Festinord



Festinord  - means "Party in the North" and is an annual Conference for Young Single Adults (ages 18 through 30) held in the Nordic European Countries each summer.  This year it was Norway's turn to host it.  It was held in Vollen Norway just outside of Asker and 600 young adults from all over the world, but mostly Scandinava gathered to share friendships, good times, sport and strengthen testimonies.  It as been occuring now for over 50 years.  It started out as all youth ages 14 & over but changed to age 18 in the late 70's.

 We were blessed to be a part of hosting it.

We had a group of 8 from Kristiansand and Arendal that attended, and were able to meet 4 from Tromsø.

Beautiful location and setting for the event









Sister Cook with Stian, Sarah, Hannah, Naomi, Benjamin & Atle

Creative Dance night




Ewe (far left) with friends dressed for Creative Dance

Alexander (Tromsø)

Ready to feed 600 hungry youth

Dad with Elders Jenson & Castle

dining hall quickly reset for a devotioal

Elder & Sister Naylor (Trondheim)
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Tromsø YA - Ingeborg & Johanne - we knew we were being transfered North but they were unaware so we were just trying to make friends.

Boat cruise on the Oslo fjord 




Captain of the ship

Elder & Sister Naylor

Elder & Sister Castle in foreground and Elder & Sister Kelly (Gøteborg, Sweden - MTC with us)

Brad Wilcox & Al Fox Caraway - Featured Speakers and Devotional Presenters



Inger Sofie (far right)







Preparing for sport

Kristiansand YSA took 2nd overall in Dodgeball


Kristiansand YA took 2nd overall in Volleyball







Norwegian YW took 1st place in Futball (Soccer) 3 on the team from Kristiansand & 1 a RM who served in Norway from Moss that was just released prior to the event (Sister Elise Horgmo)






Hannah kicking the wining goal as time expired in overtime.

clean up pretty good from  sport for the evening dance and dinner

Torjesen family - Hannah, Benjamin, Sarah



Ingeborg, Johanne & Inger-Sofie

Inger-Sofie

Alexander

Ingeborg & Johanne


Senior Missionaries serving in Norway -
l-R back - Jenson {Bergen); President & Sister Tew; Castle (Stavanger); Jensen (Oslo Office)
L-R Front- Naylor (Trondheim); Cook (Kristiansand); Bergquist (Oslo)

Evenings were beautiful




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