Hi, I'm Kensie!

My parents raised my three sisters and me outside of Atlanta, Georgia where we learned to love Jesus, traveling, and of course, basketball. My family has loved traveling my whole life and we have been so fortunate to be able to see many parts of the world. Another big part of my life that started at an early age was my desire to be a nurse. Stemming from my own health issues and a near-death experience, the Lord took this pivotal moment in 5th grade to manifest a passion that would eventually lead me to my career as a critical care nurse! All of this is important too because these desires also led me to meet Wesley.

It was my last summer off before I graduated from Auburn University's College of Nursing and I ideally wanted to do two things with my summer; practice medicine and do it some place beautiful. From this, I applied to dozens of medical internships, volunteer opportunities, and summer jobs all over the country. One of these applications being for the medical intern role through Younglife. Long story short, the first email I received back was from Malibu Club wanting to interview me for the medical intern role. I couldn't believe it, and I definitely was trying not to get too excited. I met with my boss Jenni who eventually offered me the position in my second interview two weeks later. It was one of the easiest "yeses" of my life. Six months later, I packed my bags and flew by myself to British Columbia, Canada not knowing a soul. You can also keep in mind that the six months leading up to this, I was very excited to get out of the country and be on my own for the summer. In fact, my roommates and I intentionally pulled up the GroupMe of interns to look at the profile pictures of the boys and make sure there weren't going to be any distractions... but I think my exact words at the end were "That Wesley guy has potential". Well fast forward and I was on a small boat headed to the Malibu Club and I saw him on the dock in work pants, boots, and a hat waiting to unload our bags and I literally said under my breath "oh crap...". Sure enough, he shook my hand that day on the dock and the rest was history.

Hi, I'm Wesley!

I was born and raised in Yakima, WA, where I grew up being involved in Young Life, playing soccer for club and school, and being very involved in high school. I come from a slightly smaller family, as I am an only child and even an only grandchild on one side. All that being said, I was raised by some of the best parents, grandparents, and family friends. There are a number of different people and families in my life that I look up to and am so grateful for, as they were second parents or like siblings to me. After high school, I went to school at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, UT (Sko Utes), and just graduated a couple of months ago. At the U, I studied Finance and minored in Accounting, while spending a lot of time in the outdoors. I love to ski, fly fish, camp, and do all of the things Utah has to offer. This is just a little bit about me and how I grew up, but I'm always willing to share more!

Also, just to clear anything up... Yes, we Northerners have most of the things y'all do in the south, like running water, football fields, or chicken (okay, we don't have Waffle House or Buc-ee's, which are two of my potentially top 5 favorite establishments).

In the summer of 2023, I had the opportunity to volunteer and do Summer Staff up at Malibu, a Young Life camp in British Columbia, Canada. On Summer Staff, I got to serve on Trash in the Maintenance Team, where I absolutely fell in love with it and knew I had to go back the following summer to intern. My parents dropped me off in May 2024, I got up to camp on one of our boats, the Skook, and met Miss Kensie Pierce the next day on the Inner Dock. I shook her hand, grabbed her luggage, and got back to work. It then took a couple of weeks during pre-season for Kensie to realize I liked her. Even after early morning workouts with her, sitting next to her at countless meals, and visiting the infirmary a little too often. After many late nights of burning, leading to little hours of sleep, walks to the outer dock, and surprise coffees from Hamiltons, all of a sudden, I was booking a flight at 3:00am in the middle of the summer to go to Auburn, AL, in just a couple of days as her plus one in her best friends wedding. At said wedding, I knew one person and spent more time with Kensie's parents than Kensie that whole weekend. We traveled back to camp together to finish out the summer knowing that this was the real deal. We soaked up every second continuing to get to know each other, making the best memories with all the other interns, and not taking our work views for granted. The unavoidable end of summer eventually came along so I finally asked her to be my girlfriend.

W&K

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