Probably should write something:

Well what is there to say...it's still snowy...had two blizzards in 3 days... this week...that means alot of snow added to what was already a huge pile! Life otherwise keeps on ticking by...I have been doing a paper-round for a couple of weeks as a way to generate a little cash. I had one job offer last weekend but having been to visit the farm we came to the decision that it was too far away (about 3.5hrs from Jyvaskyla) for not really what I wanted to do. It was pretty much all cow work...feeding and milking and virtually no real tractor work to speak of. So yeah we turned that one down. But there is another possible one in the pipeline...me and Jersey (well Jersey mainly) have to translate my CV into Finnish and a few other things and I may well have a job driving tractors...but we shall see. God is good and he will take care of me and provide me with the job he wants me to do...however it would be really nice to get back behind the wheel of a tractor again...even if it is a New Holland!!! Anyway time to go to bed now

Apologies for the lack of posting.

Sam

2 weeks have gone by...

and I'm still in Finland! And it is still snowing, more then ever actually, it's practically a blizzard out there. But hey God is good is he not? He promised that While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease. Is that not good???

Anyway you may or you may not want to know what is going on in my life, so I'm going to tell anyway. I've settled into my flat fairly well. I can't say I'm overly impressed by the cleaning abilities of my flat mates...infact I'm pretty disgusted but such is life. Living here is probably keeping me a bit fit, it's about a 20 minute walk into town where Jersey lives so I've been getting a bit more exercise then I may otherwise have done...and forcing your way through the snow adds to the health side of things. Nothing yet on the job front despite sending off a lot of CVs and stuff, however this time with nothing to do has not been wasted at all...

God has really been teaching me a lot about him, and about using my time wisely for him. I think when one is in there normal home it is so easy just to let time pass, and not to really use it for God. There's always the tv or the internet, or if that gets boring you can always find a friend to see. However being out here, without many 'friends or even a tv has meant I've had to think about what to do, and I've realised that I certainly havent been spending anywhere enough time with God and because of that I've been missing out on so much of what God can give me. So I am really trying to spend more time with him and in his word. And as I a result I am really learning so much. So praise God. Trust and obey the song says, for there is no better way. And how true is that!