Thankfulness...

Praise God! This weekend has been just amazing and wonderful!! I feel soooo blessed!!! It is wonderful being back here in Tartu! The vacation was great, but it is sooo good to get started with the spring term with everything that holds! I am just soooo in love with Jesus and I am just soooo thankful for all the amazing things that He has done and is doing and all that He will do in my life!!! I really encourage you, that if you feel down or just not full of thankfulness to God, to start praising Him!!! Start worshipping God in the midst of the storm...Start thanking God for all the good things in your life! You will be amazed at how long the list gets!!! He is just soooo good!!! And our Heavenly Father only has good things in store for us!!! Praise God!!! :-)

I am thankful that I can be a child of God, that Jesus has paid the price for me, that I can know Him, that He is everything I need, that all my sources are in Him!!! I am thankful for my family, for my wonderful friends, for my relatives, for my amazing church and leaders and sisters and brothers in Christ! I am thankful that I have been able to live abroad in the countries I´ve lived, I am thankful that I was able to go to Hillsong College. I am thankful that I can study medicine, that I have a beautiful appartment, that I have food on the table, that I have a bed to sleep in, that I am able to pay my bills, that I am healthy, that I have a hope and a brigth future, that the best is yet to come, that I can serve my wonderful Lord and Saviour, that I can have fellowship with the Holy Spirit, that I can worship God, that I can pray, that I can have peace in the midst of the storm, that His grace is sufficient for me and that His strength is made perfect in my weekness, that I can sing and play and laugh, talk, run, dance, jump, feel emotions, breath, live... I am thankful that I can rejoyce and fix my eyes on Jesus, I am thankful that I am never alone, cause he has promised to never leave me nor forsake me, I am thankful that I am the princess of the most high King, that I am the apple of His eye, that I can be free to love, free to dance, free to sing... I am thankful that He has changed my life and continues to change me from glory to glory, I am thankful that God wants to use little me, I am thankful that I have a calling upon my life, I am thankful to be blessed to be a blessing, I am thankful to live in a free country where there is peace and the freedom of speach, I am thankful that I dont have to fear for my life or fear for the lives of the ones I love, I am thankful that there is a greater purpose to life that just to excist and then die, I am thankful for the Word of God, I am thankful for all the people that have spoken into my life and encouraged me along the way, I am thankful for all the wonderful teaching I have received, I am thankful that God has and keeps on protecting me, I am thankful that I can be me, and that God loves me and accepts me for who I am, I am thankful for all my friends that love me, I am thankful for all the people I get to bless, I am thankful that I have a reason for living, I am thankful that God has so many wonderful promises and exciting things in store for me, I am thankful that I have an amazing Father in Heaven that will supply all my needs and who loves me and who gives me so many things to be thankful for that I cannot even name them all... PRAISE GOD!!! :-D

p.s. If you are not smiling by this time you should go and have your smile muscles checked.If you dont feel overwhelmingly happy and thankful by this time, you should go and have your pulse checked out and see if there is anything at all running through your veins...;-)God is sooooo good!!! :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-D :-D :-D:-D :-D :-D

A bit more vacation updates...

So now my vacation has almost come to an end... I am back at Uni on this upcoming Monday... But now some more updates on the time that has gone by...

This last week and a half, I have spent both in Liljendal, Helsinki/Helsingfors and in Turku/Åbo.. and some time in Porvoo/Borgå... In Liljendal I was mostly chilling, going for walks, reading, ect.. You can see some wintery pictures of me and my dog, Funny... unfortunately the snow didnt last for too long...I was already planning going skiing..but no... instead I did try a little of the ice while being out walking that I fell straight backwards in a hill, leaving nice blue marks... he he..but no broken bones... I told my dad, when he said that thank God I didnt break anything, "You´d have to have a motorsaw to break my bones..." I will not proove myself to be right...but at least it is close to the truth, I think, since I have never ever broken a bone in my entire almost 25-year-old body... he he...

Funny and I outside our house in Liljendal...

Winter weather... (isnt she the cutest dog you´ve ever seen??)

Last week Tuesday Jesus Revolution was in Borgå holding a concert in the evening. I got three of "my girls" with me from Liljendal and we went there... It was a nice evening and good to see old and new people..:-)

Jesus Revolution in Borgå...

"My girls" Linnea, Sandra and Ebisse...:-)

Then last week Thursday I overcame myself and got up at 6am to go to Borgå... We only had one car available, so I drove mom to work to 7.30 and then I went swimming in Borgå... It was sooooo nice!!! I was swimming for one hour and then I sat in the steem sauna for quite some time just enjoying life and relaxing!!! Sooooo goood!!!!!!!!!! :-) After that I headed to Maria Åsvik´s place and we had some nice time catching up and pondering on the exciting life with God. We then went out to eat lunch at a Chinese restaurant in town... So great to spend time with my big sister in Christ! :-) After that I just had to go and pick up mom from work (he he sounds almost like picking up the kids, ey, a little backwards..She works at a kindergarden...). I then drove straight to my next "meeting" with Minna at Liljendal Shell. We had a nice catching up time over some tea and chocolate..he he.. That reminded me of how fast time flies!!! I had´t really seen her since last summer we concluded!!! CRAZY!! I have no pictures of her here, cause she refused on me taking any so... Even papparazzi herself couldnt violate that wish...;-) I also got a nice evening that Wednesday with my grandparents! It was great seeing them again and just spending time with them! I cherish each of those moments!!!

Maria at the Chinese Restaurant...:-)

Then Friday to Sunday Hanna and I went to Turku/Åbo for a Network 21 Weekend Seminar. The main speaker was Peter Cox from Australia!!! It was a really great and inspiring weekend and it really challenged me in many different ways!! No words can really describe it... It is like one of the speakers said..."It´s like trying to describe what cinnamon tastes like...". But it was deffinately a special weekend... Here are some pics from there...

WES- Peter Cox, Mats Holmberg and Beni Jaskari having a little show...:-)


Peter Cox speaking at WES...

After the weekend I still went to Liljendal for a couple of days before I headed to Helsinki with all my luggage!!! I stayed at Hanna´s place and we had some more good time together... Tuesday evening I got to see my dear childhood friend Maria and we had a nice catching up time over some evening snack...

Maria :-)

I also got to spend more time with my cousins Eva and Catrin. Catrin (Titti) made lunch for us on Wednesday and I finally got to meet her boyfriend Kalle. :-) We had a really great time together! I also experienced the most strangest thing ever in the kitchen there as I was wipping some wipcream... all the sudden as I was gonna add some sugar and mix it the mashine started going by itself (at least I have no clue if I pushed some strange button) and the cream went flying all over the kitchen... the "wipping machinge" got stuck in the bowl... We were all really surprised and shocked cause none of us really understood what happened. But it all ended happily with no injury, just a big laugh and some cleaning...:-)

A funny picture of the sisters...

My dad and my sis...:-)

I am so thankful for my wonderful friends and family and it has been amazing to have this vacation and just relax and see people!!! On Wednesday evening Hanna had her first cell group at her place. So I got to be apart of that too and I met Aami for the first time and Matilda, that I have met a few times before...:-) We had a nice evening together and it was great to get to know the girls, these wonderful sisters in Christ! :-)

Cell evening... Matilda, Aami and Hanna...

Now I am back in Tartu after having travelled 8hours with 45kg luggage (5bags)!!! I travelled from Helsinki with Eeva and Joona, and it was so great to see both of them again! :-) So now I am here settling back in Tartu and getting prepared for the Spring term!!! It is wonderful to be back here again and I am excited for what this year will bring!!! Life with Jesus is sooooo exciting!!! Praise God!!! :-) :-) :-) :-)

Vacation in Finland...

Last Tuesday evening I arrived in Finland... I stayed at my sister Hanna´s place in Helsinki until Saturday. It was great to see her and spend time with her again... I must have been exhausted, because the first few days I slept 12 hours each night!!! :-) It was great that I also got to see and spend time with my cousins, Eva, Titti and Elin.

Titti and Hanna...

Eva:-)

On Thursday evening we played volleyball with some other Christians at one of the Churches in Helsinki. It was fun times... The on Friday I got to see Julia and we went for a long niiiice walk along the water... It was sooo beautiful and amazing... :-) Always great to go for walks and talks with friends... :-) Friday evening was a baptismal and worship night at Fila Church and it was a POWERFUL evening!!! God´s presence come sooo strongly and the worship was totally amazing!!!
Friday Worship Night... Pastor Kenneth Grönroos preaching.

Saturday morning there was Women´s Brunch at Fila. It was such a wonderful meeting... Women together talking over a cup of coffee and snacks, worship, background music, some preaching/sharing and prayer... It was sooo good...made me really miss Hillsong Women!!! :-) It´s great being a woman!!! :-D

Women´s Brunch Service...

Matilda and I... We were in the same prayer group at MVV and now we met again...

After that meeting we headed back to Hanna´s place, just in time to quickly pack and then Elin and I jumpped on a bus to Sibbo, where there was a youth conference... I then spent the time there undtil Sunday afternoon. It was great to meet people I haven´t seen in a while, and also to meet new people... :-) After that I jumpped on a bus towards Liljendal, where I then I arrived just in time for the cellgroup... And again it was great to see all the people... :-)

Some relaxing time between the service at the Youth Conference at Betania...

Tomas Forsbäck preaching Sunday morning...

Now after the weekend I have had time to just relax, read, go for looong walks, listening to worship and teaching, seeing some friends and relatives, and "my fredax girls" when we went to the Jesus Revolution concert...:-) so it has been such a great time to just be able to recharge and relax... Praise God!!! I am gaining strength for the spring term...:-) I am sooo inlove with Jesus, and God is just sooo good and faithful and wonderful and amazing, and all the other wonderful words in the world!!! There is just not enough words to praise Him!!! :-) We serve an AWESOME God!!!

Powerful weekend!!! :-)

Last weekend Tom Jensen came to Estonia with the team- Ruben, Calle and Fredrik. It was a wonderful uplifting and intense extended weekend! Friday there was youth meeting with the guys preaching... The Holy Spirit was moving in the meeting, touching people´s lives...:-) How wonderful is the Holy Spirit when He comes and speaks and does things in people´s lives! There is none like our God! Saturday was Tom Jensen´s seminar from 11-15. It was as great as always! :-) Inspiring and equipping...and lots of laughter...:-)

Friday youthmeeting... Ruben preaching and Julia translating...
Snacks and fellowship...

After the seminar there was a musical in our church- "The miracle in Vostok". There were many children from the Christian school that were apart of it, and even though I didn´t get to see all of it, what I saw was sooo good!!! :-) I really would love to see the whole musical one of these days!... Anyways, the reason I didn´t see all of it was that we split up in two teams, one team went to Põlva and the other went to Viljandi for youth meetings. I got the privilege to be the driver for the Viljandi team. Andrus, Ruben, Benjamin and I went to Viljandi and had a great evening there! Ruben was preaching and it was such an amazing worship and again the Holy Spirit moved wonderfully in the meeting... The other team in Põlva (Calle, Fredrik and Dima) also had a great time (so I heard) and they got to play basketball after the meeting with the youth...:-)


Viljandi youth meeting...Ruben preaching and Andrus translating...

Sunday Tom was preaching and we had another wonderful meeting... Again he used illustrations, as you can see on the pic...:-) Lots could be said, but just shortly-it was good and powerful:-)

Illustrations, illustrations... :-)

Sunday afternoon/evening I also went to Põlva were Tom and the team had another meeting... I have never ever seen Tom being soooo on fire, or preaching with more energy than then!!! Talk about some serious duracell!!! :-) It was an amazing meeting... :-) It was so great being in Põlva again... such a wonderful passionate church! It is always so encouraging to see the changes and growth... :-) God is good! :-) After coming back from Põlva we had a movienight with some youth and the norwegians at my place... It´s always so great having people over! It is such a blessing with friends- sisters and brothers in Christ! Talk about blessing! :-)

Tom preaching in Põlva and Eino translating...

Movienight at my place... :-)

Monday I still got some time with Tom and the guys with shopping and lunch, before they headed off to the airport... Then in the evening we had youthleaders meeting... It was powerful with some serious prayer!!! It is so great to serve God side by side with all the wonderful youthleaders! I am excited for what God wants to do this year in the youthwork! It all starts when God gets to do His work in us and change us!!! :-) God is sooo good!!! :-)

Exams and life...

This time of the year-January- is the exam period at Uni, so the weeks after New Years were some hectic ones with many hours of studies... That is also one of the reasons blogging didnt get any time...he he... but hey... the 2 ½ first weeks of Jan was books and books, and more books, and some movie nights with friends, walks, late nights, Meelike´s birthday, church, cell and other cool things also took place... so yeah, now when the exams are over it is just such an amazing feeling of freedom...It was the strangest feeling ever to be able to TOTALLY relax after the last exam!!! I have again been soooo grateful and thankful to God and He has again showed Himself faithful! What a God we serve!!! When we put Him first ALL other things also fall into place!!! :-) Hallelujah!!! :-)

Some of the Beautiful cellgirls! Love you guys!!!:-)

Emmi and Kristiina...

Meelike´s surprise birthday guests...:-)

Meelike- the Birthday Girl!!! :-)

The wonderful family-Hannes, Johannes and Getlin!

An overview of MVV and the New Year

The tradition has become to be at MVV or Midvinterveckan, which is a New Year´s youth conference/camp... It is always a place where the Holy Spirit gets to do so many wonderful things in people´s lives...it is always so great to hear all the testimonies at the end of the camp... This year was really great as well and it was so amazing to have a little "Hillsong reunion" as Faith was there to do the digital vidio workshop and all the filming during the week, Trine and Adrian came from Norway and had the worship and choir workshop and they were also involved in the worship-so great!!! And the the Åsviks were there of course...:-) so it was just so great to see all those guys again...And it was amazing to see both old friends and get new friends and so on...a very blessed time...and amazing praise and worship, prayer and teaching...:-)

Lots and lots could be said but I´ll let the pics and the movie clips say the rest... :-) We serve an AMAZING and AWESOME GOD!!! :-) He is sooo good and wants to flood our lives with His blessings!!! SO be prepared for the most amazing year so far!!! God has so much in store for your life!!! Just spend time and soak in His presence!!! He is longing so much to spend time with you and spea into your life!!! :-) The best is yet to come!!! :-) Hallelujah!!! :-)

Trine and Adrian singing an amazing song!!! You can feel the anointing!!!:-)

Morning meeting...


Evening meeting...

Lunch...

Faith, Hanna, me, Trine, Adrian and Maria:-)

The Estonians... Raimo and Regina...:-) They are so cute!

Wonderful sisters in Christ! Eeva and Anna:-)

Mikey, Joona, Elisa and Anna...The happy family!:-)

P.s. here are the links to the film clips from MVV on Youtube...

MVV Countdown: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O38IBEA2T8w

MVV 2008: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--dfR3CK8sc&feature=related

An overview of Christmas 2007...

The Christmas is such a wonderful and blessed time together with friends and family! This Christmas we had the honour and priviledge of having Faith staying with us! It was such a great time and so great to see her again! For those of you that do not know her, she is a cool Canadian chick that now lives in Denmark teaching at a teenage Bible school. We met in Australia at Hillsong College and we were neighbours there... :-) So it was wonderful to meet again and spend some time together! We had so much fun! (As you might see in some of the pics..) We were singing Christmas songs in the car while driving to one relatives house to the next... :-) Christmas time reminds you of the wonderful people God has placed in your life. Friends and family-they are all a gift from God! And we are also reminded of the biggest gift of all- Jesus!!!:-) But Christmas also reminds you of the loved ones passed away...this Christmas was the first Christmas without our beloved aunt, who passed away 10 months ago... This really makes me think how important it is that we really take the time and show our thankfulness for all the wonderful people God blesses us with in our life... God is so good!!!

At my cousins´ place...

My wonderful parents...Håkan and Nina...

Decorating the Christmas tree...

Christmas lunch...

He he...girls just wanna have fun...;-)