Dear Followers

Dear Followers,

I want to thank you for reading my blog. I also want to thank those of you who read it and decided to support me during my DTS. As you might have been able to tell, the DTS changed my life. I have figured out what happens next in my life so I'll let you know.
In September of this year, I hope to go back to LA, and do another YWAM school called Chronological School of Biblical Studies (CSBS) at the same YWAM base. This particular school is 9 months long, and it cost about $7500. Big number, I know. After CSBS, I plan on going to Paragon Culinary School in Colorado Springs, which is attached to YWAM and will give me the culinary degree I want, but also teach me a way to use the degree in a ministry-focused way. Then, depending on what God says, I will either move up to New York City, or move back to LA to work with the homeless. Either way, I'll be opening a cafe and cookie bakery. I'm just focusing on the CSBS right now, since it is in the near future. I have the job mention in the post before this on so I can start saving money for it, but doing the math, I probably won't have enough, just a little over half. If your church wants to support a missionary, suggest me, if you think it's a good idea.

Sincerely,
Madeline
The Writer of this Blog

PS. Here's the website for CSBS, so you can find out more about it. :)

http://www.csbsla.org/

Adjusting

I didn't think coming home would be this hard. But it was. I'm actually ready to head back to LA. I got the sample of living 'on my own' and now I definitely want to do it long term, for the rest of my life like every other college-aged person. I got a job, working at a medical supply company. I'm on a production line. It's pretty boring, but hey, it's a paycheck. And the people I work with are great. East Texas is still it's quiet, slow-moving self. I'm definitely a city-girl now. While In LA I learned that I had a slight Texas drawl. *Insert long scream here*. Scary. Not that a slight drawl is a bad thing, it just doesn't suit me.
I'm kind of an old friend visiting the family now. Don't get me wrong, the family's great, but after being gone for so long, I kind of missed out on a lot. The family dynamics are totally changed. I'm no longer oldest sister/second mother, which is cool, but makes it harder when the parents are gone, cause the sibs don't actually want to listen any more.
Well, that all I have to say for now so I'm peacin' out, yo.