She then moved to Knutby, where she  lived with the Waldau family, whose young son Patrik (born 1975) she had befriended in Uppsala. They married in June 1994.
In 1985, Åsa Waldau had one month's theological training in a Pentecostal bible school in Stockholm. In 1990 Waldau (then Björk) was hired by the Pentecostal church in Uppsala as a children's pastor.