CHAPTER 9
Connect Your Work to Service
Lisa Hallett met her future husband, John, when she was in kindergarten and John was in second grade. All the way through school, they knew of each other, but were separated by two years—an eternity to a kid. Then, when Lisa was 15, she and John ended up on the same church mission trip building homes in Mexico. One day after framing seven houses together, Lisa fell in love. “I came home from that trip,” she told me, “and I told anybody who would listen that I was going to marry John Hallett and have his red-headed babies.”
They began dating in college when John was a senior at West Point and Lisa at UC Santa Barbara. They enjoyed a whirlwind romance before John graduated West Point in June of 2001. Three ...
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