About me

Husband of over 19 years

Combat Veteran of two foreign wars

Father of 2

Faithful, Honest, Charitable, Persevere (battle tested)

April 2025: 15 plus hour days helping my wife push through tax season. Blessed our children are doing well in school and healthy.

I have hope that the Mercy of the Lord blesses me with this dream. There are many things happening all at once; I am humbled that so many people in different countries are cheering me on. I also thank God for giving me this cross, he alone took my dreams and magnified them.

This is a bit long from my journal entries. Enjoy reading:

Credit wise, I have been a college senior since 2011, and through strong faith & a summer study course in 2013, I tackled the MCAT on 2 hours of sleep (our daughter Anna, age 2 at the time would not fall asleep in the hotel room the night before). I scored higher than the national average, and found out later my score was hacked now showing a lower score. I was judged by a professor and not my Lord. They condemned an innocent man. Within the same fall semester, we were expecting the birth of our son (the next spring) his ultrasound came back showing a bad kidney and he could be born with some problems. I stopped school and stopped possible medical schools from scheduling me for interviews.

That spring while working I find out that I was accepted to the University of North Dakota and our son, Isaac was born 100% healthy. We drove to the high plains and in October we found a house in 3 days in the rural farmland.

My faith was tested & I was rewarded.

During 2016 summer, Lisa & I sat down and talked, it was getting harder to pay bills with me in school. Anna is in kindergarten, Isaac in preschool, we have a mortgage and she is the bread winner, which I enjoy admitting to anyone. I am very proud of my wife.

I, just like over 6 years ago grabbed this cross. I stopped school and found work. We both are providing for our family. I was approached by the dean of the medical school and he asked when he would get me as a student. I told him, instead of going to medical school, that I, with folks that I have yet to meet will build one in Wyoming, honor Lakota traditions and name it after Cana. He smiled and commented, “ That sounds like an impossible dream and right in your heart Frank”

In 2018 The Air National Guard in Cheyenne, Wyoming got a 1 year enlist from me, we found a good school for our children and moved to Wyoming Fall 2018.

July of 2019 I received a phone call and I was accepted for a position with the Head Start program from Oglala Lakota College on the Pine Ridge Reservation. We moved to South Dakota and I was even asked to interview for the Health Coordinator position. Many staff felt I was overlooked, but that was not a worry. The Program had a Washington DC inspection coming up and when I was in the Air Force, I liked inspections. If your doing your job, and your honest, there should be no worries. Our Health Coordinator was not doing her job and the Director asked me to medical screen the children knowing that I have a medical background. I said I would do it but I would take my time and do it honest. Which I did.

     With the inspection looming closer, I knew the Director was full of stress. One day with the weather, one teacher asked me not to make the drive as the roads were very slick that early in the morning. I pulled over in the parking lot across from the church we attend and I called the director. She asked me to get to work, and that she needed me to get into the computer system for the other centers on the reservation and falsify the children's health records. When I told her I would visit the centers and faithful screen the children, she swore at my faith. My eyes were gazed on the statue of Mary on the hill behind the church. I told her that you are under stress and I give you grace for what you just said, but I need to honestly do this for the inspection. She cursed my grace and told me that If I did not do as she asked that I could find a ( swear word) new job. My eyes moved up to the cross lit up on the hill, and I told her that grace is given to her. She cursed my grace again and hung up.

   The following day, I get a phone call from her asking if I left Rapid City yet and she told me not to bother, if I was not going to change the health records in the system, to mail my keys in and she hung up. Rather then letting sin enter my heart which would have me go home, and anger toward my wife and then our children; I came home told my wife what happened and said I'm going to 7AM mass, we have many small things to be thankful for.

I ended up working for a local nursery to help pay bills, then like the wind that never stops, Wyoming persisted, she was calling us back. We moved back in August of 2020 & In December of 2022, I graduated the University of Wyoming as an Animal & Veterinary Science/ Equine science major.

In August of 2023 We got everything up to the Bighorns and are living in Sheridan. The folks here like having a young Cowboy in the neighborhood, never needing permission, or stalling to lend a hand; not ever expecting a Thank You.

Still looking for the right section of land. Giving God praise for all the blessings.