Update!

Since returning from Mundri, South Sudan I have gained employment with the Florida Department of Transportation as a Professional Engineer Trainee in Tampa, Florida. I am living at home with the parents which is good (free food) but also awkward at dinner parties after you tell them about how much you love playing Xbox and watching Star Wars. All jokes aside, I have also gained a new fiance, Heather Heath, who was so faithful to let me leave her for six months to go to South Sudan. We plan on moving in together (silent fist pump as I write this) to an apartment in Tampa after the wedding and honeymoon to St. Lucia (double fist pump!)

As for the future, see below...

1) Get married on September 27th of this year

2) Sign up with a mission organization (a little biased towards Serge, previously known as World Harvest Mission, the group I went with to Mundri, South Sudan)

3) Get out of Dodge (or Florida) and on to Africa!

These are the desires of my heart right now, but I know God sometimes has a great sense of humor by sending me to places I didn't think I would ever go. My mission now is to line up with His mission for us (Heather and I) to glorify His name above our own.

South Sudan Update

If you follow the news you would know that things have been a bit rough for the country of South Sudan. However, the friends I have who live in Mundri, South Sudan are unaffected by the fighting that is currently going on in South Sudan. Regardless, my friends are not without heartache, much of which I feel equally. A great friend of our water engineering team, James, died at a very young age (30ish?) earlier this year. In a talk with the Water District manager, Kenneth (who is coincidentally James' older brother), it was apparent that many of the boreholes that we fixed in Mundri were once again broken and in no sight of repair. These things made my heart very heavy for the people of Mundri and especially South Sudan. If you are looking for people to pray for definitely keep them in your prayers.