 What's your favorite part of today so far? "We got to spend some time relaxing. I really like making lists and I got to organize a bunch of information and put in into bullet points and stuff like that. I also got to hang out with my team leader* and some of my friends. I got to know people better." *Raechel was interviewed during a Mexico Outreach service trip. Cuernavaca, Baja California, Mexico
 What's your random piece of advice? "Stay humble." Cuernavaca, Baja California, Mexico
 Who do you want to meet? "I want to meet so many people, but I would like to meet our founding fathers because I'm in American Government right now and I'm learning how controversial our government was and how everyone had different ideas. So I'd like to interview them and tell them what our government is like now to see what they think of it and see if it's actually what they envisioned or if we just totally screwed it up." Cuernavaca, Baja California, Mexico
 If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go? "I've been around the world already. I think I've been to 14 countries, but I wish I could go back to South Africa. I would live there. Love the country, miss the people. I was only there for like three and a half months, but it felt like I made a family there and I miss them. It's like living a long distance away from your family." Cuernavaca, Baja California, Mexico
 What do you do for fun? "Video games." Cuernavaca, Baja California, Mexico
 When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? "Honestly, I don't know what I wanted to be when I was a kid. It was probably like a soccer player or something because I played a lot of soccer at the time." Cuernavaca, Baja California, Mexico
 How did you meet the most important person in your life? "I met the most important person in my life at Azusa Pacific University in my first class." Indio, California
 What are you most proud of? "I'd probably say I'm most proud of where my life is now because I've faced a lot of complications and challenges in the past. Overcoming those and getting to where I am now is a pretty good thing to be proud of, I would say." Cuernavaca, Baja California, Mexico
 What's one of the scariest things you've ever done? "This is when I was really young. We went hiking in Bryce Canyon, I think it's in Utah or Colorado, and I'd never seen lightning before. I went into the canyon with my family. There were so many lightning strikes happening and it was all very overwhelming as a child. Every second, I was in constant fear that either me or my father were going to get zapped by lightning. I've lived a very tame life, so that's the coolest it gets." Cuernavaca, Baja California, Mexico
 If you were to write a book, what would it be about and what would it be called? "If I were to write a book, it would be about a girl who's trying to find a sugar daddy and it works out for her, also known as my future autobiography. It would be called Take Me to the Candy Shop: The Sweeter the Berry." Azusa, California
 What have you learned? "So much, honestly. I would say that something that is really on my mind is how much I desire knowing different and new cultures, other than my own. Whether that be heritage, religious, or food culture even. Things like that. I very much desire learning, in that regard." Azusa, California
 What do you need to make time for? "Being alone and especially being alone with God because I'm definitely around my soccer team, my mission team, my friends, and classes a lot. I find it difficult to find alone time because when I do go home, it's normally late at night and I just want to go straight to sleep. Like with anything else, you have to be intentional about being alone and also about being alone with God and taking advantage of that time. So I have to work on that." Rancho Cucamonga, California
 What's beautiful to you? "Wow, that's a loaded question. Out of context, just beautiful? I think soccer is beautiful. I think a sunset and a sunrise are both beautiful. God's grace is beautiful. I think friendships are beautiful. Yeah... yeah." Rancho Cucamonga, California
 Can money buy happiness? "Some people think it can. Money can buy things that make you happy, but I don't think it can buy happiness." Fawnskin, California
 Are you a good person? "I want to say yes, but no. I try to be a good person." Fawnskin, California
 If you could change one thing about the world, what would it be? "I think I would change that... that's a good question. I would allow more people, every single person, to walk in the way that God intended them to live." Fawnskin, California
 What gives you hope? "I think even though we see so many problems going on in the world, seeing how active and excited our generation is about fixing those problems and addressing them in new ways gives me hope that we're still going to be able to fix and help better things even if there's still sad things happening." Fawnskin, California
 What's on your mind? "Right now, what's on my mind is my team and how we're just really excited about going to South Africa. We're the biggest team that theCenter for Student Action has ever worked with at 36 people. We're going to South Africa, and it's going to be great." Fawnskin, California
 Where have you been? "Where have I not been, I guess. I mean, in a very existential sense, I guess I've been a lot of places in my readings and my studies and things like that. Maybe that's the most fun I've had, traveling through that. But I've also been to Mori, India. India is a beautiful country. Crazy place, but beautiful country. That's where I've been." Fawnskin, California
 What is something embarrassing that has happened to you? "I don't get embarrassed that easily is the problem, so I'm really bad at answering this question. I can't think of a particular time... oh wait, I do have one! It happened when I was in second grade. So I have two brothers and they're the worst, but I love them. My mom had given me this heart shaped journal and I wrote on the back of it that I liked Dylan Michaels. He was a babe. Second grade, man. My brothers told everyone at my school. They opened it and read it and I cried because I was so embarrassed. My eight year old self knew that Dylan Michaels knew that I like him." Fawnskin, California
 Who do you want to thank? "I would like to thank my mother. I'm a momma's boy. Am I allowed to thank both of my parents? Is that a thing? Great. I'm going to do that. I'm going to do something generic and everyone does that, but that's okay. I'd like to thank my parents for shaping me from a young age with a Christian worldview. My mom says that God has no grandchildren. I like that. It means that just because my parents are Christian doesn't mean that I am a Christian. They pushed me in the direction of Christ and they always did that. You know, that's the best thing about my life and I would like to thank them for that. So thanks mom and dad!" Fawnskin, California
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