I was born in Colorado Springs, but my loving parents moved up to Parker, Colorado, and raised me there, along with my younger sister and two younger brothers. I've spent most of my life at Ave Maria Catholic Parish in Parker, and attended STEM School Highlands Ranch my last three years of High School. I began discerning the priesthood after a few wonderful retreats, particularly a parish youth mission trip to Kansas City, Missouri, and I am currently in my second year at St. Gregory the Great Seminary in Seward, Nebraska. Please pray for our bishop, our diocese, all my seminarian brothers, and myself.