Likening My Life to the Apostle Dieter Friedrich Uchtdorf (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781523693092)

Ilyan Kei Lavanway is a Christian author, married, and father of a Down's syndrome son. Brother Lavanway earned a Master of Science degree in Space Studies from the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics from the University of Washington, Seattle. He served two years as a full-time missionary in the Argentina Buenos Aires North Mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He served on active duty in the United States Air Force for almost fourteen years, fulfilling non-flying operations assignments as a Minuteman-III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) launch officer, crew instructor and evaluator, early warning and space surveillance radar officer, and various academic roles including classroom instructor and curriculum developer. As a teenager and into his early twenties, Brother Lavanway was an avid private pilot. Brother Lavanway is a passionate student of the scriptures and enjoys pondering deep subject matter regarding man's eternal potential, the cosmos, and the workings of God.