 Do you believe in magic? "I do. I believe it's what makes the world go round." Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, California
 How do you feel about regrets? "I feel that regrets... Well, I have a motto in my life that I don't want to have any regrets because I feel like regrets, they're things that you feel a calling to do, but you get too nervous for certain reasons and you don't do them. I think that being able to overcome that nervousness will help you avoid having regrets and help you live a fuller life." Azusa, California
 What's your favorite thing about yourself? "I feel like, generally, I try and strive to be morally upright to the best of my ability. That's what I like about myself." Azusa, California
 How are you trying to make the world a better place? "By preaching the word of God." Cuernavaca, Baja California, Mexico
 What's most special to you? "The most special thing to me is Jesus. The reason why is because Jesus is life. In Christ, you find truth, you find purpose, you find all the necessities in life. You realize that life is worth living. With Jesus, it's life complete. That's the most special thing to me." Cuernavaca, Baja California, Mexico
 What are you jealous of? "I'm jealous of other people's musical talent. As a musician in music school trying to get gigs, it's all about, 'Are you better than the next person? Are you better than that guy over there?' It's really easy to compare." Cuernavaca, Baja California, Mexico
 What's your most prized possession? "I guess I'll say my truck." Cuernavaca, Baja California, Mexico
 What is one question you've always had? "What would it be like if I could teleport anywhere in the world whenever I wanted?" Cuernavaca, Baja California, Mexico
 What do you want to explore? "I want to explore God's plan for me and for those around me, like my best friends. I want to see what God is looking for from us in the future and try to explore places that we might not expect instead of just things that we're good at. I'm just trying to explore different things and trying to listen to God's voice." Cuernavaca, Baja California, Mexico
 What's your story? "My story is something like this: Living through a lot of loss at a pivotal time in my life and trying to understand who I am and who I might be in the future." Cuernavaca, Baja California, Mexico
 Who are you jealous of? "No one. There's no one that I'm jealous of. Everyone is the same to me." Cuernavaca, Baja California, Mexico
 What's the best prank you've ever pulled? "I feel like others have pranked me well and that's all that's coming to my mind, but I guess the ones when I was young. I want to say this was when I was around 5 years old. My house was going under construction, so we had a bunch of maintenance workers and construction guys in the house. Basically, it was a complete mess. They were working on different walls and stuff, so I took advantage of that. I got my mom mad at something while she was on the phone and I thought she was going to punish me or something so I ran away. I went behind all the construction work and my mom, since she didn't really get too mad, went looking for me after she got off the phone. I kept going from one area to the other area. I ended up being found in the arms of a construction worker. It was so great. But that was fun because I was really scared and I was jumping around from one area to the other in the construction area. It was just fun." Cuernavaca, Baja California, Mexico
 What's one of the stupidest things you've ever done? "I used to do a lot of lighting and stage design stuff for concerts and musicals, stuff like that. One time, we were in a hurry and we needed to get a bunch of lighting up above the stage about 50 or 60 feet up in the air, so I climbed up there. I needed to put a light on one side and another light 30 or 40 feet away, but I didn't want to take the time to climb back down and move the scaffolding, so I just kind of walked across the top without any harness or anything carrying the lights. I almost tripped and fell off, so that was kind of fun. But I definitely never did that again." Cuernavaca, Baja California, Mexico
 Do people control their own destiny? "Oh wow, that's an intense question. It kind of encompasses all parts of your life: the theological, philosophical and what you believe about free will. I think in a way, yes, we do control our own destinies in that we struggle against things and that at one point, we can choose where we want to go and what we want to do. Often, that can be on the strength of God or the knowledge that in the future, no matter what choice we make, God will be with us. I don't know if that's a very coherent answer at all, but in a way, I think we do control the circumstances that will impact our future. Humans are creative in the sense that we have the power to create what we want. What a joyful thing that is." Cuernavaca, Baja California, Mexico
 What's the first thing you notice about people? "I think their smile." Cuernavaca, Baja California, Mexico
 What's the best decision you've ever made? "I think the best decision I've ever made was to participate in Action Teams at Azusa Pacific University and travel across the world to serve children from Armenia who are less fortunate." Cuernavaca, Baja California, Mexico
 What's your earliest memory? "My earliest memory is kindergarten. My second day of kindergarten. I kicked my teacher in the face, like no joke. It was my first time ever being away from my mother. The first day of kindergarten, my mother stayed at the school for some reason. Then on the second day, she drops me off and says, 'Okay bye, I'm leaving!' And I was like, 'What?!' After she was gone I was like, 'I don't want to be here.' So I started climbing the fence. My teacher was trying to get me down and while I was above her, I kicked her face. Then she got me down and I clawed at her arm, so she had red scratch marks down her arm. I was a pretty terrible monster on my second day of kindergarten." Cuernavaca, Baja California, Mexico
 If you could try a job for one day, what would you try? "Annie Leibovitz. I would want to have her job for like a day. Maybe a week or month or year. She's cool." Cuernavaca, Baja California, Mexico
 What's one of the strangest things you've ever done? "Do you want an insane thing I've done? Well, we visited Mayan ruins in Guatemala that only 300 people go to annually. To get there, you have to take an hour and a half long boat ride over a river that's infested by crocodiles or alligators. Whatever's in Guatemala. We saw them. They were creepy. We're in these metal canoes, like they're not even legit boats. They're metal canoes, okay! We get there and a storm comes in, right, and we're an hour and a half from civilization in these Mayan ruins. They're like, "You need to leave now. A storm is rolling in and it's going to get super dark." We had to get out of there. So we ran down to our metal canoes, we take off and it just gets pitch black outside. Our guides didn't bring any lights so we couldn't see anything. Then it started raining. It started thundering and there was lightning, which was actually really helpful. We thought we were going to die on this river, but the lightning provided enough light so the guides could see the river banks. We'd be zooming at 30 miles per hour towards this bank and then lightning would strike and we'd just turn the boat around. It was so nuts! I thought I was going to die that night, but I was perfectly content to die because it was crazy! So anyway, we got back safe and we just laid on the ground. And that's the most insane thing I've ever experienced in my entire life." Cuernavaca, Baja California, Mexico
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