“I love Haiti. It shapes who you are and gives you that hope. It makes you want to reach out to people. I went there to bless other people, but when I went there, they blessed me—I was changed completely.”
“What moment impacted you the most while in Haiti?”
“They spoke in Creole, so you don’t understand anything that is going on but my youth pastor spoke and he would say something and their pastor would translate it to everyone else. You would see different cultures, different skin, different language, and we still worshiped the same God. ‘Cheve' is hair in Creole and they pulled my hair and would say “CHEVE!” Five kids were chanting “HAIR! HAIR! HAIR!”.
The second year I went, we went to this orphanage and there was a little kid there and we instantly bonded together, he was 6 and so cute, name was Shoulio. We went back the next year and we went to the same orphanage and I was like, “Oh my gosh, I am gonna see this kid and I’m so excited. When I got there, I asked around for this kid and I found him. I was like, “Oh my gosh, here he is. Is he gonna remember me?” He didn’t remember me by looking at me, but then I had my phone and pulled up a picture of us and I showed him. He turned to me and his mouth dropped, eyes were super wide, and he latched on to me. We showed him that we do care and we are not people who just show up every once in a while”

“I crashed a four wheeler into an electric fence. I almost broke my mom’s ankle. I didn't want to drive it again, but Mom, after a week, made me get back on it."
"Did Mom get back on too?"
"Yep"

“The biggest struggle is having to rely on other people to do a lot for me. It bothers me to let other people do stuff for me”

"If you find any stray cats, let me know"

"I miss eating Chinese food with my family"

“I still don't know why Tommy, from "Rugrats", pulls a screwdriver from his diaper”

“Control yourself in college. If you are gonna let loose on anything, make it Nutella”

“Get your personality out there. I want to get to know myself and experience every bit of what life has to offer”

"The time when I'm happiest is when I am on the freeway in San Diego heading to the US/Mexico border for the first time each summer—knowing that I'm heading to a place that makes me the happiest for the whole summer. It always amazes me how a simple border can separate two completely different worlds"

“We met each other at Moody Bible Institute back before your parents were born, in 1948. Then we got married in 1950.”

“Do you have a crazy experience from when y’all dated?”

“Putting up with each other. That’s number one. Because if you put up with each other, then you can get the next date. We fuss a little bit”

“How’d you propose to her?”

“You know, I don’t know….” 

“I don’t think he ever did formally. He’s not that romantic”

“I am very romantic!!”

“He just hides it well”