I just got back from Colorado on friday night. This was an amazing time of intense training to better equip me for for work in Latvia. The training was better than I had ever imagined it could be. There was so much God was working in me through my time there showing about conflict resolution, stuff about myself, learning a deeper understanding of community.

We just started then next section of the mission training. This class is a 3 week session that is called splice. Splice seems to be dealing with community issues and how to reslove conflict between one another. As many of you may know the number one reason for missionaries leaving thier county that they are ministering in is due to conflict with fellow missionaries. Thank you for your prayers during these five weeks of training.

Let me give you alittle background about myself. I had the opportunity to go on a mission trip to Latvia with my High school group when I had just graduated high school this was in 2003. Well this trip was amazing but, I was truly just the beginning of things to come. Going in to this trip I was not thinking about this mission trip as anything really amazing. I think when I sit back I was going more or less to check out Europe God totally began to rock my world when came serving him. Well I went back as an intern for 2 summers in a row. As I was serving as an intern God was showing some amazing things just about ministry, himself, and the importance of serving him everywhere. In 2005 is when I really started toying with the idea of moving and doing minsitry within Latvia. I was to comfortable of where I was in my life I was content on doing short term trips for the rest of my life. well that’s not what the Lord had in store he was and is calling me move to leave everything all my securities and truley learn what it means to follow after him. Last year when I went as a leader with the high school group that is when the Lord made it clear to me that he wants me in Latvia. I had a good conversation with Scott one of the missionaries in Latvia well he began talking about the need for more missionaries and where he could use me. I could not just ignore this converstion I had so I began to pray and process through this for the next couple of months. then I began going through the process of joing Josiah Venture and this showed me that this is where God wants me.