The short story of the move to Taiwan

Well, I did my exchange study at a Chinese university from September 2024-January 2025, after feeling like God asked me to study Chinese six years ago. Since then it’s been a long walk, moving from my home town and my apartment and all my friends in Bryne to study Chinese full time in a new town Bergen in Norway, and then enduring a very challenging half year in China. 

When I came home this January I didn’t feel finished with China, but no doors would open into the country. I contacted eight missions organizations and applied to several jobs, looked at several private schools, until a friend of mine had a prophetic word to lay it all down and start anew and I felt God asking me to let go of China. 

The very moment I did (like the same day!) I got an e-mail from someone I’d written months before, telling me about YWAM in Taiwan and the chance to study Chinese there and be in missions. For the first time I felt real joy about doing something, everything with China had become hard. Well, I did my exchange study at a Chinese university from September 24-January 25, after God asking me to study Chinese six years ago. Since then it’s been a long walk, moving from my home town and my apartment and all my friends to study Chinese full time in a new town in Norway, and then enduring a very challenging half year in China. 

So then I just turned my life around and am leaving church, apartment, car, family and friends in Norway to start a new life (for however long it takes) in a new country. I still don’t know what I’m learning Chinese for, and I don’t have a heart for Taiwan, so it feels like huge steps of faith. But experiencing God’s love and goodness towards me these last years has made me trust Him in such a deep way. Like China was extremely challenging and “light and easy” at the same time, I believe I have everything in Him, and that the yoke He’s given me will be light to carry.