I have continued to be busy lately. We have had classes on Nehemiah, Revelation, Leadership, Relationships, Communication, and Organic Agriculture. As we get guest teachers we will have different short term subjects. For practical education I have been working on the farm, specifically the greenhouses. I have learned how to plant many plants and all about different things like grafting tomatoes, keeping cucumber plants growing vertical, the properties of soil, and the one I'll use most in the future would have to be weeding. Yesterday I spent four scorching hours pulling weeds in a plastic covered greenhouse, but I had some good conversations with people, so it was good. We are starting to get into a groove here at EBS. I wake up at five or a little earlier, have devotions, take my shower, walk or sometimes get a ride up, have breakfast at 6:45am, small break then classes until lunch at 1pm, then practical education in the greenhouses, dinner at 6pm. People hang out for awhile then go to their dorms, sometimes I play ping pong, study, or go on a walk or something, and finally to bed at around 10pm. I have been doing my own personal study on the origin of the Bible canon, it has taken me quite a while and I'm still working on it. This last Sunday the EBS students took us WFLs to this forrest area where we played a game called "God's Smuggler." Basically it is like capture the flag or cops and robbers, one team would try to get the "Bibles" from one base to another. It was fun, a bit cold, but we warmed up quick. I tripped getting chased by a big muscular guy who works on the farm named Hans, quite appropriate I think; I tripped, and he tripped to and fell right on me. That evening they had a special program kind of for the WFLs, we had this mystery food thing where they had a list of weird things like monkey, iceberg, toe, sunshine, etc., and they were all some real food like olives, homemade ice cream, garlic cloves, salt, etc. I soon figured out what was the ice cream and got a bunch of that, it was healthy. So that has been the update...

It's been a week, I wanted to post a few days ago, but I was pretty busy. Since getting back from Sweden we have had our official classes. This last week we had Gayle and Bill Clark from Miracle Meadows School in West Virginia come and teach. They taught about active listening, being assertive when being pressed to do things morally wrong, conflict management, knowing God's will for our lives, how to have a balanced life, the power of thinking, and the four temperaments. I really enjoyed their classes. They would teach us about some of these and then we had to demonstrate how to use them effectively whether it be conflict management or how to be assertive. I worked in the greenhouses here at EBS with tomatoes and cucumbers. Getting the plants ready to plant, by putting stabilizing sticks with the plant and fastening them to it with a small ring, I did that for four hours straight a couple of days. I did some other stuff like hanging plastic twine to the tomato plants so they could grow up straight, supposedly they will get eight or ten feet tall, so they have to be stabilized that way. We found that there was a ping-pong table in the guys dorm, so it has been getting utilized. I got slaughtered by a Swedish guy, like 5-21, bad news. I have been staying busy going to classes meals, work, chores, and then getting back to the dorm at about 7:30 or 8:00, and I've been trying to keep up my own personal log of everything, a bit more detailed than this blog unfortunately, it would take forever to type! This weekend I ended up staying up till midnight or later and waking up at five, I'm kinda tired. On Sabbath a few of us took a walk and I thought I'd have a quick nap...

Back from Sweden... Well, I'm back from Ambassadors for Christ here at EBS, I just got in. It feels nice to wear shoes, I'd been wearing my flip-flops all week because I forgot my shoes here. Bummer, but I survived. On Friday we as a WFL group had the day off. We all went to the rocky beach and took some group pictures and just walked around. It was nice to have a free day, it seemed as though every day was packed with something.On Friday night, Sabbath, and Sunday we heard from Sebastian Tirtirau and Scott Moore. Sebastian has been going to remote areas in the Amazon, far north in the Arctic Circle, and to the deserts of southern Africa reaching people with the Gospel that have never heard the good news. Scott Moore has been preaching this whole past week about various topics, the last one on how to trust in God completely. It was a great week, though quite full. We left early this morning at 5am to walk half an hour lugging our suitcases and stuff to the bus station. Eight hours later we were back in Oslo, Norway from Sweden. Then we took a train to a small town which I don't know how to spell starting with an H, near Skotselv where EBS is. And here I am!

Trip to Sweden... We had to meet the van that would take us to the bus station early in the morning, so I got up and made sure I had everything, and met outside of our dorm at 5:30 to go. The van pulled up with the girls and their stuff already in it, us three guys rolled out and threw our stuff in. I ended up looking like I had brought the most stuff, but I compacted my belongings quite nicely and it didn't appear that way any longer. I got the cold seat right next to the door that doesn't shut all the way, so I had the gusts of wind to keep me nice and awake the whole way to Oslo. We got there and we took the bus all the way to Malmo, Sweden, with a transfer and a break to let excess weight go... It was an eight hour trip on the buses. I sat by myself and to keep it that way, I would set my backpack on the seat next to me and look like I was digging through it, it worked well, I could see the longing looks for my seat, but it remained unoccupied, I'm exagerating of course, there were plenty of seats. We waited an hour at the station waiting for someone who knew how to get to the church we would be staying at. She came, a girl who had decided to go to Sweden and work with Lifestyle TV there instead of continuing on Witness For Life. When we got there they [Lifestyle TV] were recording a doctor telling how to put on a health expo. I was starving, make that ravenous, since we really didn't have much food in the way of a meal, then all there is is tomato soup. I was disappointed. We then went to the evening worship meeting where Scott More was preaching, and being translated for the TV. Everything here is translated one way or the other, though 90% of the Sweden population speaks English. We then found out afterwards what we WFLs would be doing as part of the program. We would be cleaning bathrooms, preparing all the breakfasts, and helping out with the evangelism. Since that first day we have been attending the morning worships, along with our other duties, passing out flyers advertising the Health Expo, then working with the health expo doing the various booths. The last two days I worked in the exercise booth checking their pulse and having them do the step test. It was kind of interesting getting those who do not speak English at all and then having them do the various stuff, but it all worked out. I've had fun doing that work, then they get invited to come to the meetings the church and the TV station will be putting on, but the Health Expo, though it helps them realize their own health and what they can do to better it, it opens a door that otherwise wouldn't be there to have them come to the meetings and learn more about Christ.Last night we had the first official meeting and several guests came. We all here have handed out about 15,000 flyers, so the word is getting out, along with being on television. There are about 30-40 people here helping out, so it is interesting getting to know people from here. Well, I must go, I'm having quite a bit of fun here, and I will continue to try to keep this thing up to speed.