Sorry this is like 2 months late, didnt notice i never got it out....


Ok to start off, wanted to inform you of where I am. I am in a hotel in Seattle and its like 4 am. I left Iceland 5pm Iceland time. Landed in Seattle 445pm Seattle time. (went back in time- weird) and had to run to catch the denver flight that took off at 550…. Got there THREE minutes late. THREE minutes!! Gates closed at 540 and it was exactly 543. Pretty discouraged. But I was with my friend Toni who has been in Iceland to and we had been praying all day that we would make the flight. And secretly I thought I knew that we would never make it. But then she said something on one of the trains that made my mind change. She said, what is prayer without faith? She is totally right. So I changed my mind set and went go to the gate, we were actually way closer to making it than I thought we would ever be. Then I realized God was just slapping me in the face. He totally revealed to me exactly what Toni said. What is prayer without faith? I thought that was really cool. So, by that time it was about midnight my time and exhausted. Had to get a shuttle to a hotel across the street and book a room. Crashed in bed at 7 o’clock Seattle time and about 2 am my time. I woke up at 1130 pm Seattle time and totally ready to start my day! It was about 830am Iceland time and my body is so used to getting up at that time. So for that past like 5 hrs I have been wrestling in bed and now just wide awake. Haha. Its 4 am here! Funny funny. Prayer is becoming more and more important to me. It has always been there, but never to this extent. I have developed these habits when I’m walking to the bus or through downtown in Iceland that I just pray and think and talk to God. It’s awesome. He just wants to know what’s up. So why not tell him. Haha. This last month has been especially focused and narrowed down on faith for me. And what perfect timing for God to slap me in the face then on the last day of my travelings to make me 100% sure of how important prayer and faith go hand in hand. One won’t work right without the other.

But…. This last week has been great. I landed home from Poland on Monday night. Uh sort of a mix up at the airport that was really frustrating. Toni and I mixed up who was picking us up from there. My family dropped off and hers was supposed to pick up. IDK things just didn’t work out. –but it was all good. We took a bus into Reykjavik which then we had to connect onto Straeto to get back home. Worst part of that was that I was on the first buts and drove literally right past my backyard. I mean I could see inside my house, but had to pass it. Then had to stay on that bus for 30 more min, switch buses and ride another 45 min… so I was RIGHT THERE but couldn’t get off, talk about frustrating. Anyway, had a lovely dinner with the family then off to bed! Tuesday I headed into Glaetan that Christian café and hung out with a few of my friends there. Then my friend Beta picked Toni and I up from there and we went to her sister’s saloon and …. And I CUT MY HAIR! Yup. It’s virtually all gone. I think I cut like 10 inches or something. Really short. I have always said I wanted to do that, so decided to do it while in Iceland. But, I haven’t told anyone and home and pretended my skype camera didn’t work so no one at home knows… it’s going to be a cool surprise. Then that night helped Eric St. Clair sort of with the Tuesday night dinner things that he and his wife Kati put on. Kati was outta town so Toni and I kinda helped out, maybe, a little. Eric and Kati are the couple that live about Glaetan in a really cool loft. Really awesome couple, with an incredible testimony. They’re awesome! But every Tuesday night they make a dinner for 10 or 15 people and just have fellowship with whoever shows up. They just have an open invitation and love it when new people come, old people come. Just totally open and really cool. Wednesday I spent a lot of the day just hanging out with my friends and sort of saying goodbye. Cook Steinar Mac’n’Cheese. Went to the big church tower with Stebbi. Stopped by Colby and Annie’s place but missed them. Just sort of making my rounds saying buy to people. I wasn’t much of a fan of that. I am really gunna miss these people. At around 2 Toni and I took Eric out for a lunch and that was my goodbye because I knew I wouldn’t see him again. Its hard saying bye to people. I really honestly am not a fan of it. But, just means that we will have to meet back up someday in life! Excited already for that day to come! That night I spent time with my handball team. We went to café aroma for dinner and just had a nice time together, eating, talking, joking. It was really fun to be with everyone, but not the best when we had to say goodbye. I will really miss those girls as well. They became girls that I really enjoyed spending time with as well and got to know pretty well. So I know that I will most definitely have to meet up with them again someday too. They had practice at 9 so they all had to go, and I cant remember what I did actually… o well. But I do remember that about 1030 I sat on the coach with Tomas to watch some futbol and feel asleep in a second! But I was awaken around 1115 by the doorbell. 4 girls from the team came to the house with 2 sweatshirts and a jersey. I guess coach Aegir was going to give it to me but I didn’t make it to practice. That was really really nice of him. I got one Haukar sweatshirt and two Icelandic jerseys. Really awesome! Thursday was really fun for me. I packed some in the morning then went out around Hofnarfjordur and just went shopping and touring the things that I always wanted to do but never got to. I went into the Viking Hotel. I passed that 3 times a day and never went in it, so I did. And just sort of had a relaxing day taking the bus places and spending time alone. I had said my goodbyes to pretty much everyone by then, and didn’t want to have to do it again. Haha. Got back home around 2, and because it was thanks giving day my family decided to celebrate it. So Erla, Anna, and I began cooking at 2 and didn’t stop until about 730. It was really fun to spend time in the kitchen with the ladies cooking. We actually pulled off a pretty decent thanksgiving dinner. Not too shabby if you ask me! The whole family sat down together and ate. Grams and Gramps too. Then after dinner around 10 Erla and I went for a walk in search for some mountain grass. A while ago on a hike we got some and made this really good tea with it. So I wanted to get some to bring home to bobby because I knew he would love it! We spent like 2 hrs in the middle of a cold windy night searching for this stuff, finally got some and then in 2 min at the airport it gets taken away! Of course!!! I was sooo upset! That was bobby’s gift! So lame…. o well, that’s life right? But if it weren’t for that grass, I wouldn’t have learned what it’s like to pray with faith, real faith. So Toni keeps reminding me that if it takes a missed plane to learn a lesson like that, then it’s worth sleepless night in Seattle.
I don’t really know how to end all of this. There are way too many things to say and do and tell and describe from my time away. I have learned, changed, seen, and experienced so much. Too much probably! Lol. I really have enjoyed myself, to the max. I loved Iceland so much. I loved everything about it; to good and the bad. Both times I needed, and both times I learned something from them. If I could tell you everything I would, but I can’t. Now get me with bits and pieces, that I can do. So I guess this just means that you’ll have to sit down with me on more than once occasion and we can talk about life and how good God is. How does that sound? I cannot wait to be home and give all my friends the hugs and stories that have wished I could have been giving them throughout my entire time here. I am just so happy to be coming home, and more thankful than ever for the place I liv