Okay so this is how it really started... (FROM HER PERSPECTIVE)

We first met at a church conference in Iowa in the fall of 2019. I didn’t consider him as anything more than a leader at the conference. Honestly, my first impression of him was that he seemed like a strict person and came off as unapproachable. We didn't talk after that.

It was a couple years later that he visited Iowa again for the goodbye party. It was this time around that I noticed that he was actually more friendly and was easy to talk to. As the night went on, I was able to get to know him more, being drawn to the humorous side of his personality.

I messaged him first after that weekend. As we continue to text back-and-forth, I felt a growing desire to get to know him more and more everyday. I started to recognize in me that I had some feelings for him, mixed with thoughts in my mind that he could be the one. But I was unsure that he felt the same way. Though we did text a lot and that he even invited me to hang out together (he also drove out to Iowa to see me a couple times), I was still not getting any clarity on where things were. So I flat out asked him what was going on. He admitted he really liked me and thought all along that I was amazing, and proceeded to ask me out... on my birthday.

We thank God that He has brought us together for His purposes.

Romans 8:28