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Blogger drives me crazy.

I am trying to upload a "donate" button onto this blog through paypal, but for somereason it will not work, any suggestions? This way people can easily donate to my outreach for YWAM. Help!
Naturally,
Demi

Why I chose to do a YWAM DTS...

Hello again! I'm going to tell you all about why I am doing a YWAM DTS in the first place!

Well, let's see here...It all started with my awesome Uncle Tom and good friend Jessica. Uncle Tom has been all over the world as a missionary and is actually in New Zealand right now. My Uncle Tom has had a huge influence on my life by the way he lives his life. He had done a DTS on the Kona base himself and loved it and always told me all about it, so I've always had a good impression of YWAM Kona. My good friend Jessica is only my age, but lives a life worthy of the calling to which we have been called, so I greatly value her opinion. (so anyways..) One day I'm driving in the car with my good friend Jessica, telling her all of my problems (as usual). It was the beginning of March and school was getting out in June. I was a graduating Junior (i took a bunch of homeschool classes along with public school so that i could graduate early) and had no idea what I was going to do the upcoming Fall. All I knew was that I had a strong calling towards missions and I definately did not want to go to college yet. So Jessica, being the thoughtful friend that she is, suggests I think about doing YWAM. I did not like this idea because I wanted to do something solo, and I knew that YWAM involves being on a team. But, again, I value her opinion, so I took it into consideration. As we were talking I got a call from my Uncle Tom, who I had not talked to in like three months, so I chatted on the phone with him, even though I was still in the car with  Jessica (only because she is so sweet and realized how rare an oppurtunity it was for me to talk to him). I told him about my big problem and he thought about it and asked me if I had considered doing YWAM. I wanted to laugh and ask him if he was in cahoots with my friend Jessica, but the seriousness in his voice kept me from it. I told him I had and that I would pray about it. A couple of weeks later I was praying and just chilling with God and I mentioned the YWAM thing, and immediately there was great peace in my heart about it and this knowledge that I was supposed to be going in that direction. So I took that as a, "Yes, go," from God, and started filling out applications for the DTS in Maui. For those of you who don't already know, Kona and Maui are not the same thing. Kailua Kona is a city on the big island of Hawaii and Maui is a smaller island just to the left of it. There are YWAM bases on both islands but the Kona base is the largest YWAM base out there. I did not care about the size because I just really wanted to go to Maui, I had been there two years prior, loved it, and actually met a bunch of YWAMers there. Including some of the leaders who are on the Kona base now. So I decided that I was going to apply to the Maui DTS instead of the Kona. It took me around a month to get everything I needed to apply for the Maui DTS and then I was finally able to send it in completed. About a week later I get a call from a lovely woman from the Maui DTS site saying she had received the application! I was estatic, but my joy was soon destroyed because after she said that, she also told me that she had noticed my birth date and there was a problem with it. I was born on March 4th, 1994, making me 17, this specific YWAM base only takes students who are 18 or older (for insurance reasons). My heart sank, "But Lord, I really thought you wanted me to go after this?" But the Lord is good, and had other plans in mind. I asked the lovely woman if there were any other YWAM bases that took 17 year olds and she said yes! Where?- I asked, "That, I dont know," she says. So I got off the phone with her and did a little of my own research. And found out that the Kona base took 17 year olds! No strings attatched! It's funny, because before I applied to the Kona base I asked the registrar peeps THREE times (all seperate emails) if they were sure that they accepted 17 year olds who were born in March. :) So here I am, getting ready to pack my bags for Kona. Who knew.

If you're are interested in doing a DTS with YWAM Kona or are just curious to what it is like, check out this website: University of the Nations

If you're interested in what the Compassion DTS in Kona is like (the one that I am doing) click on this link:

Compassion DTS Sep. '11

And if you're REALLY curious, here is a link to the type of stuff I will be doing everyday during the lecture phase of the DTS (in Kona):

A Day in the Life

Preparing for YWAM

(^^^me being excited^^^)

So I will start YWAM in 28 days and am extremely nervous. In a good way! I just made the first "rough draft" of my packing list so I can revise what I do and do not need. I have been praying that God would be preparing me mind and body so that I can live this experience to the fullest! Please pray this also for me! I have to put in my first deposits into my lecture phase of the DTS tomorrow, so that is a bit exciting, even though I will be two days late on that...I will be posting how a came to decide to do a DTS with YWAM soon, so stay tuned!
Naturally,
Demetria

Just made this blog!

Hello everyone! I just made this blog and am super excited about it because I am not very good at technology but I managed to make this!-so enjoy! Here is where I will post my thoughts, experiences, ideas and etc during my YWAM experience. Please feel free to follow me with your email so you can see when I make new posts! Thanks much!
Naturally,
Demetria