Soooo I've put this off till finals are done and figure it's time to introduce myself. I'm 20, I go to University of Colorado at Boulder and major in engineering and just finished my sophomore year.  For fun I love hanging out with friends/family and having adventures, playing just about any sport, and hangin out outside in beautiful boulder. I grew up in a Christian home my whole life and my parents were great in instilling in me who Jesus was.  I accepted Christ when I was little pretty much just because my older sister did; I didn't know what it meant besides my parents were into it. When I got older I started playing hockey and really started to love it. I would go to church if it didn't conflict with hockey and I wouldn't have time in the word because I didn't have enough time with hockey. Hockey, sports, having fun, and living for myself was definitely the center of my life. Senior year of high school God seemed to give me everything I had been striving for in my high school career and yet I still wasn't satisfied. Looking back this is really when God started working on me and breaking me for him. I started making some bad decisions and going after the wrong things. This continued into my freshman year at CU. One night right after Halloween freshmen year God really started to work on me. I decided to crack open my Bible and he began revealing himself in some crazy ways. The verse that really hit me was Hebrews 12:1 that says "Therefore since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles...." That night I decided to recommit my life to Jesus. What I was missing this whole time was the Lord of my life part. I didn't trust Him that He actually had the best, most fun and most fulfilling plan for me. I went from an intellectual understanding of who Jesus was to actually trusting Him and giving Him my life. After I took this hard first step I would never ever go back. God has put so many awesome people in my life and has given me so much joy after I finally gave my whole life to Him. It's not fun and games all the time but I would never go back and do anything without God anymore. After freshmen year I did this summer thing with a campus ministry here at CU. It was designed to get the participants to grow closer to God and it was stinkin amazing.  I learned soooo much and met some amazing people. I could never summarize what I learned in a paragraph but one of the main things was simply learning how to have a quiet time. I never realized that God wanted to draw close to us besides on Sunday mornings. I also learned how to share the gospel with other people in a not weird way. One of my favorite versus that came out of that summer was Romans 12:2 "Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is-His good, pleasing and perfect will." God has been great this past year by bringing awesome people to me and letting me see Him work in Boulder. There were a lot of choices for this summer, but I felt like God wanted me to do this missions trip. I've never been on a missions trip (and I don't speak Spanish) so I really don't know what to expect, but I love adventures and I know God wants me there this summer so I can't go wrong. I can't wait to see God's faithfulness and just plain awesomeness this summer in Nicaragua!! Can't wait to actually meet all ya'll !!

  

  

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