Where to start. I was born in Tooele, Utah. My whole family have been members of the Church for generations. When I was around nine years old, my family moved to Alaska. We first lived in the Fairbanks area where the harsh winters drove us South--we moved to Anchorage where I attended high school. It was about this time that I started to understand what the gospel is. From there we moved to Soldotna, Alaska which is a commercial fishing town on the Kenai Peninsula on Cook Inlet. Our ward in soldotna was really interesting--half of the members were commercial fisherman, so I got to go out with them to fish.
From Alaska, I went into the US Air Force, did basic training at Lackland AFB in San Antonio, Texas and then tech school at Shepard AFB in Wichita Falls, Texas. I was stationed in Southern California for nearly four years. After I separated from the Air Force, I went back to Alaska and then was called to serve a mission in the Argentina, Bahia Blanca Mission--from one end of the earth to the other. For part of my mission, I was in the Tierra del Fuego from June to December--the dead of Winter. I loved my mission as my testimony of the Gospel grew a great deal, saw the Lord bless me beyond belief, and had great success.
My then girlfriend waited for me while I was gone. When I returned home from my mission that August, I moved to Virginia (Washington, DC suburbs) to continue dating her. We were married that December in the Washington, DC temple. Right when we got married, I was offered a job on Capitol Hill to be an aide to US Senator Frank H. Murkowski from Alaska. After a few years of politics, I went back to college at the University of Virginia where I majored in Spanish language and linguistics and did a pre-medicine core. While I was at UVa, we adopted our daughter Madeleine. She is now ten years old and very artistically and athletically inclined. After graduating from college, I was accepted to medical school in Southern California. During my third year of medical school, we adopted our son George who is 3 years old, but is as big as his 6 - 7 year-old friends. We were sealed to both of our children in the Washington, DC temple. Since graduating from medical school, I am in my second year of anesthesiology residency here in Jackson, Mississippi.
This is a quick run-down and I look forward to getting to know you all. Sorry I have to run, I am on call and my trauma pager just went off--we have a gun shot wound coming to the operating room that I need to put to sleep.
