What a summer, in many ways that is. Here in Norway it's been fairly wet, the rain has shown it's best side - but we've also had some nice warm sunny days in between. =)
But the best part of the summer, was my time in Africa - surprised???
On the 24th of June a handfull of Norwegians left with high expectations to Africa - we flew from differnt cities in Norway and met up in Frankfurt. From there we flew to Johannesburg South Africa b4 we flew to Pemba Mozambique. Fantastic!
The first weekend we were there we went out on a bushbush outreach. Interesting as always.
We got into the camions, pakked with stuff that we needed for the trip, tents, sleepingbags, food, cups, plates, breadrolls, jam, coffee, teabags...... etc. There were also some students from the missionsschool and some local students from the bibleschool. Lots of fun driving to the place where we set up our tents. It was almost dark by the time we got done setting up the tents, and then of into the village to show the Jesus movie. There were many hundres of peple present, some probably had never seen a movie before. After the movie someone shared a testimony and then we had a time of praying for the sick and for salvations.
The story I want so share with you is with a lady that came forth for prayer that first evening. She had been disturbed in her sleep since she was a little girl, and was now in her late 30/early 40. We prayed for her, and told her that she should come to where we were staying and tell us how she had slept then next day. Then we continued to pray for more ppl. The next day she came, and ..... YES she had had a peaceful sleep the whole night. Glory to God. She said she wanted to get to know this Jesus and that she wanted us to come to her house and help her get rid of the stuff she had there. A group of us went to the house, and burned all the witchcraft stuff she had. To honor her husband she had asked persmission to do that, and he said she could take care of it - because he had seen that she had slept through the night without disturbance for the very first time since they had been married. Another miracle!
Another cool thing with this family, is that her mother is still living -that is also out of the ordinary since the average age for women is 38. =)
Then on Sunday - she got baptised!! Only God can do such things in such a short time.
Another story tha
t I would like to tell you is when I met Eliza. She is a girl that lives with her granny and her older sister. I went with a friend of mine to visit her in their village, where we were welcomed into the church where they had sang some songs for us. Then they had some gifts for us, and we went to their house. There I gave Eliza a bag, a capulana (raparound skirt) and a box of juice. The smile on her face was the best ever. Isn't she gorgeous??
I also spent some time with my good friends in Pemba, which was a true blessing to c them again and hang out.
Then back to Norway after spending some time in South Africa with yet some good friends - how blessed I am.
And now I'm back in school out on the field in a nursing home to get some practical work woven into the school. The practical period is for 7 weeks, then it's back to school again and have an exam in October.
This has been yet another summer, but with many more memories to share with others.
