Few days ago with Mirjami we celebrated our one month anniversary. It has been amazing and busy month and in this email we would like to share with you what has been happening and what is ahead of us.
So one month ago we were preoccupied with final preparation for our wedding day. After doing everything that we could with big and small details we decided to enjoy our day and not allow small things to bug us. We ended up having a beautiful wedding. Beautiful, bright sunny day, friends and family, amazing church ceremony, simple and fun wedding reception and celebration.
Here is a link to some of our wedding pictures:
Unfortunately we didn’t had a chance to go on a honeymoon but instead our last week in Kemi, Finland was filled with final goodbyes, organizing Macedonian night on which we shared more about Macedonia and our ministry there and on the end two Sunday services.
We were able to spend 5 days in Helsinki at Mirjami’s relatives before we departed for Budapest. In Budapest we spent 2 days and we were able to see friends from YWAM who were not able to come to our wedding.
We had long and tiring van/bus ride from Budapest to Macedonia but we were both excited to finally arrive in Macedonia, and to start decorating our new home, house apartment for which we gave down payment beginning of May. To our surprise we found the apartment in same condition as we first saw it back in May. We discovered that the owner didn’t just repaint the apartment even though he said he would but also after one day of rest we start discovering that some of the kitchen appliances were not working as it should and other appliances issues in the bathroom. I had a talk with the owner but he didn’t want to meet us half way and do his part of the deal so after just 5 days we decided to move out with no money being reimbursed.
We went for two days to my hometown and September 3rd we went to France attending a friends wedding. For both of us this one week trip came in at the right time because it gave us a chance to relax and not think about issues back in Macedonia even though we both were getting pretty tired with traveling, living in suitcases and sleeping in different beds and places.
Since September 10th we are back in Skopje Macedonia. For now we are staying at the Church that we are part of.
We are looking for a new apartment and have a potential place that we need to check next Wednesday.
We also have a lots of legal paper work that we need to do; all of Mirjami’s documents including our marriage certificate need to be translated to Macedonian and notarized. We need to legalize our marriage before the Macedonian laws. Mirjami needs to apply for new passport with her new last name. And once those things are done we will apply all of our documents for Mirjami’s residence permit.
We would appreciate your prayers that the whole process of submitting the documents for getting residence permit will go without problems because without the residence permit Mirjami would be able to stay in Macedonia only for 3 months which will mean that we need to move out.
We are slowly getting involved with our ministry time here. We already lead one of the House of Prayer worship/prayer nights and this coming Friday we will lead it again. We are trying to schedule our time wisely between getting legal things done and ministry but sometimes it’s so hard when you don’t have a home where you can just rest and relax.
Please be praying that we would find a place to live by the end of next week.
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