I'm currently a student at the University of Toledo majoring in mechanical engineering.  Outside of class I have two jobs, one as a teaching assistant/grader and the second as an undergraduate research assistant.  I'm also heavily involved in Engineers Without Borders and our chapter is currently constructing a water pipeline for a remote village in Honduras so that they can have clean drinking water.  In my free time I'm usually catching up on sleep or hanging out with some friends. 

 

I'm a person who loves adventure.  This past summer a group of friends and I rented a house boat for a weekend vacation and it was a blast, mostly because something goes horribly wrong whenever we try to do anything.  In this case we accidentally crashed into a mountain whilst trying to perform a rescue of our friend who was on said mountain.  We keep things exciting and interesting.  Along with my love for adventure, I have a love for martial arts and I help teach with my friends back home when I'm not at school.  

 

So what's the problem with how I just described my life?  I never once mentioned how God is a part of my life.  I've been so focused on my career goals and current work that I've lost touch with the world outside of campus and outside of my life and most importantly, I've lost touch with God.

 

I realized this a few months back when my life was getting a bit rough.  Since that time I've been working to put God as the center of my life and trying to put His will before mine.  As a result I realized that I needed some time off from my life, away from my school work, so I could fully focus on God and build a stronger foundation for my faith.  Taking a year off would be meaningless if I just bummed around though, so I started looking for a way for me to serve God and in time God led me to this opportunity to serve as a missionary in Africa and I took it.  Before these past couple of months if someone had suggested to me that I should go to Africa as a missionary I would have looked at them as if they were crazy, God is literally turning my world upside down and I wouldn't have it any other way.