How I ended up in YWAM

It started with a desperate call out to God after some trying times. I was in a very lonely and depressed place after a four year relationship had just ended. I was laying face-down on the floor in my room, crying, and I did something I hadn't done in a long time...I prayed. I prayed for God to take my pain away. I prayed that he would heal me, that he would change my life... and guess what? He did! In a HUGE way.
The next day a friend that I hadn't talk to in about a year, called me out of the blue. I told her about the problems I had been having. She asked "can I pray for you," and I agreed. After she prayed for me, something told me to ask her about the "D.T.S." thing that she had done with that "YWAM" place she had gone for a while. I liked what she was saying, so I decided to check it out for myself. After I looked into a couple of places I landed on the San Diego Baja website. I got accepted into the school about three weeks before it started. I needed about 3100 dollars in less than three weeks. This would be my first of many times that I would see God provide in incredible ways. It was if God had been just sitting there, waiting. Waiting for me to call on him so he could carry out his "plan," as if he had everything in place, all the pieces lined up, just waiting to be set into motion.
I had no idea what to do about money, so I asked what any reasonably intelligent person would do...I asked God and my mom. They helped me put together a yard sale with donations from our church and family friends. I know I know a yard sale. Kinda cliche but what else could I do. I prayed that God would bless the yard sale and help me raise the money I needed. I figured that if I came up with the money that that meant I was supposed to go. We planned on starting the yard sale around 7 but at about 6:30 people started showing up. By 7 we had made over $100. At the end of the day the yard sale had made $1100 dollars. I also received matching funds from a Lutheran financial company. $2200 in one day... not too shabby! In the next couple of days I received $900 dollars in the mail from friends and family...exactly 3100 in less than a week. I guess I was supposed to go. So two weeks later I left for what would be my new life with God.